Please visit us at http://www.Add1Vintage.com. Many of our vintage items will also continue to be displayed on Etsy.com.
We hope our new name better reflects our shops's mission and values. We believe that if every person substituted one vintage item for a newly manufactured item in their clothing everyday, the world's carbon footprint would be dramatically reduced.
Consider this: women who are 45 years old spend $750 billion annually on clothing. If we reduce that amount by one-fifth, $150 billion would be saved. By adding one vintage item instead of something newly manufactured to what each woman wears everyday, the raw materials, labor and environmental impacts of creating more new products would be dramatically reduced. That translates into far fewer raw materials being developed. Plus the lives of impoverished and abused adult and child laborers through out the world could also be improved.
Here are the details:
A recent chart by Goldman Sachs shows how much women of different age groups spend on clothes every year.
The groups of women in their twenties and thirties gradually spend more on clothes, peaking with the 45-year-old age group, which spends $750 billion annually.
Then, they gradually begin to spend less on clothes.
Goldman Sachs also includes examples of stores where women in that age group shop. Millennial women shop at Express, Gen X women shop at Express and Ann Taylor, and Baby Boomer women shop at Ann Taylor and Chico's.
Here's total women's apparel spending by age:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-women-spend-on-clothes-2013-11#ixzz2uTIaGMd2
