posted 4 months ago
The Victorian period used to have great mills like this. At one time, something like half the clothes in england were from shredded cloth.
The reasons it went out of style are...
... poor fibre content labeling. Each time clothing goes through the mill, it gets shorter so a cloth could only be recycled in this way about 4 times. Things are much better now.
... TB and other pestilence was possibility spreading through used materials. Especially children's goods (notice how kids cloth now says made with all new materials). We have a better understanding of germs and abilities to sanitize to prevent this.
... because class consciousness was a big deal during the Victorian times, people didn't want to buy shoddy clothing.
Shoddy means cloth that has been recycled by shredding like we see in the video. It used to be very good quality cloth, but obvious. It made one look poor, so it fell out of fashion.
All these previous objections can work in its favour now. Just like laundry lines and mending cloth. It's long past tim for shoddy to return as a sign of caring and wealth.
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