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Women seem to be in a frenzy for clothes — they are buying four times as much dresses as they did 30 years ago, thanks to the growth of “fast fashion”, says a new survey.
But they are also binning a similar amount of garments each year, the survey in Britain found.
The buying frenzy has been fuelled by 10 years of falling cloth prices. This has only halted recently with a rise in the cost of raw cotton, it found. In fact, the average woman spends £133,640 in a lifetime on clothes and has 22 items she has never worn, the poll found.
Lucy Siegle, a consumer expert on BBC's ‘The One Show', who carried out the survey, says British women are buying more items but spending less on individual garments.
“We are consuming at such a rapid rate and throwing so much out you end up with a wardrobe that is devoid of style, elegance and wearability,” she was quoted by the Daily Express as saying.
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