Fast fashion, the trend of clothing producers replicating high-fashion designs and selling them at lower prices, has grown in recent years to become a nearly $100 billion industry, and some have criticized its consequences. The Onion looks at the pros and cons of fast fashion.
PRO
Privilege of aping TikTok teenager for 20 minutes
Fewer out-of-work child laborers
Probably makes Anna Wintour sad
Light, flimsy material barely weighs on conscience
Won’t be alive long enough to reckon with consequences
CON
Crop top already totally embarrassing by time you get it home
Harder to tell who rich and who poor at a glance
Sea turtles fatally trapped in last year’s fall fashions
Fucking button fell off
Body issues still the same
