Start your day off—like I did—by mulling over this fashion news tidbit: As pointed out in Vogue UK today, a poll collected by UK shop Debenhams revealed that the collective value of all British women’s unworn clothes totals over $1.9 billion!
Let’s do some fast, unscientific math, shall we?
a 2001 census of Britain shows that there are 36.1 million women between the ages of 16-59 (for the purpose of this we’re going to conveniently forget about the tweens and the retirees).
A US census tallies up the total female population in the states as being approximately 149.6 million strong.
Which means–if using the assumption that American women have the same shopping habits as the UK ladies–that there’s $7.873.6 billion in unworn clothes hanging around in the collective US closets–a staggering amount to be sure.
AND while the national debt hovers around an astounding $8.9 trillion these days, it’s worth suggesting that a national yard sale of sorts–where we could all unload our unused items—could cut out a substantial chunk if done annually. That’s providing that those who buy cast-off goodies, would wear them of course, otherwise we’d be back to square one.
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