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> A clothing store only has so much space to sell things, so they cannot possibly sell every possible colour and shape you could possibly want. So of course there will be trending colours so that clothing stores will know what to prioritise. So if you're looking for a specific colour that is not a neutral one, you only need to check if it's currently trendy or not, instead of going through 10 different stores and being frustrated afterwards.
Huh? The obvious alternative is for each store to pick non-standard colors they stock and announce them very visibly. If you cared about colors, you could then go to the appropriate store(s) and save on the frustration.
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@robryk@qoto.org you'd also have the issue that not all colours are equal in demand, so there would be a whole lot more waste than if we just cycle through colours like right now and everyone that wants to has a chance to pick it up then but there won't be billions of cerulean coloured clothes nobody wants ever
@sugarbell
I don't get why you expect any difference there. If a color is less in demand, it's less likely to be trendy now, and there would be fewer shops stocking it in that alternative reality.
@robryk@qoto.org I think you really don't understand trends at all.
I have no spoons to explain the details of the trend cycle and fashion psychology, the classism in having "new" things being trendy and old things not, etc. to an ignorant person.
@sugarbell Why would they coordinate between themselves? In absence of color trends, they would be happy picking independently (and maybe changing it later on if they ended up colliding, because a collision implies an underserved niche somewhere else).
Good point about secondhand, but secondhand is anyway delayed enough that trends have changed a few times, no?
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@robryk@qoto.org in my city for example there is basically only a c&a, a vero moda and a h&m and some second hand stores, I am not sure how it would be possible to coordinate all colours on those few stores (and second hand stores are wild anyways)