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Could you give up buying new clothes for a year?
Lots of people are pledging this year to buy no new clothes. If they do, they say they are going to get them second-hand or make do with the clothes they have and mend the ones that need it. However, sales at online fast fashion websites like Boohoo or Pretty Little Thing are booming. Could you give up buying new clothes for a year? Peter White speaks to Lauren Bravo, a fashion journalist who's given up buying new clothes, and written a book "How to Break Up With Fast Fashion."
First broadcast on You & Yours, 10 January 2020.
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