Classism in Clothing?
How a divide is stitched into our wardrobe I recently got one of my favourite Vinted purchases to date: a pair of 2000s Victoria Beckham Jeans for £15. I don’t think a lot of the people around me understand the gravity of that, but I hope some of you readers might. I’ve tried them on countless times, just for the purpose of pairing them with my heels to pace up and down in front of a mirror, but noticed that on the inside, along the seams, it’s stitched with purple thread. I hadn’t noticed this in other jeans before, but when I then looked at the seams of both my other jeans, and those belonging to people around me, it was the only pair to have this. So if it’s not necessary, given that most other observed jeans were constructed just as well, why is it there? Surely that potentially increased the cost of production to change the colour of thread from a typical navy or brownish one along the seam, and despite the Beckham’s wealth, this cost isn’t necessary for something so minute…...