{"id":22152,"date":"2018-01-02T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/02\/why-are-our-wardrobes-full-of-unworn-clothes-because-most-purchases-are-not-rational\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:52:23","slug":"why-are-our-wardrobes-full-of-unworn-clothes-because-most-purchases-are-not-rational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=22152","title":{"rendered":"Why are our wardrobes full of unworn clothes? Because most purchases are not rational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often buy dresses for the people we\u2019d like to be, and hold on to things because they remind us of good times. But a new survey has revealed that UK shoppers own \u00a310bn worth of clothes they do not wearI am sorry to force on you thoughts of so many battles to come so early in the year, but here \u2013 in one neat package \u2013 they come: a new survey by Weight Watchers has estimated that shoppers in the UK own \u00a310bn worth of clothes they do not wear.As ever with these massed and massive figures, it does not look quite so bad when you break it down a bit. The UK shopping population comprises about 50 million of us, which works out at an average of \u00a3200 worth of stuff per person failing to fulfil its sartorial destiny. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/shortcuts\/2018\/jan\/02\/wardrobes-full-unworn-clothes-worth-10-billion-pounds\" target=\"_blank\">Why are our wardrobes full of unworn clothes? Because most purchases are not rational<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often buy dresses for the people we\u2019d like to be, and hold on to things because they remind us of good times. But a new survey has revealed that UK shoppers own \u00a310bn worth of clothes they do not wearI am sorry to force on you thoughts of so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}