The only time I ever get in Old Navy is when I’m with Leah.\u00c2\u00a0 Something about that store makes me uneasy.<\/p>\n
As I was standing near a table full of zip-front fleece jackets today at noon, I happened to look at the care tag on one of them.\u00c2\u00a0 Made in Nepal.\u00c2\u00a0 Nepal?\u00c2\u00a0 I pictured warehouses full of Sherpas sitting at sewing machines.<\/p>\n
And speaking of mountains….\u00c2\u00a0 As long as I was mentally wandering off to the far reaches of the world, I started extrapolating from the piles and piles of clothes in this one store in Iowa City to the piles and piles of clothes in all the Old Navy stores all over the world.\u00c2\u00a0 Just the thought of it started to depress me.<\/p>\n
So it wasn’t the flashing lights, crowded aisles, or blaring pop that was triggering my fight-or-flight instinct.\u00c2\u00a0 It was all these clothes<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 All the excess.\u00c2\u00a0 All these mountains of nothing made by people I’ve never met in a place I’ve never been.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m aware that most of the goods around me come from similar circumstances, but it’s different to be standing there in the middle of all of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Surrounded by it.\u00c2\u00a0 Cornered.\u00c2\u00a0 Trapped.<\/p>\n I’m a bad consumer.\u00c2\u00a0 I admit it.\u00c2\u00a0 And the mall is no place for a bad consumer this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The only time I ever get in Old Navy is when I’m with Leah.\u00c2\u00a0 Something about that store makes me uneasy. As I was standing near a table full of zip-front fleece jackets today at noon, I happened to look at the care tag on one of them.\u00c2\u00a0 Made in Nepal.\u00c2\u00a0 Nepal?\u00c2\u00a0 I pictured warehouses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-av","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}