Some friends might consider me a hoarder, however I really don't look on keeping a few boxes of clothes from years gone by as hoarding. If the clothing is in good shape, it will ultimately come back in style and I can wear it again - that is my view. And I have. Clothing that I had back in the 60's and 70's and early 80's was created to last - unlike the garbage that we buy nowadays whereby we're lucky if it lasts a few months. I actually have runners from back in the 70's that I wore for over 10 years, put them away, because I was wearing other type of footwear, and other than replacing the liner, I can wear them again now! However, I can tell you that I have bought a few pairs of runners over the past few years (because I couldn't find the others due to a move) and I'm lucky if they lasted a couple months let alone 2 decades of daily wear. One may say that that concept is not conducive to a financially sustainable company. Hog wash! The companies lasted fine and dandy back then - no they didn't have the 30% growth that the financial institutions and shareholders require now adays, but SO WHAT!!! They were sustainable! The clothing was sustainable! So now we have to pay for the unstainability of the 'throw away' clothing decades of the mid 80's to present day. Now add that price into the price you paid for the clothing, the contamination of the soil, water and air and the resulting health effects and the associated costs - now what you get is no longer the company with the 30% growth but more than likely, if it had to pay all of these costs and not the consumer and the public in general, the company would see a -40% growth or possibly more. We need to use lifecycle analysis when manufacturing clothing, when buying clothing, and ultimately when discarding it. Ultimately, growth above and beyond about 10% has negative effects somewhere down the line. We as consumers need to start demanding that our clothing be sustainable for the long term. We should be able to take our clothing (that is not suitable for good will), to a central recycling facility located in every community where it can be recycled/reused in some way. I recycle jeans and have made some other clothing and quilts from them, however there is still considerable waste cloth, not including the dozens of still good zippers. Why can't they be recycled? The fibre and accessories should be able to be used for other items. Sustainability is about a cycle - whatever process is occuring, it must always fit within the circle for if it doesn't, it expands the circle which is unsustainable, i.e. the world is only so large.