Analyzing The Strawberry Dress Phenomenon
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- čas přidán 30. 08. 2020
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“It’s a dress that Cinderella, a toddler, and an a-list celebrity would all happily wear”
Well if that doesn’t describe my entire fashion aesthetic...
Aha, two of my favourite clothing CZcams people in one place! ♥️
I was literally just watching your video before coming to this one lol
Comfy clothing with elastic waistband, typically with food/dirt on it. Yep. That’s me. 😁
(I’m picturing the A-lister running from the paparazzi, btw)
woo it u
I'm going to start using that as a guideline for the clothes I buy
I can't believe people are complaining about the price of a dress made by a small and individual company, when there are designer brands selling socks or a headband for thousands...
and we will not talk about another big brand selling ikea bags for a fortune
we really rely on consumption and being exploited to distract ourselves, i bet it’s just a result of everyone just feeling so empty ...
but yeah a lot of people are having plenty of audacity for such little support
I’m starting to think it’s because it’s on the cheaper end of designer? When you hear designer you expect it to be thousands of dollars, but this one is only around 500 bucks which is a lot more feasible sounding to average consumers. People spend much more on big ticket items like televisions or computers so they technically could afford to spend that much on it, but we’re so use to fast fashion prices on clothing that it feels like a farce and a lie it could conceivably cost that much. “Well if it’s a high end dress that’s less than 500 dollars, why not just sell it for cheap then?!? It’s only clothes!” The fact that something like this is closer to reach than an Hermès bag makes entitles people mad.
supreme t-shirt being a basic white t shirt for the price of 2 of these dresses
Yeah, I'm like where's this energy for all the designer brands making cheaper (materials wise) clothes by underpaid workers and selling them for significantly more? You don't see people throwing such a fit over $400 plastic Gucci sunglasses....
I cannot personally afford a $490 dress, but that doesn't mean the dress is not worth $490.
exactly ppl are confusing their want for its value
your comment had 490 likes
Yesss, exactly.
Same
Exactly! Couldn’t explain it better.
"We're too spoiled by fast fashion." Big fat YES
Totally agree!
Fast fashion has allowed the average person to change their wardrobe every season or every month... something that was once only affordable to upper-middle to rich folks.
They have this financial service called Afterpay in my country where you can buy stuff without paying first, with no credit card. You repay online in weekly installments. It has helped boost the fast-fashion industry.
@@jonathantan2469 and that can be good for people. Unfortunately that doesn't take into account the amount of clothing ending up in landfill, the amount of water used to produce the clothes or the low wages the companies pay their workers. It's not just about the clothes.
300 dollar for a dress by calvin klein? fuck that. 300 for a custom sized, cotton and linen dress made by a small individual company? yassssss
Jonathan Tan great, but the average person who lives in a town where the fashion is made works for pennies to dollars a day in awful conditions in one of the biggest polluters in the world. In the US, a lot of the “made in America” fast goods and clothes are made in prisons... it’s disgusting. Fast fashion has warped our view of clothing. There has to be a middle ground somewhere, between helping the average person culturally+socially and helping the most vulnerable among us not be exploited by the industry
I think it's a little strange that people are so outraged by the price. Yes. It is a lot of money, but a designer made it. We arent angry at Chanel or Prada for their prices
I am angry at chanel and prada for their prices and other reasons
especially since chanel and prada dont pay their workers a living wage
And i remeber being told that the people there make the fabric by hand, so in my honest opinion it's underpriced
Because they don't know this designer and therefore not worth it right 😂 let's face it, with prada and chanel you pay for the name and people use it as a flex.
@@Loveerta I mean I think everyone other than you here in this comment section thinks that it’s worth it because it’s high quality, it’s beautiful, it’s hand made and not mass produced.
There’s a difference between “that dress is too expensive” and “I can’t afford that dress”.
Exactly. Just because a dress is out of someone’s price range, doesn’t mean it’s unfairly priced. It takes people a lot of hard work and money of their own, so it only makes sense that the dress is more expensive than something you’d see in a fast fashion store
Totally
Yes and if you can't afford it, it's not for you, sorry
EXACTLY! If it were like $1500+ it would be too expensive.
This one is under $500 and it is gorgeous, looks beautifully made.
Can you buy this dress on aliexpress for $50? Sure. Will it be as beautifully made. Probably not.
I mean. I couldn't justify spending that much on a dress but I grew up really poor and have spent most of my adult life living pay check to pay check.
I still think the dress is probably worth the price.
Digital Minerva my friend bought the strawberry dress and yeah
It’s great
It’s beautifully made, flattering, really comfortable, and just a high quality dress in general
I think the rise of Cottagecore, especially on tiktok, is part of why it went viral. It feels all sunny and nature-y so it fits the aesthetic.
It literally looks like a Strawberry Shortcake doll from the late 20th century. I easily found an image of someone who made a Halloween dress with a similar cut at home, and thought it looked better. I think it's tacky in the wrong context or not worn in a very particular way.
This doesn’t feel cottagecore to me though. I felt so confused with it really. It doesn’t look like a nature inspired dress that you would think a cottage girl would wear. It looks manufactured. I don’t know. I don’t agree that it’s cottagecore, but maybe because I have a certain taste in that area
It's not
@dessieangel1021 Speaking as a cottagecore fan, I think it really locks in for me to the "extreme femme cottagecore" vibe that a lot of gay girls and, um, tradwife alt-right types like. Cottagecore femme woodland pixie is a very big angle to cottagecore. And also to the other group.
@@christinash2235 as a strawberry shortcake obsessor as a kid my brain immediately went to that and was like why is nobody else saying that?? Thanks for conferming that I am not totally crazy😂
TL;DR: The dress isn't overpriced we're just used to child slave prices
Child slavery prices are both 300 dollars for nike shoes and 20 dollars for a tshirt. Let's not pretend that expensive = ethical
@@tamaraaa993 Lirika actually pays her team a decent, living wage, well above the minimum wage in Kosovo. She gives her employees full benefits and has posted multiple photos and videos of her small team (all local Kosovo women) working with her and making the garments.
@@lar_s that's beyond discussion. I like her work and I don't think the dress is overpriced. It's not mass produced and it's basically handmade. I'm just saying that a lot of expensive and overpriced products are made in southeast Asia where labor is very cheap (compared to our standards)
@@tamaraaa993 Ah now I getcha. Also yeah you're right I probably should've addressed that, esp. because part of the very reason it makes me so mad when people complain about her stuff being expensive is that Supreme can sell a shitty mass-produced plain t-shirt for like $300 and no one bats an eye, but then suddenly when someone who's an independent business that actually treats their workers fairly sells their hard work at a correspondingly high price, suddenly people start accusing them of being greedy/exploitative of demand (while of course in reality they're actually being the opposite of exploitative and actually compensating their workers) just because "But I want it!!>:(" Like it's definitely fine to be bummed/frustrated if you personally can't afford it, like I certainly wish I could afford it, but if you take that out on her you're taking it out on the wrong person y'know? like really you should be directing that anger towards the system that MAKES it so hard for the average person to make enough money to afford that dress
@@lar_s should we be angry at the system for making it hard to buy this this dress? I’m seriously asking. To me this dress doesn’t look like an essential item or even an important one, it looks like a luxury. Which is okay. But luxury means you can’t buy it without sacrificing something equivalent in return, say by saving a while to be able to buy it.
I guess we can be mad at the system for having wages be so disparate between the higher ups and their most low employee. But then a perfect economy would have Bangladesh citizen earn the fair wage they deserve, same as every european and us citizen. Same with food itself, like I don’t doubt food companies currently try to lower the price by exploiting foreign workers or undocumented immigrants too. There’s a reason fair trade is pricier I think.
Idk, I want a perfect system same as everyone. But I also don’t think a perfect system would make luxury item such as this easy to obtain. To me buying such a dress feels like buying an original painting for your home or getting a tattoo: it’s nice, but this is a lot of time using skilled labor specifically or you, this labor demands compensation, and you don’t need it to function so (unless you can’t work I guess?) you can’t really justify having everyone pays a bit for you (like you can with healthcare or essential items). Meaning that to obtain this dress, you need to make a sacrifice equivalent to the labor and skill required to product it. So work and save. Which would still be long, but that’s okay because this dress is a luxury you can function without it.
But we are disconnected to how much work goes into the item we purchases, and the abuse of fast fashion had us feel entitled to every bit of clothes we see.
Honestly people making a fuss about this when there are ugly sweatpants being sold for thousands of dollars 🤦🏻♀️
Paulina Arango WHERE, WHERE! I gotta get me some! LOL!
_*yeezy has entered the chat_
This reminds me of czcams.com/video/eFYe4K-XG1M/video.html
*supreme entered the chat*
YES
Do you know the brand "vetements"
😖
Me, never seeing/paying attention to this particular strawberry dress:
Me, clicking on the video anyway because it's Meme Mom: *InTeReStiNg*
me, seeng InTeReStiNg and i immidiatelly hear it screaming in my head by TwoSet guys
bla blah same, i hear Brett saying it 😂
lmao same
You are a twoset and meme mom fan? Very cultured
I love how I run into twoset memes all over CZcams now
As someone who can sew I find it massively annoying when people show me something like this and don't understand why I can't just whip it up in a day for $10 bucks.
I agree. That material looks very pain in the behind to sew (if it's real silk tulle, it sure is) - not to mention the sequin strawberries. All the ruffles & gathering as well - lord. No way you are whipping that dress up in less than 4 hours, and that's a half-ass job or worse.
Then make it.
@@bellablow4287 Thin delicate materials are really difficult to gather evenly by hand. And if you're anal like me, it can take a whole weekend just to do the ruffles. I've made petticoats (Yes multiple. Never learned my lesson) out of shear silk. Took days just to do the ruffles.
@@sallylee4924 I use a ruffler foot, I can do 10 yards in no time
But I do spend over an hour untwisting the ruffle and pressing to get flat lol
@@bellablow4287 I wish I had a ruffler foot! Every time I tell myself, I don't need one, this is the last time I'm making ruffles.... And then I go and make more ruffles! > .
People drastically underestimate the pricing of anything artistic. Clothing, paintings, photography, etc. They often don't know the true price for just the materials and production and then completely neglect the time and effort required, not to mention the knowledge needed and all the time, effort, and maybe money needed to obtain that knowledge. And then artists are forced to either sell something for way less than its value in order to make at least SOME profit or wait it out in the hopes that someone will come along and actually pay a fair price.
Or most things that are handcrafted.
If it takes me 10 hours to knit item X, not many would be willing to pay for those 10 hours at the my state's minimum wage let alone the labor plus the materials. Then, the government will take a nice big chunk of it. Nope, I knit for myself and for fun.
Yes! It's like they completely disregard the years, the effort, the money and the patience it takes to master arts. Artists aren't talented, they're people who have worked and work their asses off to master their craft and create something beautiful.
And most the time we can't afford to wait for that one person to pay what our pieces actually worth. We gotta make ends meet too.
I know I do art and jewelry myself though as a hobby so I mainly paint for myself, family and friends who luckily understand how much time and effort effort it takes. Part of the reason why I do not sell my stuff is that you get next to no profit on it. I once read something someone had said that part of the price is also the many many hours the artist has put into learning the skills required to be able to do the art piece and sure the it might only take a few minutes or hours to make but at first it to way longer and the skills had to be learned.
A lot of choosing-beggars out there.
also i read that because of the "cottagecore" trend that's coming up, the strawberry dress is the perfect accompaniment to this aesthetic
Honestly, as a cottagecore lover, I don’t get it... it’s not really cottagecore. It’s just pink and fluffy.
Hear me out : an off-white/natural linen dress with tiny strawberries embroidered on it, with a cozy sweater on top.
@@mariek.474 yes yes yes yes yes yes
@@s.oftsoap i feel you there, it's more glam tbh
@@mariek.474 PLEASE WE NEED COMFORT
But like, people are buying prom dresses for 3x the price to wear it ONCE.
Yes! With the strawberry dress you can wear it pretty much anywhere.
Or renting it for that much.
And prom dresses are ugly af anyway lmao
Whats even the ponit of prom(Ive never went to prom cause is not common in South East Asia but I always see people talk about it on the internet and stuff tbh it sound kinda boring)
Weirdo Lunette honestly just going for free food and to hang out with friends. Sometimes there’s dancing but if ur shy like I am you’ll probably stick with friends and get some free slushees lol
My wedding dress was also designed and made by the same designer. I can’t recommend them enough! Gorgeous work, and considering everything was made to my custom measurements within 2 months and shipped a week after - I am so impressed. Worth every penny. These dresses have so much care and detail and quality.
Omg seeing all her other dress designs (and her sister's of course) I could imagine how good your dress looked!
They can make wedding dresses???? My dream woodland elf wedding dress might come true
@@your_dad_on_vacation I didn’t do a traditional white wedding dress, but they definitely have lots of fancy woodland elf formalwear that could be a wedding dress if you’d like! My dress was peach and made of tulle flowers. I felt like a fairy princess and I wouldn’t have had it any other way ❤️
@@your_dad_on_vacation check out her sister company, Teuta Matoshi.
@@kiyarolynn wow even if I never get married I’m definitely gonna get one of those dresses just to wear around the house lmao. For the feeling 😂
I think the root of the problem when people think ethical, high-quality clothing is too expensive isn't that the clothes are actually costing too much, it's that we live in a world where the average person is super under-paid. Granted I live in the US and I know it's not always like this in other countries, and lots of places have it even worse, but in a better world a person would probably have the means to save up the money for a dress like that in a couple of months, but sadly most of us live paycheck to paycheck and just can't afford stuff like that. The dress's price isn't the problem, society undervaluing and underpaying workers is the problem.
Part of the problem is that we've been conditioned to following fast changing trends. The individual items don't cost a whole lot so we don't think too hard about it. But because they are made fast & cheap, they just don't last long but hey, who cares, because that shirt is so yesterday. Textiles and clothing, even for the general population, used to be valued and expected to last for years. You might alter it to more closely match the current fashion but you didn't expect to toss in the trash after a year.
@@RudesMom I honestly can't speak to this because I grew up poor so I shopped exclusively at thrift stores and only bought brand new clothes once at the start of the school year, and even then it was only one outfit. And I wore my clothes until they fell apart. The idea of throwing away/donating something just because it's "out of fashion" sounds frankly insane to me. Honestly I still struggle to shop at so called "fast fashion" stores such as old navy/jc penny etc because I can't imagine being in a position where I could spend more than $20 on a pair of pants.
So yeah, my concern about purchasing clothes stems from growing up poor. I know that cheap fashion is bad, but I also know that I need to wear clothing. I want to ensure no slave labor or unsafe practices went into making my shirt, but I also Have To Buy Clothes. And I feel like there are a lot more people in my boat than in the "I can stay fashionable for cheap so I'm gonna just throw stuff away when it's not cool anymore" boat.
We need massive reforms in the fashion industry, but we need equal ones in social structure and safetynets and minimum wage so that products can be made ethically while not leaving people without options.
@@LookingForLoo The people complaining about the price aren't like you or I, who respect the value and cost of clothing and wear and repair our garments until they're only fit for rags. The people complaining are used to being able to buy clothes regularly and just chuck stuff away when they don't want it anymore. People that follow trends really closely and are used to fast fashion retailers hopping on each bandwagon and producing trends cheaply. People that buy statement pieces because everyone else is wearing them, not because they like them, and as such won't wear them again when they're out of style.
You're right that most people are likely like us and don't chuck away clothes often, but those speaking loudest are the ones that do.
There is nothing inherently wrong with buying fast fashion, you needn't let people guilt you for it. It's the overconsumption that has become typical for many in this modern world that is the issue.
That's such a learned helplessness answer. If you don't feel like you make enough money, work towards getting a better job. America is the land of opportunity.
Also, I don't know what makes you think that $500 for a dress isn't expensive. Most clothes cost less than $50. So a $500 dress is at least 10 times as much.
Also, take an economics class. If all jobs started paying more, all commodities would start costing more, too. Things you can't afford now, you still wouldn't be able to afford working the same job.
@@elizabethrobinson7148 You're an idiot, you know that? How do you think your sub £50 dresses are made? Hmm? Bad materials and worse labour practices.
It is not as simple as "get a better job" and you know that. Also an economist would argue that giving the poorest more money while not doing the same for those further up is actually better for the economy as they will spend it, rather than sitting on it like the rich. I bet you believe in Reaganomics, lol.
challenge: strawberry dress, but make it victorian
yess
I want to sign this petition
YASS
Or make it mid-late regency 💓
Yesyesyes pleeeas
I think theres an unrecognized reason for it going viral: cottagecore lesbians
Edit: I expected this to go unnoticed but I'm glad the replies are full of sapphics
I agree
absolutely yes
THIS
This may be real but it made me laugh 🤣
Who are the cottage core lesbians? Never heard about it
i hate when people say “this -insert art here- is so simple, i could have made this” well but u didn’t!!!!
I know! As a digital artist myself who uses my finger to draw, it takes like for me 2-3 days to draw a full body drawing...
@gwenoutof10 ik! Honestly, I respect all artist of any forms bc of dedication and commitment.
This dress might look simple but I watched a youtuber try and sew it together DIY and it has so many more elements so it than expected. I'd say someone who worked 8 hour days would take several days to put it all together.
@@kalxjunskiis8628 why use your finger...? Why not use a pen for the tablet?
@@Meimoons i cant afford one, i recently just got a stylus for my phone it kinda broke so im back to drawing with my fingers
Lirika Matoshi is an ethical brand. They pay their workers a liveable wage and in safe conditions. It should be worth the money.
I would love to see meme mom put a historical twist on this dress
Same! I designed one but can’t afford to make it lol so I’d love to see her do it
i loved the coca cola dress this lady came up with. so fun ! 🌟
it was a '' Historical /vintage '' coca cola dress. really cool 😎 👍
Omg yessss
PLEASE
*My mom:* everything's made in China, made in China, ugh! It should be made in USA!
*Also my mom:* I'm not paying more than $8 for a shirt!
*Me:* I don't think you understand how this works, mom.
LITERALLY
Haha!
Also, a large portion of "Made in the USA" consumer goods (not all, not a majority-- a large portion) are made using *prison labor.*
@@lissyemmy 👀
@@lissyemmy or it was almost entirely made in another country and they just sewed the "Made in the USA" tag on in the US. Companies are deceitful like that.
I remember when I got into sewing clothes I thought I would save so much money sewing my own dresses and costumes and capes and whatnot. Then I realized how expensive fabric is. And how hard it is to sew good looking stuff. 😆
Same here ! I went to a fabric shop, looked at nice fabrics saw the price, and immediately went to the sales and scrap section ahah. I still buy scraps or second hand fabrics (bed sheets, table covers and curtains )
My first real job was at a fabric store, when I was 15. Since then, I’ve watched as prices sky rocketed and wish I’d purchased the fabrics I liked then...before the mortgage and health costs.
Yep! I spent so much on fabric when I started sewing. It does NOT save money to sew your own things...not anymore st least. Maybe in the past.
@@___LC___ Omg !
I would love to have a summer job in a fabric store!
I'm 15 too, but in my country -18 can't work, so gathering money is pretty hard in France at my age.
How did you do that?
@@mygirldarby fr, fabrics are expensive. Consider tho, that most fast fashion clothes are made from that bad quality lining fabric you wouldn't give half a dollar for. You just can't tell when it's already a dress... Biggest realization of my life
6:03 As a Bengali, I gasped hearing the NON-EXISTENT hourly wage in my country and to think that Kylie Jenner, a *billionaire* , would shy away from paying 9-freaking-cents( which is 1 taka) to the factory workers is honestly contemptible.
Lol that billionaire thing was a lie. She is only a multi-millionaire. Yea what a shame though.
@@starletd6819 "only a multi-millionaire" (only a multi-millionaire) ONLY A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE
@@starletd6819 Ye she's only worth around 900m
So true though. So much of our workers are underpaid and over worked to produce stuff for less money and it only makes the rich further rich. It's so unfair.
People like Kylie become millionaires *because* they underpay and exploit workers in other countries :/
"That's why [fast fashion] clothes are cheap -- they're produced for free basically."
Say it louder for the folks in the back!
Good ooooold wage slavery 😐
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Eco, Ethical, Sustainable clothing brands don't use fast fashion materials....Lirika Matoshi strawberry dress is made with 100% Polyamide Tulle....there is no Sustainable or ethical Polyamide....it is PLASTIC it is CHEAP PLASTIC, Lirika Matoshi uses the same fabric that the AliExpress dupes use, The glitter strawberries are PVC! There’s seriously NO WORSE material!
PVC is really dangerous to human and animal health not only through the osmosis of the material on the skin, but also throughout its entire life cycle of production, use, and disposal. The main reason is due to the large amount of chlorine used in making it, but there’s also a dangerous byproduct called dioxin formed in making it and when PVC is incinerated as garbage.
Vinyl chloride, the main chemical used to make PVC, is a known endocrine disruptor and carcinogen, according to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and workers in PVC manufacturing facilities, as well as residents of surrounding communities, have higher cancer rates from exposure to these chemicals which contaminate the water, soil and air. People who work with PVC have reported lower fertility rates, irregular menstrual periods and are more prone to having children with sexual abnormalities.
Even short-term exposure of humans to high levels of dioxins may result in skin lesions, but long-term exposure can cause an impairment of the immune system, the nervous system, the endocrine system and reproductive functions.
Clearly, PVC is truly the most perilous of plastics. So why the hell would anyone consider making fashion out of this?
Not only the labor but the fabrics and the sewing techniques are also cheap.
Me: It's pretty...but this shade of pink wouldn't look good on me...
Also me: OHHH IT COMES IN BLACK!!!!!
Hahaha! Good one, PrincesStabbity.
High key want it tho👉👈 it's so pretty and matches my aesthetic, and it would probably look good on me cuz my face has a very innocent look and the dress looks so innocent and I want it 🤣 but I don't wanna be like basic you know
Damnit now I want the black one. Why did you have to curse me with this info
Im more of dark clothes but If I could I would buy the pink one because it looks better for me,also I kinda like the aesthetic
@@pepper4032 don't worry about being "basic" if you like it and enjoy it then don't mind such pointless stuff
Strawberry Dress: * fabulously exists *
Some people: ughhhh that’s soooo expensive
Supreme Shirt (literally just a white shirt with the word supreme)
Some people: I’ll happily pay the price for this!
IKR!! THIS IS MY EXACT THOUGHTS!! If your spending money anyway, you might as well spend it on something that’s worth the money
it's so strange how people are willing to pay for a brand but not for work/materials. maybe it's because it's like a popularity investment for them? everyone KNOWS supreme and how expensive it is so they know they're gonna get the attention they want, since it's so recognizable. the strawberry dress is NOW iconic, but it's not from a household name, and it's only the one item that's so iconic right now.
Nobody tell Merci about their collab with Oreos
Never understood the supreme hype and never will
Fr tho
It's important to mention that the designer and her sis (the sister also has a fashion brand, a bit more high end) are both creating jobs for women in Kosovo, which is crucial to pick up the economy after the war. Such a nice move from their side, giving back to the community. Only makes me want to support them more!
And this estimate doesn't even include:
- factory rent and utilities
- shipping from the factory to their US location (unless they ship directly to customers from the factory, which is honestly rare)
(- customs and taxes)
- upkeep on the website (domain, server rent, fees for payment solutions, site design, the list goes on)
- rent and utilities for their design atelier, and for a brick and mortar store if they have that
Those are just the expenses. On top of that, the owners (which in this case admittedly are the designers, so there's some overlap here) need to make a profit, because they have living expenses like all the rest of us, and because they probably want to invest in and grow their business.
In addition, it's basically always more expensive to produce in a small scale, because large companies A) have more leverage when negotiating prices with their suppliers and other business partners, and B) can guarantee that they'll bring in far more business at a steadier rate to their partners and suppliers than a smaller business can, and that security gets them better prices.
Let me think, why does an estimate made by Polish youtuber about a dress manufactured in Kosovo not include "shipping to US location"? XD Yes, yes, I'm being cheeky and purposefully missing the point, I know you just meant "shipping to local retailer". But well, you haven't called it that and we've just been joking in another comment how Americans never seem to consider there are other countries in the world and people of different nationality on the internet, so... you know, funny you phrased it that way :)
@@bialynia The design-house is based in New York? An American locality?
@@pneumarian But clothes are not manufactured there. I thought normally clothes are shipped from factories to local warehouses and from there to retail places. Is that uncommon?
@@bialynia I wonder if this designer is big enough to have various local retailers around the world? I got the impression they are primarily online, not through retailers around the world. As it's a small company I would only expect one warehouse location that the owners can manage, if most of their market is in the US (and lets face it given the US population and relative affluence they probably are) then they probably will find it cheaper overall to ship all their stock in bulk to a warehouse in the US and ship out individual orders to there rather than shipping individual orders from a warehouse near the factory.
@@bialynia like @pneumarian said, most smaller businesses will have their stock shipped to the location their office/headquarters are based out of. Probably because they need to know their physical stock (and not just the theoretical numbers) for auditing purposes every year, and because it's generally cheaper and easier to do the shipping to customers part yourself when you're a smaller business. Well, unless the business works on the drop-ship model (the product is made once an order is placed, and then shipped out directly from the manufacturer). Unlikely for a dress like this.
I am not from the US, and I actually currently live in the Czech Republic, I specifically said shipping to the US because the company is based out of New York.
It's also a customer service issue. Because they're based in the US, and that's where their main customer base is, it is cheaper and faster for the customers to have their packages be shipped from a US location than an international one. Like, one to three weeks difference, and they would get so many complaints if they didn't offer fast shipping options to the US as a US company.
Most US consumers will also unfortunately take a product shipped to them from within the US more seriously than they would one that's been shipped to them from Kosovo.
ethically made clothes always cost more because of the amount of attention to everything going on behind-the-scenes (the stuff that you mentioned), which costs a shit ton of money for it to be ethical in the first place. We think we're paying for only a dress, but we're actually paying for the amount of effort and hours of creativity and work going into this.
i agree that the strawberry dress isn't a necessity at all, and not everyone can afford the original one. But knockoffs are disrespectful to the artist imo.
much love from India, Karolina
I don’t mind the idea of knockoffs...if they are honestly presented. I mean, I might just need some cheap thing to use once. But what isn’t right is when they use the photo of the well constructed original to represent the inferior product.
The thing is unless it's made from gold and the gods not a single dress is worth 490$
@@yukino4636 but for sustainable fashion, the workers aren't in sweatshops + are being paid a fair wage; the materials would have been sourced sustainably and fairly AND would be good quality; plus you are paying for all the design work that went into it. Also there would obviously have to be a profit margin for the designer + people who worked on it. With all those factors combined, I think the price is fair. On the other hand, with a lot of fast fashion the profit margins are atrocious e.g. cheaply made, badly designed + sweatshop made dresses are being sold on pretty little thing for like $40; that's the issue here
(btw no hate towards your comment :)
I don't know about the ethical part (because a brand charging a lot of money for its products doesn't mean good working conditions instantly) but other than that I agree
@@yukino4636 i actually think its under priced. not like i can afford it anyway
If you buy some clothing that is cheap is because of these reasons:
A) crap quality (cheap materials = your dress wears out easily)
B) crap designing (aka your dress will break somewhere somehow bc not enough thought was put into it, not fitting bc bad pattern)
C) crap finishing sewing techinques (see above)
D) they don't pay enough the sewers (aka exploitation of labor)
I am a (graduate) fashion designer. When I go shopping with my friends I'm always the one who says "do you really need that?" When they want to buy a 4.99 euros tshirt.
I mean not everyone can afford expensive clothes and *that's fine* but guys, try to spend your money better and think of the people who are behind what you buy. Also overbuying and throwing away clothes more often is bad for the environment. Fashion industries are making their efforts to use less chemical colors (in europe there are LAWS that regulate that, but not in the whole world)
On the other hand, FAST FASHION oh! They don't care that much as long as it's cheap to produce and the masses buy a lot of those items
Buy less
Buy smart
What she said is super well explained. Thanks for addressing the issue. As a designer i am always said by the people around me "to be competitive" AND I HATE IT.
Who sould i compete with? Bangladesh kids that starve??? I wouldn't lower my prices THAT MUCH bc i need to live too.
As she said it's not worth it to buy something done BADLY bc would you wear it? No.
Thank you for that comment, it sums the issue up very well!
The Lirika Matoshi dress IS fast fashion.
It's made with the same cheap fabrics that the AliExpress dupes use
100% Polyamide Tulle.... PLASTIC
The GLITTER strawberries are PVC
There is no ethical or Sustainable Polyamide, or PVC there is gots certified organic cotton tulle but it's $22 a yard, Polyamide Tulle is $2 a yard
Lirika Matoshi is a fraud, you have been duped
There’s seriously NO WORSE material
PVC is really dangerous to human and animal health not only through the osmosis of the material on the skin, but also throughout its entire life cycle of production, use, and disposal. The main reason is due to the large amount of chlorine used in making it, but there’s also a dangerous byproduct called dioxin formed in making it and when PVC is incinerated as garbage.
Vinyl chloride, the main chemical used to make PVC, is a known endocrine disruptor and carcinogen, according to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and workers in PVC manufacturing facilities, as well as residents of surrounding communities, have higher cancer rates from exposure to these chemicals which contaminate the water, soil and air. People who work with PVC have reported lower fertility rates, irregular menstrual periods and are more prone to having children with sexual abnormalities.
Even short-term exposure of humans to high levels of dioxins may result in skin lesions, but long-term exposure can cause an impairment of the immune system, the nervous system, the endocrine system and reproductive functions.
Clearly, PVC is truly the most perilous of plastics. So why the hell would anyone consider making fashion out of this?
@@bellablow4287 we agree on that. Idk about this dress specifically since i have never bought it nor i have seen the technical specifics hence i've never targeted this brand as fast fashion or not.
There are reciclable fabrics that are plastics-ish (polyester for example)
Designers should all do their research and design knowing the issues they bring to the table (pollution, exploitation of work etc) to be more environment and ethically friendly. That was my message if you haven't caught it at first.
Idk why you answered to me though.
@@ParkMira Seems like that user has been commenting a lot? I'm in school for textile chemistry, and I have to say a lot of what they're commenting is either irrelevant to this situation or just pretty inaccurate. It's nice to hear someone from the other side of the production loop talking about sustainability! Hopefully when both of us graduate we can help push the industry towards a green future :)
@@josieleigh7515 that's so cool! I hope so, that the industry in general will be more sustainable.
One step is to be better consumers / buyers
If the masses don't want something the industries will change (ex see the trend of the gluten free or vegan food, some years ago there weren't any)
The other step is for us, designers, chemists etc to KNOW what we're doing and to THINK when what we design has to be thrown away, where does it go? :)
Have a nice day and good luck with your studies ♡♡♡
when you talked about how low our workers get paid per hour in our country (Bangladesh) my heart just shatterd🥺 I remembered how hard they work and basically get paid nothing. It's worse now that the pandemic is here. They get paid even less for working more
@Miu Susu: What's your solution (?) Complaining . . . is easy.
@@QED_ she’s not the queen what is she supposed to do about workers’ wages?
@@fighterflight exactly lol it's like telling a kid with cancer to stop "whining" about the pain
What's he supposed to do really?
@@QED_ uhhh what??? What a psychopath wtf?
one of my facebook friends bought a knockoff of the dress and was LEGIT crying because she wanted the real thing and we're all just like "you paid $17, of course its terrible."
😂
ahahaa the entitlement 😂
I mean id be dissapointed if it wasnt even somewhat similar. I saw a few knockoffs in our lovely youtubers slideshow tht dodnt look too bad
Howeverrr i wouldnt fuckig cry tht it doesnt look like the dress completely *lol* its $18for a multi hundred dollar dress. Not to mention the fotos if u just LOOK at them and they didnt use the fotos from the actual dress to try and trick u. U can tell it aint gonna look like the dress lmao. Ur friends funny ^-^.
Also i struggle with finding good cosplay and i wonder why premade cosplay looks so bad. But if i ever make a video abt tht imma reference this one. I still think they charge far to much for thos ali express cosplays half the time considering it looks BARELY lile the cosplay. Like i kmw i get what i pay for but 25-100 dollars and u give me a thing tht looks like u painted the colors on and barely tried to match it and its super flat
Id fuckin gladly pay several hundred dollars for good quality versions of cosplay. Shoot its why i want to learn to sew so i can make my own! Still expensive, prolly more then the cheap ones made by whatever manufacturer pushes them out. But at the same time would look SO MUCH BETTER and i want to LOOK like the character somewhat and not a ten cent knockoff :D
Tho figuring out cheap af knockoff ways to cosplay a character us awesome. Like me using my black shortshorts, tight tank anf some heels and a baseball bat to do a cheap harley Quinn with what i had on hand. Its fun
@@aidenflame1576 With cosplay, there's really a limited market of who is going to buy that costume for starters, and then it's just done as shittily as possible. Probably more aimed at the people who go to party city and get a cheap costume for halloween. From what i've seen, the pictures they provide are utter crap anyway, but what they produce is even worse. I emailed one person about a part of the cosplay to see if I could buy just a part of it that I was struggling with and I got a more detailed description and a picture and was like NOOOOO thank you.
You can do cosplay on the cheap doing closet cosplay (like you've done) or getting things from thrift stores and altering from there. My two cosplays have been from scratch and have cost a few hundred in supplies alone, never mind the hours upon hours of work that has gone into them.
And while not a costume, I had made a giant plush octopus (for reasons...) and if I were to sell that, I would probably ask about $1k for that because of just how long it took me (each leg took about 4 hours of work, that's 32 total hours. My fault for wanting to sew on individual suckers onto each leg though haha).
Aiden Flame Because costume design is expensive lmao. If you’re paying 25-100 dollars for a *whole costume* it’s not going to be high quality 🤦
I think it's kinda good to think about that yes it's a lot of money but no it's not expensive. That might sound a bit weird but what I mean with that is that for the design and quality it's a fair price, so it's worth it. That doesn't mean that everyone can buy it ofcourse, but honestly noone really needs it. If something is really beautiful and well made, it might be worth it for you to save up for if you have that possibility
That was my thought too! My mother is a seamstress and my brother is one school year away from being a fashion designer. They work very hard on what they make and make sure that it's good quality. There the prices for one clothing article can very easily spike up when it's one or just a few more people working with good quality materials.
You get your moneys worth.
My thought, couldn't say it better.
@Hertzen: my mother started sewing when she was very young. I would love a dress out of our price range and mom would whisper to me "We can make that." She would find a pattern and fabrics that were a close match and make the dress.
@@user-mv9tt4st9k my mother does the same haha! But i don't want her to do the work
@@herzen9857 you sound like you have a great mom! I'm sure she loves making them because they're for you. 🙂
......wow Micarah really must be working some kind of magic to have made that entire Ariana grande dress for $40 😂
She made a dress outta chicken feed so she's on a whole other level
I mean she only pays for herself If she had other people making it, it wouldn’t be that cheap
@@antonhanson8219 i think that used to be normal for poor people in like.. the 40s?
She said she needed more tulle, but even then tulle is pretty cheap compared to fabric
The hours of labor though do not equate to $40
Also if you read about this dress, the strawberries are hand drawn.
With designer/couture fashion, the material is very often the thing that can't be obtained for love or money.
I am a small independent designer too and I never understood the scandal of the strawberry dress. Our dresses are around 150- 1300 € depending on complexity. We are a team of two working in Romania. After fabric and labour (paying ourselves) we have income taxes, business taxes, payment processor taxes ( PayPal and Paylike), an accountant and bills to pay. Trust me we are not becoming millionaires. And we can keep our prices small because we live and work in Romania. If we lived in a more expensive country where the taxes were higher and the wages of the accountant and so on were higher... we would have to double our prices. Since we started our business the only items we buy fast fashion are underwear bottoms 🙊. We are yet to find a local/ independent designer to make them. We just stopped buying fast fashion and make everything ourselves or buy from other designers. This is how the world should be.
Sooo where can we get your designs? 👀Drop a link or something!
@@samiraansari5686 oh I wasn't going for self promoting and this is my personal account so there are no links. I just shared my experience in the comments. Me and my partner own mariahellerdesigns.com .
We also have a CZcams chanel *which doesn't have much content at the moment*. You can find us by typing Maria Heller Designs in the search bar ☺ on CZcams and pretty much any other social media platform. Thanks for asking though 💖.
@@samiraansari5686 I have followed their Instagram for a while; their work is so beautiful 😭
@@oanaheller2166 oh goodness, your collection is *gorgeous*
@@oanaheller2166 thank you for your input as an actual designer! Your dresses are absolutely gorgeous and dreamy. Looking at your website I also realized that photographing clothing on models is also a recurring expense (models, photographer, make-up, hair, location, etc).
I think we have gotten used to such low prices and quality and always wanting more, more, more, that we are losing sight of sustainability.
I have a couple of dresses by this designer, and they’re honestly so worth the price. There are so many layers of fabric and they’re such good quality.
Same!! I have one of her dresses and it’s actually incredible. Which dresses do you have? I have the ‘Sara’ dress in gold. 💛
Sofi Waterloo oooh I just googled that; it’s so pretty! I have the pink teuta dress and the pink sky dress.
윤재화 I really want to buy myself the ‘Teuta’ dress but I’m not sure I can justify spending a bunch more money on another formal dress. 😂
Sofi Waterloo ah fair enough haha
@@sofiwaterloo6717 me too, I love that dress
The fact that people had a hundred white, plain, supreme shirt and then have the audacity to complain about this.
But...they’re not the same people. Fucking duh. 🙄
@@namedrop721 they share the same mentality
I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THE “mom can we get a strawberry dress?” “no, we have a strawberry dress at home” part
The laces are actually tentacles the dress uses to reach every angle of the internet available.
The dress is a parasitical alien lifeform in search of host bodies.
@@johannageisel5390 Well, that just made me want to grab a pitchfork.
I don't own the strawberry dress, but I did commission a seamstress friend to make me a dress inspired by it but themed to Sorcerer Mickey (for a disneybound). Even that dress, made with much cheaper materials, sewed by a friend at a discount, and without the extra costs of marketing/design cost me about $300 in total. So the $490 cost is completely understandable and it could be sold at a much higher price
Disenybound sorcerer Mickey strawberry dress?! Be still my beating heart😍
Abigail Perez yes I absolutely love it 🥰 i have pictures of it up on my Instagram @sophiekraymer !!!
The dress sounds amazing! Is there a picture to see it??
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That sounds so pretty!
the way she used urban outfitters as an example of a cheap retailer and that’s expensive for me
"The strawberry dress is all over the internet, tiktok, instagram...." And I am just now hearing about it today. In fact, finding out WTF is a strawberry dress is why I clicked on this title.
pretty much
I found out about it in November xD
Edit: got rid of a grammar error
Uhh same, for like, right now.
Ikr
X2
This is why society systematically attacks poor people even without meaning to most of the time. If you're poor but want something nice you can't save up for the truly valuable version, instead you either have to go with the knock off, go without, or buy into fast fashion like you said, where people are paid literal pennies per hour. It's one of the reasons why I'm beginning to make my own clothes but like you said, good fabric really isn't that cheap.
Damn but do you have a sewing machine? How much did that cost? I'm starting to care more about fashion you know...but I'm not quite wealthy enough to buy ethical clothes. So for now, the best I can do is buy as little clothes as possible and if I really need or want something I'll go thrifting.
@@starlight9857 Yeah I got a sewing machine last year, $199 but it's a heavy duty one with dozens of stitching styles and does buttons. I've already made a few things with it like bags, skirts, robes, and even my first ever dress.
I guess the only way out is reducing your wardrobe and coming to terms with the fact that we don’t actually need to get new clothes every season. I wear mine until they practically fall apart, and vintage style helps with feeling “unfashionable” or not “up to date” because the styles are long gone anyway. the most toxic part of fast fashion to me is the idea that clothes can only be worn for a certain amount of time and then we need to switch them for something new. If you buy a single dress every 3 years instead of every season, it’s more likely you could save up some money for something nicer. and it goes both ways - if you buy a dress you’re absolutely in love with, you’ll be completely ok with wearing it for several years straight or for it to be one of your only dresses
I don't know how to make my own clothes but everything in my family gets passed down. So right now, half of my wardrobe was my mums. I modify them to suit my taste, but that's about it. Do you have like a recommended yt channel on how to make clothes? I would love to start doing that.
I was trying to do the same thing- to make my own clothes- but then I saw how expensive it is to buy fabric... and I don't understand how that's cheaper either... so! Thrifting it is!!!!
ok consider this: what if clothes aren't expensive but YOU are the one who isn't paid enough to buy anything remotely nice and of good quality?? *gasps in capitalism*
YES
The trade-off is that if you want quality clothing, you'll have to buy less i.e. have a smaller wardrobe. The real kicker of capitalism is that it convinces us that we need to be constantly buying clothes and wearing something different all the time, instead of doing what the rest of history did by having like a max of 6 quality outfits and wearing them every week
@Anne I'm not sure what you mean. Wages Dont go up proportionally to the rise of prices...ever since the crisis, the price of rent and goods has risen and yet minimum wage keeps falling every year in Greece. And that is an inherent problem in capitalism since as you pointed out resources are limited. Every time somone makes profit it's at the cost of someone else, ie workers.
It's kind of both. I mean clothes aren't expensive but they should be. But we have this weird mindset where we think we're entitled to grand wardrobe and the world should make it possible by lowering the prices enough because if we can't afford it something is not fair, we're wronged somehow. We refuse to accept that being able to buy clothes on a whim and get new ones every single season is a privilege that comes with considerable wealth and for an average person, it's perfectly normal to need to save money to buy an outfit, especially the one for a special occasion.
Communism is not the answer. Removing the fuckery from our government and the overseas interference is the answer. Buy American. Or buy solely from your home country.
I mean I'm not saying the reason this dress is popular is cottagecore lesbians. But....the gays like it a lot.
As a gay I can confirm we have claimed the strawberry dress
I'm bisexual but it has to be said
I loved it so much I made an 1830s version of it
@@lilybloome1601 WAIT DUDE SHOW ME I WANT TO SEE THAT SO BAD
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Shopping ethically on a low budget but also wanting to feel like a princess is... Rough.
When she said there was controversy about the price of the dress I was expecting her to say something like $4,000. Now I don't pay $500 for dresses myself...ever, but I know that trendy fashion is expensive, so when she gave the price I was surprised. That's in the low/mid range for an average prom or wedding dress. Why are people so upset? That dress is potentially attainable if you're determined, patient and frugal.
MISSed Bandwagon exactly and also the fact they’re probably gonna wear it once for a tik tok makes it overpriced. If you really loved the dress for the dress and not the trend and wore it often it would be worth it because it would last.
Exactly. I mean, I personally would never buy it because I couldn't wear it anywhere and I don't really like it all that much and I don't really like dresses anyway (plus I wouldn't pay that price for a dress I'd probably never wear), but if you really wanted to you could set aside like $10 every week and you'd be able to get it in a year (or even $20 and get it in a few months). But in any case, some one else mentioned people paying buttloads of money for a prom dress and only wearing it once. I mean honestly, this is normal but paying $450 for a well-made, trendy dress is... not okay??
Agreed, I don't understand the outrage. People don't get angry when they see extremely overpriced printed shirts all over the place so why are they mad at a well made, beautiful dress being the same price?
@@aendra6495 IKR? Nobody complains about Gucci whose clothes are probably eight times the price they cost to make
why, I could buy 6 partial videogames or 4 complete videogames for that price!
The internet: *THE STRAWBERRY DRESS*
Me: * stares at the $20 hoodie I really want but can't afford *
EXACTLY BRUH
Exactly
I know
That super cute pastel goth hoodie for 36€ which I can't afford and will 10/10 be made of shit fabric because it's on Aliexpress
I felt that
The dress reminds me of a big, fluffy confection. Like a dessert you can wear, it's eye candy. Also as you said, definately a fairy princess vibe to it, which gives it two cravable elements which makes women want to just gobble up this very pretty, fun dress. 🍓🍧🍦🍨🍓
@Laurie Spencer: Very clear analysis -- props.. Leave it so someone else to add: ". . . and has the same nutritional value and health consequences".
Pixie locks explainned that it was etically made, paying living wages to the seamstress etc. So now I feel that is "cheap".
$400 isn't a lot for a dress? People who think thats unreasonable have never actually made a full sized fluffy dress and it shows
Edit: go read searching for knowledge's comments
Ikr? I can't sew or knit for the life of me, but even I can tell that the dress was reasonably priced, considering how much work and whatnot was put into it.
I am currently making an organza petticoat and just that petticoat is by now at a price of about 50e and I haven't even started on the actual dress.
And it's only so cheap, because the organza at my local store is really cheap (1.95€ per meter).
I mean, we also live in a world where making things too expensive is normal so???
I mean, yeah sure making a full dress is a lot of money.......... IF you use needlessly expensive fabric. I've made a full dress without expensive fabrics so what's the damn point?
@@moonieland why do you think that fabric was cheap?
Uh.. not really, I made a 1920’s vogue dress for forty dollars in three days. And the fabric quality was fantastic. But then again very thin so two yards was all I needed.
12:50 "please confess to the meme mother if you sinfully bought a knock-off" is what I heard
I heard "I want to laugh at you".
It's always interesting to me when someone's complaint about a price usually starts with "I can't afford it" instead of "you haven't made that item worth what you are selling it for".... like it's okay if you can't afford something, that doesn't mean that it isn't worth its price
Well, what exactly does "worth its price" mean? If it means that the profit margin ia relatively low given the large expenses involved in production, then sure, of course. But to the typical consumer it simply refers to willingness to pay. If a person isn't willing to pay a certain price for something, then to them, it isn't worth its price. And they don't buy it. Depending on how many people decide not to buy it because, to them, it isn't worth the price, the producer may also decide it isn't worth that price and take measures to sell it for less.
Yeah i mean if an average person can't afford it means its not worth the price compared to...food.
Agreed, maybe it doesn't make sense in one person's budget, but it may be completely worth its price. A talented designer shouldn't make themselves broke (selling at loss or making razor-thin marges) and/or break their standard of quality or ethics just to lower the price : trying to make it more ""accessible""/cheaper would inevitably lower its whole value. Other people are ready to pay as much as the price they're asking for it already, maybe fewer than if it was a cheap H&M dress, but that's fine. It's just a niche market !
I've been following Lirika Matoshi for years. Her work is absolutely stunning in a candyland/fairy tale kind of way.
“It’s a dress that Cinderella, a toddler, and an a-list celebrity would all happily wear”
Yeah, and the fact that she covers basically the spectrum of sizes. I've seen Tess Holiday wear it but also size 0 models.
Exactly.
One of the CZcamsrs you showed in the intro made a replica of the dress with the closest fabric she could find the cost of materials alone were a little over $400and it took her I think 3 days to finish it. The designers work shop is New York based employing I think 15 seamstresses. Factoring all the cost of the materials, rent and utilities to keep open a work shop in the middle of NYC and pay the living wage of an America worker for three days work it makes it seem like that dress maybe doesn’t even have a mark up and if it does is less than $50.
Damn that's almost sad 😅
But workshop is based in Kosovo where the designer is from. I think the shop is based in NY. At least I understood Karolina like that
The dress is made in Kosovo. New York designer, Kosovo production.
This is kind of like seeing a white canvas and saying "I could do that". Ya probably could, but you didn't. You didn't strike creative gold
@@bumblehoney7206 Or rather I made a dress far nicer that doesn't look like it belongs on a barbie. Jeez, get a grip
I see it like this: imagine buying a wedding dress at a wedding boutique vs ordering one on AliExpress. You know what you're paying for - it's the same for this designer dress.
There's also the price of shipping the fabrics around, and shipping the dresses from Kosovo back to the US... 490 is quite reasonable to me too... It's a shame people don't actively think about all these costs, and just assume clothing should be cheap :(
"WE HAVE STRAWBERRY DRESS AT HOME!" I died.
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I had purchased a strawberry jersey and wouldn't mind copying it but purchased a pattern closer to my style.
Effing pajamas. Lol, ive bought something like that on e-commerce. 10/10 wouldnt wear it again.
The dress is only $490? Dang, that’s super reasonable.
I’m a Canadian clothing designer, and our minimum wage here is $15 per hour, so like even a basic skirt is going to cost you like $90 if we’re paying everyone fairly ($15/hr x 1hr labour, $10 fabric, $5 supplies is $30 for manufacturing costs, then multiply that by three to cover design fees, marketing, patterning, machinery upkeep, insurance, web hosting, office supplies, business licenses, etc., and still make some profit to keep the business growing sustainably.)
Now factor in the cost when you make something with more fabric or sewing hours, and suddenly $490 for the Strawberry Dress looks normal.
Minimum wage in Alberta is 15 per hour, and it's 16 in Nunavut, but it's lower everywhere else in Canada. I'm a tailor living in New Brunswick and I only make 13 an hour, which is still $1.30 more than minimum wage here.
As a Canadian who would love to purchase clothes made ethically, I'm willing to pay in order to know that the workers are paid fairly. But let me be honest, even $15 isn't enough, considering the skill and technicality of making clothing.
Thank you for the insight.
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well, people in Kosovo definitely don't earn $15 per hour
I just went on Lirika's website to look for fashion inspiration for my drawings, and I found a dress there that's named after her sister Teuta. That's so friken adorable.
We are indeed spoiled by fast fashion. I stopped buying fast fashion about 7 years ago because, surprise, everything falls apart way too easily. I started thrifting like it was an addiction and my wardrobe not only looks better, but everything still looks magnificent and hasn't even begun to show signs of wear (excluding shoes). I have purchased some shoes that needed to be resoled and some outer wear that needed some reinforcement stitches, all ultimately minor yet important repairs.
I'm actually planning on doing a historical version of this dress, with embroidery instead and I can confirm that the fabric prices are indeed that much approximately. Then add the time and effort and yeah... $490 isn't that steep all things considered. Context is an incredible thing
@@nocta2121 when I do...I shall!
I applaud you for wanting to embroider on it instead. I would pay thousands for that. I've been doing embroidery since i was 12 (i'm 23 now) and i know how much work goes into it. Honestly it might take just as much time as making the dress itself.
@@Verusik97 thank you and probably. But it'll last a lot longer than glitter. At least that's my theory. It'll be a lot of work but hopefully really worth the result if I can pull it off.
@@Verusik97 I used to do embroidery but I ran out of material, my mom won't buy anymore 😔😔😔😔
@@mercytalks8762 I hope you succeed!!!💜💜💜💜
It looks like it has the scent of a strawberry shortcake doll.
I had the same exact thought!!
I can smell the scent from this comment
Even 20+ years later, she STILL has the scent! Cupcake Dolls still carry thier scent after the same amount of time too! Only God knows what is in the plastic to make it still carry a smell after all this time! Xx
I got the same feel :)
Sooooooo plastic?
Three hours to make this? I think one day is more realistic.
Three to four hours is a realistic timeline.
As a fashion designer, I'd estimate 4 to 6 hours, not including patternmaking.
On their site, it says that it takes 2 days and 3 people working on it.
I’ve always been a fan of period fashion, but your editing in your videos completely elevate the experience for me. Thank you
It looks like something a Barbie doll from the 90s would be dressed in.
Ugly
Nah, 90s Barbies had clubbing clothes. Well, my Barbies had clothes knitted by my nan, but same thing
There is one called peaches and cream Barbie that wears something like a full length gown version of this dress.
Which is the b e s t thing
@@tmmartinesq.6216 I was starting to think I was the only one who thought this dress was ugly...like, what is everyone else seeing that I'm not seeing??? 😂😂
I had a very different strawberry printed dress when I was ten. It was made of printed cotton broadcloth, and it had a circle skirt with flutter sleeves. I think it just might be one of the most fun dresses I’ve ever owned.
This current, viral strawberry dress gives me major nostalgia vibes because of the one I owned 25 years ago. Maybe other women are feeling nostalgic for a piece of their past?
true, it looks like something a 4 year old me would gladly wear!
@ Would you wear kawaii-i.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/506_Innocent_01-490x736.jpg styled more maturely
Or this one. I have it in storage. It has bunnies and doilies on it with strawberries
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I would have had a strawberry dress (white cotton with little berries) as a little girl, but my mom cannot sew, and so she never finished it.
@@SobrietyandSolace All of those dresses are better than the Strawberry Dress!
@@sarahburke8955 Thanks for liking my taste- I hope you can track down one of them. They'll all likely be on the secondhand market. One or two might have re-releases or a made-to-order. I'll try to help you look if I can and there's one you like in particular. I can't buy any clothes right now but wouldn't mind helping someone else find their dream strawberry dress.
I can imagine those posts in like 15 years with people being like "if you don't remember the strawberry dress you're too young "
Polyamide tulle with glittered strawberries sounds a little cheap looking in my mind . This silhouette would be gorgeous in a cotton lawn fabric.
That's my take on it too. If it were made of a simpler fabric, like cotton (without the glitter), it would be classy and versatile.
@@lauradanielyan9394 cheap and childish blablabla all of those things can vary for each person also why is "childish" a bad thing again???
Everyone at the beginning: "The strawberry dress!" "The strawberry dress!" "The strawberry dress is all over the internet!"
Me: "What's the strawberry dress?"
I came across a reference to it in a historically sewing channel 2 days ago. Honestly I don't get the fuss, but then I don't follow "fashion". Looking through some of the best/worst dressed lists some commenters further up mentioned and I have no idea on who most of the people on either list were....
Same, but then again, I'm a 36yo woman with the fashion aesthetic of "cool granny" combined with "angsty teenage boy".
Same, this is my first time hearing about it... I'd guess it's probably because it apparently went viral on TikTok and I don't use it, so makes sense
I never heard about it before either.
@@lavozdealma No shame in that. In the old days, people were more poor than poor people today, but much better dressed back then. They also tailored made their own clothes.
Meme mom and Bernadette collabing to make a Victorian version of this dress would be a dream come true.
Yaaas! Also, they both would look stunning in that shade of pink.
YES YES YES
YES YES YES
Yes!
Yes, please!
"I'm not in the fashion industry" *proceeds to explain in detail the process of making the dress and the prices*
"Mom can we get the strawberry dress?"
"We got a strawberry dress at home!"
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the journo who's saying "it's too expensive" is the same that berates fast fashion for employing cheap Bangladeshi workers.
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And probably commends Kylie for not paying the factory workers in our country.
One word, "cottagecore". That's what made it go viral.
Yep
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An addition..
" Sapphic "
(( aka me))
I have a strawberry dress back home that I love. It's white with a full skirt to just below the knee, has short sleeves, and a matching tie belt. It makes me think of the 50s or early 60s. It has green topped strawberries, red ones and pink ones, all over it. It's comfy and soft, some kind of micro knit polyester blend or something. I got it at a local thrift shop years ago, for I think 8 dollars. I also found later, in another thrift shop, some earrings with painted leather strawberries that match the red berries on the dress perfectly! I love my strawberry dress 💓 and I get compliments on it whenever I wear it!
We need this dress shape and design to come in more options too because the shape is amazing and so flattering! So glad her dress is getting recognition.
Knowing you're poor: when someone says "urban outfitters" is cheap and you think, "no way".. 🤦♀️😭😆
Lavenue Cc Perhaps Karolina meant cheaply made due to labor practices and volume buying or cheap as in poor quality.
I choose not to buy from Forever 21, for example, because the clothes are virtually disposable. It claims to be cheap, but it is unaffordable in more ways than one for an individual in my shoes. Speaking of shoes, they are the only things I buy new.
@@themermaidstale5008 I agree with this; the markup must be enormous because those clothes aren't monetarily cheap, but they aren't fantastic quality. If I'm going to spend £50 on a shirt, I want it to be made of not polyester!
@@themermaidstale5008 I agree with this; the markup must be enormous because those clothes aren't monetarily cheap, but they aren't fantastic quality. If I'm going to spend £50 on a shirt, I want it to be made of not polyester!
@@kkay3784 true, forever 21 is at an "average" price, but the quality is horrible and that's what it makes it unaffordable
Ooh that's my face at the beginning!!! Thank you for the inclusion and credit :) It is a very interesting fashion phenomenon, great video on the topic! 💕
I love you pixie 🥺
Pixieeeee! 🥰
My mom knows about sewing, and when I showed her the dress she said: well, that must be an expensive dress
And also she said a lot of things that you mentioned. A quality dress costs a lot.
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Here is also a explanation for the price:
Ok so I’m from Kosovo and I spend about 2 months annually there. Kosovo has a huugggeeee market for dresses. One of the biggest events in a Kosovo-Albanians live is marriage. You get invited to at least 2-3 marriages every year. So you don’t want to look underdressed because everyone has a wonderful dress. And you can’t wear the same dress multiple times too. So people buy dresses a lot. Now you don’t want the same dress as everyone, that’s why you buy one of a kind dress. Every dress is handmade, because most shops are specialized to only make one dress. That’s why dresses, especially this one too, are so expensive. And another factor for the price is that most fabrics are imported from turkey, which adds the transport.
I am albanian too! ❤
Thanks so much for the explanation! It makes so much more sense to me now, knowing that it's supposed to be a special-occasion dress. I think the price is completely reasonable in that context.
My guess is that most people think it's too expensive because it looks like a normal day dress in pictures. For an everyday dress that's so trendy that no one will be able to get away with wearing it next year, $490 seems a bit too much
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But the fabric is 100% Polyamide Tulle....it's plastic....it's cheap af....and the glitter strawberries are 100% PVC
it's fast fashion materials with a high fashion price tag
@@bellablow4287 just want to say that a polyamide tulle is lightweight nylon mesh. Garment quality nylon tulle is hard to process as it is so delicate, but the weight gives a beautiful flounce. Couture fashion uses nylon mesh, it has a great hand. If you wanted silk tulle (the only natural tulle that could give the same effect), the cost of the fabric alone could be double the current price of the completed dress. Also the strawberries are PVC because the glitter needs a sturdy backing to stick to, it can't adhere to the tulle alone. PVC allows flexibility while staying comfortable.
You would nail a historical version and just flex on all those tik tokers.
I appreciate these kinds of discussions because far too many think a handmade item made by an independent individual or brand is too expensive when it is in fact appropriately priced.
The way I look at fashion is the items priced in the middle tier is usually appropriately priced. Keep in mind this is a general statement and not applicable to every item. A plain t-shirt will not likely differ too much in terms of complexity because a t-shirt is a t-shirt. The only major differences would be fabric and wages. But for complex garments, or garments made from sustainable sources, then middle tier prices are usually appropriate. Anything made for the luxury market in general is what I consider overpriced. As a general rule, there's a ton of brand markup in those crazy prices that have nothing to do with craftsmanship.
The dress actually reminds me most of the early 1980's. Princess Diana's wedding dress meets a four-year-old girl's dream in pink.
WE NEED A VICTORIAN STRAWBERRY DRESSSS!
The 1930's had the most whimsical and elaborate designs of the 20th century. There is something to be said for escapism in times of stress and turmoil.
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Totally. It's just too stressful and depressing to not escape. I have watched more tv since the pandemic started than I had in the five years prior.
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I kept looking at your hair, you are soooo pretty
I'd love to see or even make a cherry version...
Or a blueberry/blackberry theme!
omg and it should be blue . i saw a swimsuit for kids at target and it had blue with some cherries on it i would die
lemons !
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We need an entire rainbow orchard, damn it!
Currants would be an easy fruit to represent with sequins.
I'd just feel like I was an adult playing dress up as Strawberry Shortcake wearing it.
All you need is the bonnet .
I feel the same. I like the silhouette, though I’m personally not a fan of low necklines (it’s why I love Edwardian and Victorian daywear does much- give me all the high necklines!). So I’d wear it with a higher neckline, a lower hem and without the strawberries....
Oh wait, I just described a chemise a la reine! Which I would absolutely wear. I’m surprised that Karolina didn’t point out the resemblance to the chemise a la reine, actually, given she’s made one before.
Yeah that's the point.
Especially if you're short😃😃😃
Yeah, I love the shape but don't look good in pink and don't have the confidence to wear something covered in sparkly strawberries.
The same style in deep red or green though, I'd wear that.
Thank you for sharing info about both of the Matoshi sisters. I could stare at their designs all day!
i love that you pointed out that fashion is art. ngl i forget that all the time. buying from them is the same as supporting any other small artist and I feel like everyone loves to do that.
People frequently underestimate hidden costs in the production of all sorts of things.
2:04 "Why did a picture of egg went viral on Instagram? Probably for the eggxactly same reason"
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I'm absolutely in love with your earrings!!!!! 😍
Great video!!!+ the style of the strawberry dress is lovely, change the design from strawberries, maybe to stars, space ect n it gets even better.