Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

The average person has nearly five times as many clothes as they did 50 years ago, and 100 billion garments were produced worldwide last year. Patrick Grant's book "Love Your Clothes: A Guide to Buying, Wearing, and Caring for the Things You Love" explores the crisis of consumption and quality in fashion and suggests how we can make ourselves happier by rediscovering the joy of living with fewer, better-quality things. It celebrates craftsmanship, making things with care, buying things with thought, and valuing everything we own.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

The Sunday Times bestseller 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN. Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering, making a compelling argument for going back to basics. JOE LYCETT. We used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn't have many, but those we had were important to us. We'd cherish them, repair them, and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for millions of skilled people locally. Today, the average person has nearly five times as many clothes as they did just 50 years ago. Last year, 100 billion garments were produced worldwide, most made from oil, 30% of which were not even sold, and the equivalent of one bin lorry full of clothing is dumped in landfill or burned every single second. Our wardrobes are full to bursting with clothes we never wear, so why do we keep buying more? In this passionate and revealing book about loving clothes but despairing of a broken global system, Patrick Grant considers the crisis of consumption and quality in fashion and how we might make ourselves happier by rediscovering the joy of living with fewer, better-quality things. Weaving in his personal journey through fashion, clothing, and the other everyday objects in his life, this is a book that celebrates craftsmanship, making things with care, buying things with thought, and valuing everything we own. It explains how rethinking our relationship with clothing could kickstart a thriving new local economy, bringing prosperity and hope back to places in our country that have lost out to globalization, offshore manufacturing, and the madness of price and quantity being the only things that matter. Presents a new way of thinking about the things we buy. KEITH BRYMER-JONES

Weight: 616g
Dimension: 242 x 162 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008664008