On the whole, the length of life of an item of clothing can be anything from four or five years to ten or twenty. With technological developments in the textile industry, ingredients are constantly being improved, so that it is harder and harder to wear clothes out. Surplus old clothes are becoming more and more of a problem for housewives.
而一般說來，一件衣服的壽命至少可維持四、五年到一、二十年，尤其在紡織業技術發達、材料日益改進的今天，衣服越來越不易磨損，舊衣過剩的問題於是愈發成為主婦的煩惱。