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How consumer shopping habits affect willingness to embrace sustainable fashion

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  • Annarita Colasante
  • Idiano D’Adamo
  • Paolo Rosa
  • Piergiuseppe Morone

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Sustainability represents the greatest economic challenge of the current century, speaking to the need to move from a profit orientation that disregards social and environmental costs to one that properly considers such dimensions (i.e. the circular economy). The clothing industry has a strong negative impact on the environment and, for this reason, a quick transition from ‘fast’ to ‘circular’ fashion is needed. The present work aimed at analysing how consumer habits determine willingness to embrace circular fashion, with a special focus on the second-hand (i.e. re-use) market. Based on questionnaire data, consumers were classified into fast or slow fashion groups. The results revealed that fast fashion consumers mainly focused on price and had a lower propensity to purchase second-hand garments. Hence, interventions to increase consumer awareness of the environmental impact of fast fashion are needed.

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  • Annarita Colasante & Idiano D’Adamo & Paolo Rosa & Piergiuseppe Morone, 2025. "How consumer shopping habits affect willingness to embrace sustainable fashion," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(6), pages 850-855, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:32:y:2025:i:6:p:850-855
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2023.2290578
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