I’m not suggesting that any countries have clothing shortages.

However, countries don’t wear clothes. People do. People sometimes have shortages of clothing in many places.

For example, here in the United States people sometimes experience poverty and may sometimes experience a lack of suitable clothing. This happens at the same time that there are also people in the US throwing away clothing that they do not use. This is because those people are different people in different immediate locations.

The reasons that people lack clothing is not because there is not enough clothing in existence. It is because the clothing is not distributed universally to every person who needs it.

If I have seen this with my own two eyes in the US, then I am sure it happens in other places.

> A single garment can last decades if it's synthetic or allowed to fully dry between uses.

So? A person with the ass ripped out of their jeans or a hole in their shoe doesn’t give a fuck whether other clothes last 10 years.