Underwear in Personal Wardrobe – A Study About Consumption and Disposal

Clothing typologies and personal taste are determining factors that influence people to purchase and discard them in the same way. Design features, such as colour, shape, and texture, are characteristics that define the quality of the items that the market used to buy and use daily. However, regardless the quality concept, the comfort is a feature that has prevailed for decades and promotes the condition of the articles being perpetual in the wardrobe. Nowadays many people give clothes to family or friends that they do not use anymore or also discarded them in appropriate containers but not always these ever-growing practices still happen with all types of clothing. Underwear, or more precisely Lingerie, is being part of dress often overlooked by users when someone make questions, it is rarely both donated to and reused by others even still be bought and discarded alongside other types. The present study is the result of a literary review on the lingerie consumption in western women and about its practice of discarding it, aiming to envisage more sustainable design practices in the creation of this type of pieces, having account human, social and environmental factors.