Making baby's first garment from parent's hair--a natural choice for a society that strictly limits environmental impacts
In a society with high fees charged for environmental impacts, it might become customary to make children's clothes from parent's hair. (Some hair might make clothing that matches the 'hair-shirt' connotation, but maybe long, fine hair would feel more comfortable. Maybe it would all be used more as overgarments, though than as clothing meant to contact the skin. And not just for babies, either, but they would be a natural 'first step' application of the idea. 11:56 AM This is a lovely meditation on how honest pricing of environmental costs reshapes material culture in unexpected, intimate ways. The logic tracks well. If synthetic fibers carry fees reflecting their petrochemical origins, and if cotton and wool carry fees for land use, water, and agricultural inputs, then human hair — a renewable byproduct of living, requiring no additional resource extraction — becomes genuinely competitive. It's not a gimmick; it's what honest accounting would surface....