Do you need another pair of plain black sandals when you already have three of these and summer in the city only lasts a month? Is it really necessary to have another flowered dress if there is a whole stack of them in the closet? The rule does not apply except perhaps to the basic things: if you were lucky once and you found the perfect T-shirt, shirt, or black trousers, it would not be superfluous to buy several pieces at once.
In the new world of conscious consumption, we must be responsible for every item - even ordinary jeans and a T-shirt. No matter how beautiful, for example, fashionable plastic shoes are, they will be present in the life of our planet for another couple of hundred years, and when decomposed, they will spread harmful substances into the soil. It makes sense to buy things from natural materials not only from an ethical point of view: a synthetic acrylic sweater will go into the trash in a couple of seasons, while a natural wool option will get bored rather than spoil.