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Waste Reduction Week: Upcycled T-Shirts
This past August we featured a series that focused on five fast fashion facts and five questions with a sustainable, slow fashion brand. In this instalment of the series, we shared that fast fashion has driven consumers to purchase, and dispose of, many more garments than in the past. Furthermore, due to the poor quality of many of these textiles, most are not able to be recycled or sold in second-hand shops. As this is Textiles Tuesday in #wastereductionweek we’re sharing a few ways to re-use your old t-shirts that will keep them in use, keep them out of landfills, and maybe replace a single-use disposable item as well! Dryer…
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Celebrating 100 Blog Posts With Our Most Popular Reads
Today we are celebrating our 100th blog post! And to mark that milestone, we thought we’d share some of our most popular posts with you. Here are 10 of our readers’ favourite posts. Top Posts for Slow Fashion From this year’s slow fashion series, our top posts include a visible mending tutorial, a how-to guide to hosting your own clothing swap, and a feature on one of our favourite Canadian sustainable fashion brands. Visible Mending: What’s Old Can Be New Again Sustainable Children’s Wear: fairechild How to Host a Clothing Swap Top Posts for Living Plastic Free We participated in Plastic Free July for the first time this year and…
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How to Host a Clothing Swap
Clothing swaps are one of my favourite things. Anything that combines saving money, shopping, and some time with friends is a good thing in my books! A clothing swap is a chance for you to pass on your unused clothes to others who will enjoy them and for you to add some new items to your closet. We’ve mentioned in our post about sustainable choices saving money that purchasing one less new clothing item a year can save 6-billion pounds of carbon emissions. So clothing swaps are sustainable for your budget and the environment. In this post I have a “How To” guide on hosting a clothing swap along with…
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Sustainable Women’s Wear: LEZÉ the Label
This month we are featuring a fashion series focused on five fast fashion facts and five questions with a sustainable, slow fashion brand. Why we should care about fast fashion and sustainable fashion Merriam Webster defines fast fashion as: “an approach to the design, creation, and marketing of clothing fashions that emphasizes making fashion trends quickly and cheaply available to consumers.” In our consumer driven society, that doesn’t sound all bad since we love having things quickly and cheaply at our fingertips. But the impacts of fast fashion on people and the environment are huge. This month we will be sharing some facts about fast fashion to emphasize why we need to…
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Sustainable Children’s Wear: fairechild
This month we are featuring a fashion series focused on five fast fashion facts and five questions with a sustainable, slow fashion brand. Why we should care about fast fashion and sustainable fashion Merriam Webster defines fast fashion as: “an approach to the design, creation, and marketing of clothing fashions that emphasizes making fashion trends quickly and cheaply available to consumers.” In our consumer driven society, that doesn’t sound all bad since we love having things quickly and cheaply at our fingertips. But the impacts of fast fashion on people and the environment are huge. This month we will be sharing some facts about fast fashion to emphasize why we need to…
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Visible Mending: What’s Old Can Be New Again
Visible mending is the concept of showcasing a repair to an item of clothing rather than attempting to conceal it. Where the idea came from When we were researching the idea of slow fashion, the concept of upcycling and mending existing clothing were clearly a big part of reducing the impact of the fast fashion industry on our environment. Simply put, the more we wear our clothes and the fewer new clothes we need, the better it is for the environment! As a regular mender I was fascinated by the concept of visible mending. All of my mending attempts in the past centred around trying to return the item to…
