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"Can circular business models ever solve fashion’s big overproduction problem?"
#Fashion #FastFashion #Textiles #Clothes
https://www.edie.net/can-circular-business-models-ever-solve-fashions-big-overproduction-problem/
There are a lot more people selling second hand clothes than there are people buying them. I kinda knew that already, but trying to sell my own stuff has opened my eyes to how bad the problem is.
My body expanded significantly during pregnancy and those hips are never going to shrink back. So I’m selling stuff I know will never fit again. It’s good quality stuff, used by still in excellent state.
And I can’t sell it. No one is buying, even though I sell at about 10% of the new price. #clothes
Repairing Our Clothes 
Thanks to the latest WRAP report (Feb 2025) we finally have some statistics about how choosing to #repair our #clothes and buying #SecondHand is having an impact.
A few key points >>>
#Repairing our clothes has been shown to displace the need for buying new items by 82%.
This shows that we’re placing value on the pieces already in our wardrobes, showing the #BigCompanies that we don’t want to keep replacing items,
"How clothes that would otherwise go to the landfill end up in vintage lovers' closets"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/clothes-landfill-fashion-vintage-lindsay-scarrow-1.7475690
"Ghazipur landfill: The 70-acre 'garbage mountain of Delhi' - where nearby residents are being 'slowly poisoned'"
#mending #clothes #darn sort of..#art #life #beinganartist
Stop ghana from becoming Europe's textile waste dumpsite https://pages.greenpeaceafrica.org/stop-ghana-from-becoming-europes-textile-waste-dumpsite
"Fast furniture is terrible for the environment – here are five ways to spot it"
"Clothing and textile waste: M&S, Tesco and partners post success with innovative recycling schemes"
"EU targets food and fast fashion in new war on waste"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #FastFashion #Textiles #Clothes
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/19/eu-targets-food-and-fast-fashion-in-new-war-on-waste
* prohibit stone-washed jeans
* prohibit pre-cut jeans
An elderly Taiwanese couple have become a viral sensation in Taiwan by wearing clothes left behind by their customers. After spending decades running a laundromat in the city of Taichung, the couple, 84 & 83, have now become a hit after their grandson created an account for them. Any item left at a laundromat for over a year is considered fair use.
The couple pose in these pieces, which they pair with accessories like hats & sunglasses – for a more youthful look.
"Allbirds launches net-zero carbon shoe without offsets"
https://www.edie.net/allbirds-launches-net-zero-carbon-shoe-without-offsets/
The company asked them to come to work in clothes they used to wear in their zoom meetings.
It would definitely be more fun if people could dress as they wish. It raises an interesting point about workplace dress codes.
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#TackyTuesday invades our lives every #Tuesday with #wacky and #tacky #kitch #clothes and #memes. Post something tacky and use the tag!
"Big-name fashion brands forge new collaboration to tackle footwear waste"
https://www.edie.net/big-name-fashion-brands-forge-new-collaboration-to-tackle-footwear-waste/
Hermitage 
Netelo 
"Paltry wages in Bangladesh, child labour and trafficking in human beings in China: our investigation reveals that #Decathlon’s main suppliers in Asia resort to several forms of modern slavery. These outrageous production conditions are the consequence of cost pressure imposed by the French brand on its subcontractors. Decathlon’s partners also include factories which get their leather supplies from cattle retail giants."
https://disclose.ngo/en/article/decathlon-revelations-on-a-champion-of-exploitation