Slay with Eco-smart fashion

Eco friendly fashion known as sustainable fashion or ethical fashion are often used interchangeably should first and foremost be about reducing fashion consumption. Reducing our own footprint starts by being mindful of consumption and waste. This ultimately means buying less and purchasing only what we need. When a garment is damaged, many think nothing more of chucking it out and replacing it with something new. However many items can be repaired easily for example sew back a new button when it’s missing. We can mend a seam that is coming apart and darn a sock or sweater. As Australia is the second most wasteful society with 650 kg of waste per person sent to landfill each year, we need to start changing the mindset of throwing fashion items away which can be repair, recycle and repurpose.

Instead of throwing items that we no longer need in the trash, we can recycle those. There are two ways to do this, we can either donate items to a charity or opportunity shop as they will recycle our goods or turn our trash into someone else’s treasure. Or we can recycle the fabrics by turning it into another garment known as upcycling. We can choose to donate our second hand items to increasing numbers of designers who will happily receive and recycle unwanted garments. Repurposed fashion is similar to upcycling in that it is a form of recycling but unlike upcycling where fashion is altered to create an item with a similar purpose. Repurposing involves altering it so that it is given an entirely new purpose or use, for example is turning an old jeans pants into a tote bag.

Reinventing wardrobe goes hand in hand with buying less and also involves being creative. Let’s be honest with ourselves it’s easy to go shopping for an item that we want because it’ll ‘complete’ our outfits. So much more creativity is involved in looking at existing closet and finding outfit goodness. So reinventing closet involves creating new outfits that we may otherwise not have considered. In an effort to stave off style boredom, we need to put our creative thinking cap on and began to see combinations we hadn’t seen before and application like Pinterest can be so handy to draw inspiration from. We can start thinking ourselves like fashion stylists with zero budget. Eco friendly fashion means more than just purchasing from 'eco' fashion house. It doesn't solely focus on how we shop and encourages us to look at our existing relationship with our existing wardrobe.

Source- http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-21/upcycled-the-art-of-turning-old-clothes-into-new-fashion/6635700

Image Source- http://alldaychic.com/denim-bag-diy/

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