Hacking Fashion: Denim

Hacking Fashion: Denim book cover — 21st Century Skills InnovatIon LIbrary MakerS as Innovators Hacking Fashion Denim Cherry Lake PubLishing ann arbor MiChigan by kristin Fontichiaro

Hacking Fashion: Denim — page 1 — MakerS as innovaTors Chapter 1 Thrifting for Denim a re you a fashion hacker Do you want to shorten dye fringe cut or change clothes to make them your own If so this book is for you We live in the era of fast fashion Clothes are cheaper and more abundant than ever before On the one hand this is great news We have endless fashion choices at low prices But there are disadvantages too Sometimes cheap clothes don’t hold up well over time Most of the clothes we wear are also made in You can ﬁnd tons of great clothes and materials at low prices by shopping at thrift stores 4

Hacking Fashion: Denim — page 2 — Hacking FasHion Denim Shopping at thrift stores is a great way to cut down on the amount of clothing that gets thrown away distant countries This means natural resources such as gas and coal are used to transport the clothes halfway around the world to your local mall Worse much of the world’s clothing is made in places where working con ditions are poor People work long hours for little pay Meanwhile more new clothes mean more dis carded clothes Sometimes old clothes even end up at landfills This adds to the huge amount of garbage we already have It’s better when people donate old clothes 5

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