Fashioning use: A polemic to provoke pro-environmental garment maintenance

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Abstract

During fashion’s life cycle the highest environmental impacts come from use: the way people maintain clothes in everyday life. Considering the way clothes are used allows designers to embed pro-environmental practices in garments with vast resource conservation potential. This chapter provides examples of garment design that shape the way people wash clothes. No-wash garments are found to be most effective in influencing the way people use clothes when combined with communication and knowledge strategies, creating social acceptance of not washing in order to conserve critical environmental resources.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSustainability in Fashion and Textiles
EditorsMiguel Angel Gardetti, Ana Laura Torres
PublisherGreenleaf Publishing Ltd
Pages127-133
Volume1
ISBN (Print)978-1-906093-78-5
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

Name
Volume1

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Free keywords

  • Sustainable fashion
  • Everyday life
  • Social practices
  • No-wash Enabling
  • pro-environmental practices

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