This 10-year old girl gave a brilliant summary of what she has learned in one of our Sustainable Fashion Courses!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5h-Q49qHLc
During this fashion club we learnt a lot of interesting, new and useful things about fashion like: how to turn trash to treasure, all about fashion combinations, DIY, how to wash your clothes, sewing, using sewing machines and more. The main lesson and purpose is to teach us how to use fashion and wear preferred clothes in a sustainable way so it doesn’t harm the planet.
There are a lot of things that are harming our planet, and it is estimated that most of this is caused by us (humans).
Fabrics, burning fossil fuels, air pollution, damage of the ozone layer, climate change, change of weather, change of natural environment, extinction of species, and the list goes on…
An important factor in the damage of the environment is wasting our natural resources that are used to produce clothes like: cotton, hemp, silk, and killing animals for fur, cashmere, and other materials. We also waste our most important resource, which is water. It is all caused by our not wanting to learn about redesign and DIY. We keep our clothes for a really short period of time because we get bored of them or don’t know how to take care of them properly. We also use a lot of plastic and artificial materials which last for a short period of time and release microfibres. One very prevalent material like this is polyester. We buy too many new things that we don’t need or end up not liking! You actually end up wasting loads of natural resources for things you may not even use. As a result, each year there are 80 billion pieces of clothing bought, which are seen as disposable. This is the reason why we learnt how to turn old ‘trash’ into treasure and care for our clothes so that they last longer.
We need to make a change, a big change, but how?
We don’t have enough power to make a huge change, but if really want to we can. When we hear the word ‘power’, we think of MPs who change the laws of the country. Will they help us make a big change? We can write a letter to urge them to do something about the waste of material. We can also protest about it. There are plenty of different ways. How about passing a law to limit the number of pieces of clothing you can buy each year related to age or organising a swap day at schools every week? Or fitting DIY into the learning curriculum? And what if they don’t answer? It can be complicated enough for us to start making small changes in our everyday life, which build up to a big change. Having learnt so many useful things, we can share and spread Little Hands Design’s message to as many people as we can and make a change to the way we think about fashion. Starting by decreasing the amount of clothing we buy; to lessen the waste of natural resources, avoiding plastic, and learning new ways to turn trash into treasure, not only with clothes but with other materials that we waste. That way, maybe our local MPs will listen to us! Let’s build to a big change with a small change every day- together!