Clothing Knowledge Hubs
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141
Level: 141
Header Text: Stitch-free technologies
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Body Text: <p><a href="http://www.uniformreuse.co.uk/reports-case-studies.php?report=2" target="_blank">Stitch-free technologies</a> can include ultrasonic welding or thermoplastic and heat bonding and through the fusing of layers of fabric, eliminate the need for stitching.</p> <p>Currently these stitch-free technologies are mainly used for the manufacture of performance clothing and footwear, however, research into the possibilities of reversing these processes, thus enabling the recovery of the fabric for reuse, is a promising avenue for further testing and development.</p>
Level: 141
Header Text: Stitch-free technologies
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Body Text: <p><a href="http://www.uniformreuse.co.uk/reports-case-studies.php?report=2" target="_blank">Stitch-free technologies</a> can include ultrasonic welding or thermoplastic and heat bonding and through the fusing of layers of fabric, eliminate the need for stitching.</p> <p>Currently these stitch-free technologies are mainly used for the manufacture of performance clothing and footwear, however, research into the possibilities of reversing these processes, thus enabling the recovery of the fabric for reuse, is a promising avenue for further testing and development.</p>
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142
Level: 142
Header Text: Dissolvable joints
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Body Text: <p>Innovation focusing on biodegradable and dissolvable materials is on-going across a variety of research and conceptual projects and may inspire the development of sustainable and commercially viable alternatives to existing joining methods used in industry.</p> <p>Katie Ledger has explored this concept for her <a href="http://yulimuses.blogspot.com/2012/06/shed-me-clothes-alternative-to-fast.html" target="_blank">'Shed Me Clothes'</a> collection, which utilises PVA non-toxic water soluble yarn to connect an intricate fabric layering system. When the top or bottom layer of the fabric is sprayed with water, the yarn will dissolve to allow the layer to peel away, revealing another layer.</p>
Level: 142
Header Text: Dissolvable joints
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Body Text: <p>Innovation focusing on biodegradable and dissolvable materials is on-going across a variety of research and conceptual projects and may inspire the development of sustainable and commercially viable alternatives to existing joining methods used in industry.</p> <p>Katie Ledger has explored this concept for her <a href="http://yulimuses.blogspot.com/2012/06/shed-me-clothes-alternative-to-fast.html" target="_blank">'Shed Me Clothes'</a> collection, which utilises PVA non-toxic water soluble yarn to connect an intricate fabric layering system. When the top or bottom layer of the fabric is sprayed with water, the yarn will dissolve to allow the layer to peel away, revealing another layer.</p>
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143
Level: 143
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>Around 1.8 million tonnes of waste - 28 kg per person - are caused during the production, use and disposal of the clothes in use each year in the UK [1]. Alternative joining methods could enable increased reuse and recycling of material, which would reduce waste and provide environmental benefits by displacing the need for new materials and clothing.</p> <p>For example, a recent study found that every tonne of reused UK clothing and household textiles provides an average net carbon saving of four tonnes (CO<sub>2</sub>eq). Every tonne recycled gives a 0.7 tonne net saving [2].</p>
Level: 143
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>Around 1.8 million tonnes of waste - 28 kg per person - are caused during the production, use and disposal of the clothes in use each year in the UK [1]. Alternative joining methods could enable increased reuse and recycling of material, which would reduce waste and provide environmental benefits by displacing the need for new materials and clothing.</p> <p>For example, a recent study found that every tonne of reused UK clothing and household textiles provides an average net carbon saving of four tonnes (CO<sub>2</sub>eq). Every tonne recycled gives a 0.7 tonne net saving [2].</p>
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144
Level: 144
Header Text: Virtual wardrobe
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Body Text: <p>The use of social media enables easy and convenient wardrobe regeneration through online interaction.</p> <p><a href="https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/g29015986/clothes-swap-apps/" target="_blank">The Closet Swap iPhone app</a> allows users to trade unwanted clothing virtually by uploading pictures or tagging existing Facebook photos to build a virtual wardrobe for sharing or swapping with their friends.</p>
Level: 144
Header Text: Virtual wardrobe
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Body Text: <p>The use of social media enables easy and convenient wardrobe regeneration through online interaction.</p> <p><a href="https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/g29015986/clothes-swap-apps/" target="_blank">The Closet Swap iPhone app</a> allows users to trade unwanted clothing virtually by uploading pictures or tagging existing Facebook photos to build a virtual wardrobe for sharing or swapping with their friends.</p>
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Level: 145
Header Text: Style-sharing community hub
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Body Text: <p>Creating online communities to encourage and support the user in 'good wardrobe practice' goes beyond sharing and swapping of unwanted clothes.</p> <p>The Good Wardrobe is a free style-sharing community hub to promote and provide tips and services that prolong the life of clothes, involving the user to contribute to review shops, sites and services to grow the community.</p>
Level: 145
Header Text: Style-sharing community hub
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Body Text: <p>Creating online communities to encourage and support the user in 'good wardrobe practice' goes beyond sharing and swapping of unwanted clothes.</p> <p>The Good Wardrobe is a free style-sharing community hub to promote and provide tips and services that prolong the life of clothes, involving the user to contribute to review shops, sites and services to grow the community.</p>
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146
Level: 146
Header Text: Wardrobe longevity
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Body Text: <p>On top of online services and experiences, communities can be built and extended through involving the consumer in physical workshops and events.</p> <p>Through her label Keep & Share, Amy Twigger Holroyd explores the role of the designer in order to facilitate long-term consumer satisfaction by creating emotional connections, thus creating a long-term, sustainable fashion experience.</p>
Level: 146
Header Text: Wardrobe longevity
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Body Text: <p>On top of online services and experiences, communities can be built and extended through involving the consumer in physical workshops and events.</p> <p>Through her label Keep & Share, Amy Twigger Holroyd explores the role of the designer in order to facilitate long-term consumer satisfaction by creating emotional connections, thus creating a long-term, sustainable fashion experience.</p>
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Level: 147
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>The reuse of clothing can provide significant environmental benefits by reducing production and consumption of new garments.</p> <p>The estimated savings are influenced significantly by the extent to which reused clothes displace the need for new clothing and its associated environmental impacts. Recent WRAP research has estimated the dsiplacement rate for clothing re-used in the UK to be about 28%, which means that for every 100 second-hand garments bought, 28 new garments are displaced [1].
Level: 147
Header Text: Metrics
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Body Text: <p>The reuse of clothing can provide significant environmental benefits by reducing production and consumption of new garments.</p> <p>The estimated savings are influenced significantly by the extent to which reused clothes displace the need for new clothing and its associated environmental impacts. Recent WRAP research has estimated the dsiplacement rate for clothing re-used in the UK to be about 28%, which means that for every 100 second-hand garments bought, 28 new garments are displaced [1].
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148
Level: 148
Header Text: Consumer action
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Body Text: <p>According to a <a href="http://www.levistrauss.com/sustainability/innovative-practices/planet/life-cycle-of-a-jean/" target="_blank">life cycle analysis</a> conducted by Levi Strauss & Co on a range of their products, the majority of water consumption occurs at the cotton growing and consumer use stages. </p> <p>In response, Levi Strauss & Co. launched A Care Tag for Our Planet to encourage consumers to wash less, wash in cold, line dry, and donate when no longer needed. They also launched their waterless jean collection to address water use during manufacturing and this <a href="http://www.store.levi.com/waterless/doingyourpart.html" target="_blank">interactive website</a> further educates the consumer on the global demand for clean water, while encouraging the small actions that can be taken to reduce the use and waste of water.
Level: 148
Header Text: Consumer action
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Body Text: <p>According to a <a href="http://www.levistrauss.com/sustainability/innovative-practices/planet/life-cycle-of-a-jean/" target="_blank">life cycle analysis</a> conducted by Levi Strauss & Co on a range of their products, the majority of water consumption occurs at the cotton growing and consumer use stages. </p> <p>In response, Levi Strauss & Co. launched A Care Tag for Our Planet to encourage consumers to wash less, wash in cold, line dry, and donate when no longer needed. They also launched their waterless jean collection to address water use during manufacturing and this <a href="http://www.store.levi.com/waterless/doingyourpart.html" target="_blank">interactive website</a> further educates the consumer on the global demand for clean water, while encouraging the small actions that can be taken to reduce the use and waste of water.
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149
Level: 149
Header Text: Consumer stories
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Body Text: <p>Imaginative existing user habits, such as repair, adapt, share and pass on, can be shared to inspire and propose global solutions to problems associated with the consumption of fashion. </p> <p>Local Wisdom is a project developed by Dr Kate Fletcher, Reader in Sustainable Fashion at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, that explores satisfying and resourceful user practices, by asking members of the public in seven centres of high fashion consumption across three continents, to share items of clothing and associated practices, through a series of community photo shoots.</p>
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Header Text: Consumer stories
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Body Text: <p>Imaginative existing user habits, such as repair, adapt, share and pass on, can be shared to inspire and propose global solutions to problems associated with the consumption of fashion. </p> <p>Local Wisdom is a project developed by Dr Kate Fletcher, Reader in Sustainable Fashion at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, that explores satisfying and resourceful user practices, by asking members of the public in seven centres of high fashion consumption across three continents, to share items of clothing and associated practices, through a series of community photo shoots.</p>
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Level: 150
Header Text: Consumer creation
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Body Text: <p>Going beyond a garment's first life and use-phase, new products and ongoing narratives can be created by involving the consumer through mindful garment donation. </p> <p>The Schmidttakahashi fashion label explores the use of castoffs in radical new ways by involving the consumer in telling and creating the garment's "Reanimation' story, through the use of QR codes that bring together the garment's past, present and future.</p>
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Header Text: Consumer creation
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Body Text: <p>Going beyond a garment's first life and use-phase, new products and ongoing narratives can be created by involving the consumer through mindful garment donation. </p> <p>The Schmidttakahashi fashion label explores the use of castoffs in radical new ways by involving the consumer in telling and creating the garment's "Reanimation' story, through the use of QR codes that bring together the garment's past, present and future.</p>