Ecological way to create garment
Upcycling
Vintage clothes
Natural Dyeing
Definition
Advantage
Since it is made up with existing material, it doesn't require the money, energy, and water needed for manufacture process
Definition
Advantage
How to take this into action?
Get the leftover pieces from the garment manufacturing factory.
Using leftover pieces and crop waste while creating clothes
The clothes that is once worn by others
Can buy the vintage clothes in cheap price
Do not have to throw away the old clothes
Can easily buy or collect
How to take this into action?
Put the box in school and encourage people to put the clothes that they do not wear in it. After few weeks, collect the box and use the clothes as the part of the garment creating process.
Definition
Natural dyeing is the method that uses the colors from nature, such as plants, minerals and vegetables.
Advantage
Ethical method to create the material needed for creating garment
Easily dye the clothes (natural dying center)
How to take this into action?
Around the school campus, there is a natural dying center, which I can dye the clothes. Communicating with the natural dying center and dye the clothes needed for creating garment.
Even if I could not participate the program running in the natural dying center, I can easily do the natural dying by myself or buy the natural dying fabric
Can easily get in the manufacturing factory
Can use diverse materials, which means it is able to create unique garment