Tullia Jack
Associate senior lecturer
Fashioning use: A polemic to provoke pro-environmental garment maintenance
Author
Editor
- Miguel Angel Gardetti
- Ana Laura Torres
Summary, in English
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.
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
127-133
Publication/Series
Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles
Volume
1
Links
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Greenleaf Publishing Ltd
Topic
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Keywords
- Sustainable fashion
- Everyday life
- Social practices
- No-wash Enabling
- pro-environmental practices
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-1-906093-78-5