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The conscious closet, the revolutionary guide to looking good while doing good, Elizabeth L. Cline

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-344)

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no index present

non fiction

The conscious closet

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Elizabeth L. Cline

the revolutionary guide to looking good while doing good

Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion's hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it. Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, The Conscious Closet is packed with the vital tools you need. Elizabeth delves into fresh research on fashion's impacts and shows how we can leverage our everyday fashion choices to change the world through style. Inspired by her own revelatory journey getting off the fast-fashion treadmill, Elizabeth shares exactly how to build a more ethical wardrobe, starting with a mindful closet clean-out and donating, swapping, or selling the clothes you don't love to make way for the closet of your dreams. The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth--fashion--into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. In The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth shows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes again--without sacrificing the environment, our morals, or our style in the process

How to use this book -- Part one: Goodbye, fast fashion! The conscious closet cleanout ; Your clothing reuse plan ; How to do good with old clothes ; Clothing is not garbage ; Turn castoffs into cash ; Clothing swaps can save the world -- Part two: The art of less. The stylish, sustainable power of less ; The fashion fast ; Upping your quality game ; Buying better footwear ; Secrets of a well-built wardrobe ; Buying less by buying better -- Part three: The art of more. Keeping up with style, consciously ; The rise of resale, not retail ; Thrift (and vintage) shop like a pro ; Rent your next wardrobe ; Yes, you can afford a conscious closet! -- Part four: The sustainable fashion handbook. Sustainable fabric lunatic ; Kick nasty chemicals out of your closet ; Conscious superstars and better big brands -- Part five: Make it last. Our clothes have got to last longer! ; Level up your laundry ; Call in the pros to fix your clothes ; Mending, patching, and everyday repairs -- Part six: The fashion revolution. Welcome to the fashion revolution ; Where are you wearing? ; Living wages now ; The campus activism playbook ; Road maps for making change ; Conclusion

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