Mending clothes instead of buying new ones is not only great for the planet: It'll help you feel better, too. 🌍
If you don’t know how to sew, but are interested in mending, let me just remind you that right now is the perfect time to learn a new skill — especially one that can have a positive impact on the world . Staying creatively occupied can help with anxiety, but mending in particular can help with the modern phenomenon that isbecause it’s a concrete way of taking action against the unsustainable practices of the fashion industry.
The rise of fast fashion has given way to massive amounts of pollution and waste. Clothes are made quickly and cheaply to keep up with ever-changing trends and consumer demand, as well as to give people access to trends that they might not otherwise be able to afford. But the products aren’t made to last. This allows some people to be less intentional about their purchases, because the stakes seem low — queue someone buying a dress for a single night out and never wearing it again.
Mending is an act of resistance; a rejection of the kind of capitalism that puts profit before the planet. Mending is activism . It sends a message that we care about reducing waste and minimizing our environmental impact, that we don’t need to buy into trends or buy anything at all, really. We care enough to invest our time into fixing what we have, and to embed something deeply personal into it: our own handiwork.
The other aspect of mending is mindfulness. When you take the time to learn how to sew and repair your own clothes, you’re forced to slow down and are able to reflect on the task at hand, or perhaps on other aspects of your lives that need mending, like relationships or habits that don’t serve you.
With so much normalcy being disrupted already, it may hardly seem like the time to transform the way you think about your wardrobe. But this global pause may be an opportunity to reorient our practices to be better for the planet, and our own mental health, because it brings with it a sense of clarity. Take for instance the fact that during the mandated lockdown in China, factory closures caused.
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