Thrift Store
fast fashion, recycle, use and throw, secondhand, hand-me-downs, trendy, sustainable fabric, slow living, and many more words are associated with how we consume goods and what "should" we be doing for the planet or us. Thrifting is one way to address fast fashion in an accessible and comprehensive way.
Thrift sale: Fund Raising:
The students of Swostishree Gurukul were tasked with researchig about the cost of fashion and if possible conduct a thrift or second hand sale of their unused items to raise funds for their theatre program. The students had been tasked with finding a way to raise funds for their activities in a way that assists their understanding of the various factors responsible for climate change. One of them is Fast Fashion, and the subsequent marketing of it as an essential element of being a young person in this current age of the world.
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From the obvious pollution that is caused by the dyeing of the clothes, to the landfill sites being filled to the brim with clothes never worn, the channel of production, the way raw materials are sourced and those who do the sourcing of it, all of it is connected to climate change as we are experiencing now.
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If we put numbers to it, our human minds are incapable of visualising the scale of it for us to relate to it and therefore feel like it actually affects us. But they are and constantly the effect of our unfathomability is increasing. And it is important that we create a platform, a space where those who are affected in their daily lives, devastatingly or not, directly or knowingly or not, can come and start comprehending the subtle and glaring details of our living reality.
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Students will be doing an assessment research on ten of the items of clothing collected, and an additional assessment of five other materials they collect for their thrift store, that assessment will then be used to have discussions, and also lead into more research into who, what, why, and how of reducing individual impact, and also how to create a cultural shift on how we consume. It’s a slow moving glacier when it comes to adapting the realities of our current times into our mind and then acting accordingly, so each step will take time.
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With this task our expected tangible result is the research and understanding of the various ways our daily use items are manufactured and how they are connected to a lot of different things. And the intangible result we are hoping for is the change in our consumption behaviour, and a slow change in our cultural notions of accumulating status, and other immaterial notions through materials.
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