National Geographic just did an issue on plastic with this confronting plastic iceberg image by artist Jorge Gamboa on the cover. Countdown is promising to remove all single use plastic bags by the end of 2018. The news has started a sewing spree by a Blenheim Hospice shop. They are sewing lovely reusable fabric bags out of recycled material and selling…
I was on the train last week minding my own business, and a group of high school students boarded and sat right behind me. They got onto the subject of where they buy their clothes, it was all; “Oh, H&M all the way” and “I LOVE Zara” … BUT the main focus was the price of items. One student said…
I’ve already mentioned the charity efforts of the Kookai label, and here is one of their lovely dresses which I found in the St Vinnies for $20. The neck line was odd, but I loved the pattern and colour and so I took a punt. After an afternoon of battling with modifying it, I finally figured out a good solution…
“Forever New” – It really is the perfect name for a clothing store in our society. Just think about it, selling clothes has everything to do with making you feel a certain way – both about the things you already have, and the things they are trying to sell you. It invokes a desire for the newest and latest. It’s…
In recent news, A St Vincent de Paul op shop in Wellington has been teaching people to sew. With the help of 30 volunteers – some avid sewers, some just learning – they are re-purposing unusable clothing into outfits for their kids, taking hotel sheets and sewing them into bassinet sheets, and saving unwanted fabric from being ragged or discarded. You…
I love shopping. There I said it. And I’m not alone. Retail sales of clothing, footwear and accessories which made about $1.7 billion in NZ sales in 1996 had grown to around $3.3 billion in 2014. Now it’s even harder to track with the ever-growing availability of online shopping stores to New Zealand such as Asos, Zara and H&M. Currently…