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The knee-length skirts and dresses were the most oversized items of this 1950s. The introduction of new fabrics, including Terylene, Orlon, Banlon, Acrilan and Poplin, allowed for new fashion styles to be both created and introduced. Among these were the "wash-and-wear" sweater, the permanently pleated skirt, and the "drip-dry" skirt.
Feed sack dresses, flour sack dresses, or feedsack dresses were a common article of clothing in rural US and Canadian communities from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century. They were made at home, usually by women, using the cotton sacks in which flour, sugar, animal feed, seeds, and other commodities were packaged, shipped, and sold.
Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.
MILAN — After two years into the pandemic, cliché statements about the emergency representing an opportunity to retool one’s business values and find renewed energy seem to be actually true.
So, you dropped $300 on an eccentrically-colored bridesmaid dress with a giant bow for one night of dancing and wine stains. Now what?
At least 25 million people, the majority of whom are women, work in garment manufacture. [73] Women and workers in the garment manufacturing industry face serious occupational hazards. Worker exposure to hazardous substances can affect health and lead to long-term occupational diseases, posing major challenges to worker well-being and industry ...
Popular shirts, coats, and dresses from this time included puffer jackets made from upcycled deadstock fabric, sweatshirts, high waisted pants, tucked-in sweaters, camisoles and crop tops, lowrise miniskirts, [78] brocade topcoats, [75] midriff-baring tops, ribbed turtlenecks, garish Ed Hardy style T-shirts with rhinestones, [72] off-the ...
Upcycling – Recycling waste into products of higher quality; Used good – Item that is not new being sold or transferred; Waste minimisation – Process that involves reducing the amount of waste produced in society; Zero waste – Philosophy that encourages the redesign of resource life cycles so that all products are reused