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Jersey dress, wool and knit trim: Made from a men's long sleeve t-shirt with ruffled hems and neckline from a women's sweater and hand knit wool trim from a scarf. by Deborah Paulino “Fashion is not something that exists only in dresses. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” .. Coco Chanel
Saving the economy is easy and you can stay fashionable and save money and the planet at the same time. Clothing and fabric scrap take up a huge amount of landfill. Add to that the environmental costs of packaging, transport, color dying, printing, and laundry and it creates an enormous and dangerous carbon footprint. This is the reason why fashion designed with recycled materials comes as a welcome an ancient fashion movement, reinvented and dubbed "Reconstruction". Read more »