Category: Fashion

Body Image, Dressmaking, Sustainable Fashion

What you discover about your body when you sew your own clothes

I’m almost halfway through my year of not buying clothes. What’s changed? Well, going cold turkey has completely shifted my mindset on shopping. From spending hundreds of dollars every month to nothing at all, this was a shock to the system to jolt me out of my bad habit. At this six month milestone I have set myself a new challenge: learning to sew my … Continue reading What you discover about your body when you sew your own clothes

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Fashion, Sustainable Fashion

Black Friday deals: what’s the damage?

Last Friday I woke up in my sleeping bag, on the floor of the wharenui (main meeting house) on Wairoa Marae in Tauranga, where I was learning more about the Māori economy, business, and the Treaty of Waitangi.  My key takeaway from my stay was that whereas western businesses’ metric of success is the bottom line, for Māori businesses there are multiple, interwoven goals: social, … Continue reading Black Friday deals: what’s the damage?

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Fashion, Sustainable Fashion

The biggest shopping day you’ve never heard of

Today marks the biggest shopping day of the year. Black Friday? Nope. Cyber Monday? Nope. Instead, it’s Singles’ Day, or 11.11, widely celebrated in China. Never heard of it? I hadn’t either, until today.  I’ve just passed my 100 day milestone of no new clothes shopping, so have been deliberately staying away from any ‘shopping festival’ or ‘shopping holiday’. But seeing online retailer Alibaba take … Continue reading The biggest shopping day you’ve never heard of

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