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10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes

For an entire year, I have not bought new clothes, driven by evidence of the harm the fast fashion industry does to the environment and

We touch in so many ways, just not physically Tessa is at the garden gate and we lunge at each other. I want to hug

The art of sewing is stepping out of the closet as we take a stand against mindless consumption of damaging fast fashion. The need and

Durban was always going to be my big challenge a mere four-something months into my year of not buying new clothes. A visit to my

Could giving up buying new clothes be the biggest personal change you can make for the environment? That’s what The Guardian asked in an article on

Reinvention, Slow fashion

Today, I am wearing my most beautiful jeans and they are making me feel happy, so happy that I want to dance. Not even the