https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus en-us 2023-03-29 12:38:35 UTC 2026-01-14 19:26:42 UTC hello@padlet.com ak28106 https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus/wish/2561749234 Around 3 million years ago when humans started wearing the first clothes, it was intended to protect the body from the environment, but as time progressed fashion has made its mark in history as a sign of wealth or status, fashion in more ancient times was made out of animal skin, but as civilization progressed people started using the loom to weave clothing material, the ancient greeks often wore clothing such a linen in hot weather, but on a very rare occasion when it was cold they would wear wool. Then materials started to become more diverse. Take silk for example, silk was discovered and made in China in the Neolithic Yangshao culture which was then kept a secret for 3,000 years, anyone who tried to export it would be put to death. Later China did eventually trade with other countries sharing their precious silk. Silk was very expensive and still is today because of how soft it is, it is considered a luxury product. Back then people would sew their pants and dresses with a needle and thread but then an English inventor named Thomas Saint built the first ever sewing machine in 1790 but in 1804 when two other inventors tried to make a sewing machine of their own until following inventors modified it, but it wasn't until 1889 for when it was marketed and widely used. In America in the 1920’s, Rayon or artificial silk was most commonly used in clothing. Nowadays we use cotton or denim as a popular clothing material, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing

]]> 2023-04-20 12:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus/wish/2561749234 ak28106 https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus/wish/2562629263 Fashion is used for comfort and for style too, depending on where you are going too, your fashion choice can greatly affect the outcome of the situation, warm or cold weather, clothing can protect you from the harsh environment, but when us humans buy from a line that makes fast fashion we could be profiting harsh dangerous labor in garment factories which could have unsafe working conditions. For example the Rana Plaza Collapse in 2013 is a fantastic example for this industries dangerous history. The Rana Plaza was a building that housed five garment factories in Bangladesh that had thousands of people working their clothing line, before the collapse there had multiple concerns and reports about weakened foundations, but the supervisors had brushed it off until the building finally crumbled, 1,134 lives were lost. The main cause for the collapse was because of poor working conditions and being built on unsuitable land, therefore the accident could have been entirely prevented, which led to factories in Bangladesh to build better emergency exits and being forced to remove gates in the buildings vicinity. For this reason you should check the factories in which your clothing is being produced. You never know if you could be giving money to a dangerous working environment.

]]> 2023-04-21 01:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus/wish/2562629263 ak28106 https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus/wish/2563300220 Our clothing industry has become increasingly more wasteful, we throw away clothes that could still be used. For example it is estimated around one garbage truck of clothing is burned or dumped in a landfill every second. First of all, why do we waste so much clothing nowadays? Well, the fashion industry produces A LOT of clothing, "the number of garments produced annually has doubled since 2000 and exceeded 100 billion for the first time in 2014." it says on the website "good on you". In 2017 it was unmasked that the popular clothing brand: H&M had been burning 12 TONS of clothing every single year since 2013. Due to this overproduction of clothing, it is harming the Earth greatly. While the industry is mass producing clothes, us consumers are also play a major part in the problem. 56 million tons of clothing are bought each year, but not only do we buy a whole lot of clothing. But as a result of new clothing being produced we throw away our clothing much more often than we did 15 years ago. The website "good on you" reports "The average American is said to throw away about 37kg/81 pounds of clothes every year." Unfortunately our clothing isn't as recyclable as we might like to think, a lot of our clothing is made out of plastic nowadays and plastic can take millions of years to decompose. Only 13.6% of our clothing can be recycled and only 12% makes it to recycling. This 12% will likely end up being shredded or burned to become furniture stuffing, as a result less than 1% gets recycled into brand new clothing. Now you might be thinking; "What if I just donate my old clothing?" while that might be a more sustainable approach, charities or thrift shops are sometimes forced to dispose of unwanted material  and 25% of that goes straight to a landfill and a extra 40-50% gets donated to problematic factories across the globe which leads to the clothing ending up in landfills. What are the solutions? Well, some good news is that some brands are making an effort to reduce their carbon footprint, some of their efforts are; using recycled material or deadstock fabrics, or taking back and reselling second hand products. One thing you can do to help is giving you old clothing to siblings or donating. Buying from brands that have a smaller carbon footprint could also help to save our Earth. 
https://goodonyou.eco/waste-luxury-fashion/

]]> 2023-04-21 14:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus/wish/2563300220 ak28106 https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus/wish/2563688938 Our fashion industry is one of the major contributions to pollution, their workers also get exploited quite a lot, how to fix the problem? A solution for that is to purchase organic clothing or recycled fabrics, you could also buy less but more durable clothing, try to avoid fast fashion companies and support local shops instead. I also suggest that you hand down old clothing to siblings instead of donating, because most of the clothing that gets handed over to donations or charities end up in a land fill. Attempt to fix clothes by yourselves and upcycle. Try to use clothing for different things like bags, stuffed animals etc. It's so easy to just hand down your clothes, not as much as a challenge as you thought it would be! 
https://www.onlineclothingstudy.com/2023/01/solutions-to-top-4-biggest-fashion.html]]> 2023-04-21 22:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ak28106/7ye1becl3pkfflus/wish/2563688938