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Comment on Garment Work: unpicking the global garment industry by Nuria

Nuria — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:09:22 +0000

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Comment on Garment Work: unpicking the global garment industry by Home-based and Garment Worker News, April 3 2012 | Inclusive Cities

Home-based and Garment Worker News, April 3 2012 | Inclusive Cities — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:30:00 +0000

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Comment on Garment Work: unpicking the global garment industry by Garment Work « Anne Elizabeth Moore

Garment Work « Anne Elizabeth Moore — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:04:36 +0000

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Comment on Steampunk Singer and Contemporary Textile Industry ‘Ustopias’ by Mila(da) Burcikova

Mila(da) Burcikova — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:14:27 +0000

Thank you, Robin, for another inspiring comment. I feel that your taking the favourite Howies jeans back to their workwear origins is a perfect illustration of the way different garments, their symbolism and their functions can travel
through time (and jeans, of course, have always been a particularly good example of this). Also, re-using the garments that can no longer serve their original function in other contexts (such as leisure or work) is a great way of respecting the natural life circle of our clothes. Because, as the text of a graffiti that Elizabeth Laskar (one of the founders of the Ethical Fashion Forum http://ethicalfashionforum.com) came across in Berlin reminds: “How can we throw things away when there is no away?”

Comment on Garment Work: unpicking the global garment industry by Deefactorial

Deefactorial — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:27:15 +0000

The conditions of chinese factory workers making blue jeans are atrocious .check out the documentry “china blue”. I do my best to make most my clothes and support local artists. Get Creative and find another way!

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Gabriel Russo — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:32:26 +0000

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Comment on Steampunk Singer and Contemporary Textile Industry ‘Ustopias’ by Robin wood

Robin wood — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:48:40 +0000

Good article Mila, and as I write this I am wearing a pair of howies super tough organic denim jeans. They sold em briefly about 4 years ago I bought 3 pairs and have worn little else since. At 4 years old they are no longer smart but still great workwear and take any amount of hard abuse. The list price at the time was around £180 a pair which is why I expect they didn’t sell well and were removed from the range. I thought they were expensive when I bought them at less than half price but with hindsight they were great value. Howies have been sold on but their old boss David Hieatt is about to reopen a jeans factory in Cardigan bay he is an inspiration http://davidhieatt.typepad.com/doonethingwell/2011/01/purpose-part-2.html

Comment on William Morris versus Steampunk, Steampunk versus William Morris? by Cacilda

Cacilda — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:58:43 +0000

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Comment on African pottery in South Africa: Life after the village by Steven Smith by Derick Browning

Derick Browning — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:06:13 +0000

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Comment on Steampunk – from ‘Satanic mills’ to 21st century DIY by Kylie

Kylie — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:32:08 +0000

I think that modern technologies can be a potential inspiration for craft through all stages of their life. From construction, to use, and then to recycling. I don’t always like to wait until something is no longer useful before I pull it apart and use it for something else.