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    The conscious closet : the revolutionary guide to looking good while doing good / Elizabeth L. Cline.

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    • Title:The conscious closet : the revolutionary guide to looking good while doing good / Elizabeth L. Cline.
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    • Author/Creator:Cline, Elizabeth L., author.
    • Published/Created:New York : Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
      ©2019

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Clothing trade--Social aspects.
      Clothing trade--Environmental aspects.
      Fashion--Environmental aspects.
      Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
      Clothing and dress--Purchasing.
      Shopping--Moral and ethical aspects.
      Environmental responsibility.
    • Description:xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
    • Summary:Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion's hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it. Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, The Conscious Closet is packed with the vital tools you need. Elizabeth delves into fresh research on fashion's impacts and shows how we can leverage our everyday fashion choices to change the world through style. Inspired by her own revelatory journey getting off the fast-fashion treadmill, Elizabeth shares exactly how to build a more ethical wardrobe, starting with a mindful closet clean-out and donating, swapping, or selling the clothes you don't love to make way for the closet of your dreams. The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth--fashion--into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. In The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth shows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes again--without sacrificing the environment, our morals, or our style in the process.
      Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, Cline shows how we can leverage our everyday fashion choices to change the world through style. She shares exactly how to build a more ethical wardrobe, starting with a mindful closet clean-out and donating, swapping, or selling the clothes you don't love to make way for the closet of your dreams. -- adapted from back cover.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-344).
    • ISBN:9781524744304 (paperback)
      1524744301 (paperback)
      9781524744311 (eBook)
      152474431X (eBook)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Goodbye, Fast Fashion!
      1. Conscious-Closet Cleanout
      2. Your Clothing Reuse Plan
      3. How to Do Good with Old Clothes
      4. Clothing Is Not Garbage
      5. Turn Castoffs into Cash
      6. Clothing Swaps Can Save the World
      pt. TWO Art of Less
      7. Stylish, Sustainable Power of Less
      8. Fashion Fast
      9. Upping Your Quality Game
      Q&A with Clothing Designer Karuna Scheinfeld
      10. Buying Better Footwear
      Q&A with Footwear Designer Carl Blakeslee
      11. Secrets of a Well-Built Wardrobe
      Q&A with Cladwell Founder Blake Smith
      12. Buying Less by Buying Better
      pt. THREE Art of More
      13. Keeping Up with Style, Consciously
      14. Rise of Resale Not Retail
      Q&A with thredUP Founder James Reinhart
      15. Thrift (and Vintage) Shop Like a Pro
      16. Rent Your Next Wardrobe
      Q&A with Manhattan Newspaper Editor Emily K.
      17. Yes, You Can Afford a Conscious Closet!
      pt. FOUR Sustainable Fashion Handbook
      18. Sustainable Fabric Lunatic
      19. Kick Nasty Chemicals Out of Your Closet
      Q&A with Jay Bolus of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
      20. Conscious Superstars and Better Big Brands
      Q&A with Kathleen Talbot, VP of Sustainability at Reformation
      Q&A with Cynthia Power, Director of Eileen Fisher Renew
      pt. FIVE Make It Last
      21. Our Clothes Have Got to Last Longer!
      22. Level Up Your Laundry
      23. Call in the Pros to Fix Your Clothes
      24. Mending, Patching, and Everyday Repairs
      Q&A with Kate Sekules, Founder of VisibleMending.com
      pt. SIX Fashion Revolution
      25. Welcome to the Fashion Revolution
      26. Where Are You Wearing?
      27. Living Wages Now
      Q&A with Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium
      28. Campus Activism Playbook
      29. Road Maps for Making Change
      Manifesto for a Fashion Revolution
      Q&A with Sarah Adler-Milstein, Coauthor of Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops.
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