February is the month when we hug our woollens closer but fast fashion relentlessly shoves us into a future that is always about to be replaced by the next future. In the four fashion seasons since I wrote about Change Clothes Crumlin https://www.changeclothes.org/, the brilliant Mary Fleming and Oileán Carter-Stritch have put together an alternative retail experience that allows us to scratch the new season itch without breaking the bank or the planet. READ MORELike those capsule wardrobes fast fashion used to flog us, Change Clothes Crumlin is a capsule solution. They need larger premises to make more of those connections where one person’s tired piece is another person’s thrill. They need more men to take their clothes to the rails and come home with a bag of new-to-them stuff.

Source: The Irish Times February 26, 2024 15:33 UTC