Savers field trip

Yesterday my class took a field trip to Savers to shop for our upcoming fashion show. We split up into groups of four to create lines of 3 to 4 garments made entirely out of thrifted materials. My group's theme is "Roses and thorns," and our palette is made up of black, denim, and blush. We wanted to give kind of a wealthy, bad-girl/boy attitude, and so we have leather, gold chains, fur, and bling. We also have lace to emphasize the femininity of the blush. Shopping at a thrift store is awesome because we were able to find high quality vintage pieces for very cheap. I'm so glad the popularity of thrifting is on the rise because the fast fashion industry is terrible for the enviroment and also unethical. Thrift stores remind us that clothing is not disposable. When you want to change up your look, there is no reason to not reuse and instead bring new clothing into this world that is already over saturated with garments. Even at Savers, which is a huge store, they get so many pieces of clothing a day they only sell about 10% of it.

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