Posts in the Repair category

• Fashioning Purpose & Value from Charity Shops to your Wardrobe

  

  By TRAID.

  November 2, 2023

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  • International Development
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  Today’s hyper-consumerist culture has sent the 20-year trend cycle into retirement and instead promoted the more dangerous fast fashion trend […] Read More...

• Life in Plastic Isn’t So Fantastic

  

  By TRAID.

  November 2, 2023

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  Is the sky turning millennium pink or is that just the latest marketing for the Barbie movie? The box office […] Read More...

• A TOAST To Reuse

  

  By TRAID.

  October 5, 2023

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  • International Development
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  In July we announced our partnership with the lifestyle brand TOAST. Now three months into the partnership with a donation […] Read More...

• TRAID x Blanc

  

  By BLANC.

  December 11, 2020

  • Climate Crisis
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  6 Tips to Reduce Your Fashion Footprint We asked the lovely team at BLANC – the UK’s leading eco friendly […] Read More...

• Queen’s Park Community School Support Local Repair Cafe

  

  By Sarah.

  October 29, 2018

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Events
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Up-cycling
  Year 9 students from Queen’s Park Community School in Brent were tasked with creatively repairing and altering damaged garments donated […] Read More...

• No More Percs

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  November 6, 2017

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  “While we focus on eco friendly ways of caring for the clothes people want to keep, it’s great to also […] Read More...

• Measuring The Impact Of Repair

  

  By Sarah Klymkiw.

  August 2, 2017

  • #secondhandfirst
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Education
  • Events
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  • volunteering
  Our clothes sorting warehouse buried deep in an industrial estate in Wembley in North West London is where clothes donated […] Read More...

• Restart, Mend and Maintain

  

  By Sarah Klymkiw.

  February 3, 2016

  • #secondhandfirst
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Education
  • Events
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  • volunteering
  The New Year offers us the opportunity to reflect on our behaviours, well-being and lifestyle, ripe for looking back on […] Read More...

• GUEST BLOG POST: Tom of Holland, The Master Mender

  

  By Sarah Klymkiw.

  November 27, 2015

  • #secondhandfirst
  • Education
  • Events
  • Repair
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Uncategorized
  We’re HUGE fans of Tom Van Deijnen AKA Tom of Holland at TRAID. His beautiful blog showcases his talent at […] Read More...

• Our Love Affair With Repair

  

  By Sarah Klymkiw.

  February 16, 2015

  • #secondhandfirst
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Education
  • Events
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Uncategorized
  • volunteering
  Our relationship with material things is unique and complicated. Beyond the initial excitement of being the owner of something new […] Read More...