In my digital photo archives it first appears in 2002. On a lost morning somewhere in the second half of the 1990s I dropped by at my favourite clothes shop, just looking around, because I didn't really need anything specific. The saleswomen were busy unpacking some boxes with new arrivals. When one of the boxes [...]
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A Yellow Sweater
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Being kind to the animals
A member of a local knitting group posted this announcement on their Facebook page: Asos plans to ban mohair, cashmere and silk from next year and noted in the comments that they hadn’t known that there were any animal welfare issues related to mohair. The question is not if animal welfare issues do exist. They do. …
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Slow Fashion Market
Last Saturday was Oxfam Day here in Brussels in one of those splendid buildings at Tour & Taxis. The theme of the day was fair fashion and on the program there were a Fashion Show, a Slow Fashion Market and a series of Do It Yourself Workshops. We decided that we had to be there with …
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