Winter sales: What if we started by sorting, recycling and enhancing your clothes?

Winter sales: What if we started by sorting, recycling and enhancing your clothes?

Winter sales began on Wednesday January 12 to allow consumers to take advantage of attractive business in many sectors, including fashion.A subject that is debated at a time when overproduction and overconsumption are called into question in the face of climate urgency.Between frantic shopping sessions and the total absence of consideration for this period of promotions, there is a GAP which could be filled by new behaviors and purchasing habits.Sorting, recycling, second hand ... There are many solutions to have fun without (too much) harming the planet.

Do I really need this t-shirt that makes me eye in the window?Do I really have to feed my sneakers dressing room?Wouldn't it be possible to repair this jeans instead of replacing it?These questions, which were not a few years ago, took on their full meaning at the start of 2022, while the climate urgency weighs more and more among the concerns of consumers.If a large number of men and women want to work in favor of the planet, it is not always easy to adopt the right reflexes.And even more during sales periods, where promotions give the impression - true or false - to save considerable savings.The fact remains that it is possible today to adopt reflexes as beneficial for the environment as for your wallet.

Sort

The advantage of winter sales is that they take place at the start of the year.A good reason to make a big cleaning in your dressing room to determine if the parts found there have real use, but also if they are worn, even importable.The opportunity to take stock of what it is (really) necessary to buy, and especially on what is necessary to delete.And by that we mean, giving or selling, essentially, not throwing away, a gesture that is anything but beneficial for the environment.

Soldes d’hiver : et si on commençait par trier, recycler et valoriser ses vêtements ?

By dint of accumulation, for years, it is sometimes difficult to have an objective look at your dressing room.A sorting is often necessary to determine which clothes you no longer wear, which no longer go to you, or those who deserve (or not) a makeover.It is necessary to devote half a day, even a whole day to this sorting, and to make several batteries: I keep, I give, I sell, I repair, for example.

Earn money

Instead of counting on sales to save money, why not get started in the second hand to build a kitty that will be entirely dedicated to a more responsible fashion room?Many of the applications and used fashion platforms today offer a host of services to offer a second life to your clothes without (too much) to have to provide efforts.We concede it, it is sometimes difficult to separate from a piece that has become fetish over the years, but it probably deserves much better than the obscure funds of your wardrobe.

Videdressing, vined, collective cloakroom, The Realreal, Depop, or Emmaüs label ... Second -hand platforms are as diverse as they are varied, from luxury on the occasion of solidarity to more sharp versions.Impossible not to find happiness with, as a bonus, many associated services.

Recycle and repair

Trier permet aussi de mettre de côté les pièces usées par le temps, déchirées, trouées, ou défaillantes. S’il ne manque qu’un bouton, ou qu’il n’y a qu’un petit accroc, voire un ourlet à faire, il est aujourd’hui très facile de les réparer au lieu de les jeter. Dans un rapport, l’association Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) nous apprend que prolonger la durée de vie des vêtements de neuf mois supplémentaires permettrait de réduire leur empreinte carbone d’environ 20 à 30 %. De quoi faire du bien à la planète. Pour ce faire, il est possible de se tourner vers les innombrables tutoriels que l’on trouve sur internet – faut-il encore avoir quelques notions de couture, même lointaines – ou de faire appel à des professionnels avisés. Ce type de services revient en force, de Sojo à L’atelier 23/11, The Restory, ou Clothes Doctor, en passant par la plateforme Les Réparables.

And if the clothes in question are irrecoverable, then it is necessary to turn to recycling.Faced with the climate emergency, more and more fashion brands are proposing to recover your worn or unused clothes in exchange for vouchers, for example, making it possible to join the useful to the pleasant.

The second hand rather than the new

The fact remains that the sales last several weeks, and that it is not necessarily easy not to succumb to temptation.Since you have sorted your cupboards, there is no doubt that you will have put your finger on a deficit in socks, t-shirts, or other basic clothes, essential on a daily basis.The sales can then make it possible to bail out your dressing room by choosing more responsible products, designed from recycled or bio -based materials, or made locally, for example, which will last longer.

As for the favorite purchase, why not postpone it to said second -hand platforms?A handbag, a vintage dress, or even a knitted top ... It is now possible to have fun without breaking the bank, while minimizing the impact of your wardrobe on the planet.

(Etx Daily Up)