Tag: fashion

RECYCLE YOUR CLOTHES TO THOSE WHO NEED THEM…

Clothes Vintage

If you haven’t heard of the M&S Shwopping scheme then read this article.

M&S launched a shwopping unwanted clothes scheme with Oxfam with recycling bins – or Shwop Drops, which are in all M&S stores across the UK (except Simply Food ones).

You simply deposit your unwanted clothes (M&S and non-M&S) into the bins.

The target is for M&S to recycle as many clothes as it sells which is around 300 million items a year.

One million tonnes of clothes are thrown away in the UK each year and about half of these end up in landfill but none of the donations you give will go into landfill, instead good used clothing will be sold via Oxfam. Even ones that are not suitable to sell will be recycled.

For more details on this and other M&S environmental and ethical plans go to http://www.plana.marksandspencer.com

SEW CURVEY…

Vintage Patterns

With vintage fashions like above cooing back into fashion it was no surprise to find a site with curvesin mind. Sew Curvey Is a small business near Oxford in the UK, which specialises in corset making supplies.

It has corset making kits that come beautifully presented in a box containing everything you need to make  a corset.
 
Because they are beautifully packaged, they make an  ideal gift*!

Kits are supplied with a length of continuous steel boning in order that an exact fit can be obtained.  Pre-cut flat steels for the back of the corset are also supplied in each kit as corset patterns do not differ in length per size at the centre back.
 
This has to be the easiest way to lose a few inches without needing to diet :):)
 

AMAZING MENS VINTAGE WORN OUT WEAR…

Long live vintage

Men’s Vintage Fashion lovers must know about Richard and Cosmo Wire.

A father and son who have the most beautiful collection of old clothes, you have ever seen.

Based in a rambling building in Hackney Wick, where they live and work which has every available space covered with rails of historic clothes.

The father and son have spent a lot of time seeking worn-out work garments, which are more often than not pre 1930 and some as old as 1800 from rural France and Japan.

With their expertise in this field they have found contemporary ways to change the old clothes to be wearable and also to create new clothes inspired by these.

They dress in clothes from their collection and anyone seeing their range of clothes could only be inspired and amazed at their choice and workmanship.