Bikinis made from recycled fishing nets. Wonder if they will swim in Arkansas?
Only if the nets had been used to catch catfish. 
But will they hold water?
Ahh, they wear daisy dukes and teeny bikini tops, around here. Occasionally the top pops out. (you know, wardrobe malfunction)
I lost my top at a pool once, diving.
I made my own bikini tops. The
material was probably not always the correct kind for swim wear.
The good ol’days.
I just read the whole article.
Beckinis, indeed!
This old thread is ‘woo-ishly’ about me.
How’s that happen??
If the average consumer throws away 70 lbs of clothing a year and I am way below that average, I wonder who is tossing out more than that amount. Or does this include the clothing designers destroy if they don’t sell them?
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AIUI, nope, that 70lbs is all consumer discards. However, it includes “other textiles” besides clothing: e.g., bedding, backpacks, dishtowels, bathtowels, tote bags, any textile that the consumer considers no longer usable or wanted and throws in the trash.
Yay!! Money!!
@mixdenny aren’t you loaded?
The thing I found telling was the claim that most people have bought an outfit only to wear it once and throw it away.
I can think of exactly one outfit anyone I know buys and wears only once, and they don’t throw it away: a wedding dress. Hell, I don’t know anyone who throws away clothing at all: even if they don’t want it anymore, they try to give it away or drop it off at some sort of clothing drive.
If you do just wear something once, like a prom dress or tux, you rent it.
You can buy handcrafted items from India. Those ladies pick thru dumped clothing and leavings from textile factories.
And make kantha quilts, bags, rugs. And no telling what all. I’ve purchased something like a 1000 chindi rugs and this last Christmas I was given a Kantha quilt. I ordered some for gifts. Maybe 25.
My carbon footprint is now lowered.(eh, don’t even know what that means) My wedding dress was my Mother’s all the way back to a great great grandma. I still have it.
That would also include defective or unsalable merchandise that made it into a store, textiles that were destroyed in a natural or man-made disaster, things that are donated and not suitable to be worn OR baled, etc.
When I was in high school, a strip mall near my home that contained a sewing and craft store caught fire, and that store was one that was a total loss. That would certainly be included in that 70 pounds, were that the amount at the time.
Are kantha quilts the ones made from old saris? I never heard of them until recently.
Yes. And they’re really primitive.
No batting in between the layers. They make a nice summer time quilt .
I felt really guilty about having one. I thought they probably made 4 cents per quilt. So I bought a bunch of them.
A multi-generational wedding dress is amazing. Decades of devoted care.
My cousin’s bride* wore my aunt’s - her now mother-in-law’s - wedding dress. Which I found odd, rather that wear one from he own family. Moreso because my aunt’s wedding ended in divorce.
*They’ve now been married 40 years.
On me the hem of the dress hit halfway between my ankle and knee.
It looked nice, I thought.
I’m lucky my Mother or her antecedents we’re close to the right size.
None of my sisters cared to wear it.
My oldest sister (the one who is always coming here) has been married so many times I doubt she even changed clothes for the last 2.
I can’t remember their names, I know that much.
Maybe The Li’l Wrekker will use the dress one day
I read a note our Becky wrote,
Back in something-and-three
She lost it on the wind,
And it floated here to me.
She said,
"Folks, you might not understand,
But a long, long time ago,
When it came to a wedding dress,
You daren’t let ankles show."
Beck had this crazy plan to
Show her ankles anyway.
She had a pair of real nice shoes
She’d show off on that day.
But there was her family
And tradition, and so she said,
In yet another letter,
And this is how it read:
"If my ankles are both’ring you,
Well, that’s just because of me.
It’s my day, and you’ll all pull through,
And I’ll be who I want to be.
But I’m who I’ve always been,
Why not just wait and see?
And between now and then,
Until I see you again,
I’ll be loving you,
Love, Me."
For you, @Beckdawrek .
Full credit: inspired by Collin Raye’s song, “Love, Me.” You can hear it here:
Yeah it was traditional in the eastern states of India (especially Bengal) to convert old cotton sarees to quilts. When a cotton saree is worn for a few years, it gets soft - really really soft and comfy like old jeans. And then my grandmother would hand sew many such layered sarees into a kantha quilt. The sewing thread itself was used by unravelling a saree - so it was all around soft.
Thank you friend.
It gave me a giggle and a warm feeling.
((Hugs to you))