Couture Essentials may very well be
the best idea I have heard all year. As a tree-hugger and lover of non-human
organisms, who do not have a voice of their own, making the earth a little less
cluttered and polluted is important to me.
I am also someone who loves fashion, so I found this doubly interesting.
I remember having to do a project
in the seventh grade about recycling, pollution, landfills and the percentages
of recyclable materials that ended up in landfills, or worse, in oceans and
other bodies of water for aquatic animals to get stuck in or die from trying to
consume the trash. The following year I had another project about how such
pollution was causing irreversible damage to our aquifers, where clean, pure
water is extracted from beneath the earth. Though I always felt that this
information was important to know, I always felt so helpless and never seemed
to find any realistic explanations for combating land and water pollution.
Years later, I think that Couture Essentials may be the answer that I had been
longing for all this time.
The part of this program that I
liked the most was that it allows people to bring in their own “junk” to have
it revitalized and made into something new. I have seen websites similar to
this, but they were incredibly expensive, due to the use of new, raw materials
and they did not provide the donors with ways to alter or actually make their
own creations, as Couture Essentials does. I can definitely see myself taking
in some plastic and turning it into one of those clear rainbow jackets that I’m
too broke to pay the shipping prices for, or even bringing in old books that I
no longer want and creating a book shelf or some other eccentric décor for my
room, like they have in Burke’s Books.
Not only do the products made from
Couture Essentials allow users to turn trash into fashion, but they also
provide an alternative to products made from child and slave labour, which was
discussed in Stop R’ Shop. One of the solutions for the latter project was to
wear and buy clothes that are already in circulation from thrift shops, rather
than supporting such a heinous culture by buying new products from the stores
themselves.
As a side note I found the actual
presentation to be very convincing and creative, what with the plastic bag
skirt. Great project, great product.
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