Authors: Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen, Marie Ulväng, Pernilla Rasmussen, Ingrid Haugsrud This study explores how ideas of variety were created and practised among women and men of different social strata in Norway… ‘Creating’ variety without waste: Pre-industrial dress practices as inspiration for updating the sustainability discourse
New paper in CHANGE
The paper looks at the acquisition and use of clothes in the period of 1780–1850 to understand how variety was achieved and to discuss whether historical research can inform today’s debate on clothing and the environment. Three researchers from Norway and Sweden with in-depth knowledge of clothing during that period look at their material through questions based on current clothing and sustainability discourse, provided by the last two authors. The paper explores how ideas of variety were created and practised before the big changes in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Clothes must not only suit the user and the occasion but also be clean for us to be well dressed. The meaning of cleanliness and the methods to achieve this goal has changed throughout history, but it has been central in our clothing practices. In this chapter, we will show how the understanding of dirty and clean clothes and the work of keeping them clean has changed in the last 200 years.
Mending matters: cultures and contexts of clothing repair
The Amsterdam Economic Board launches a learning journey for clothing companies to reduce their production volumes.
Irene Maldini, at the time (2017/2018) affiliated to the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences as a PhD candidate. Background in industrial design, design for sustainability, design history and theory. Aim of the study: scientific knowledge… Irene Maldini – Comparative study of personalized and ready-made wardrobes in the Netherlands
Webinar June 29th, 2023, 14:00-17:00 CET, via MS Teams, members only.
We attended the PLATE-conference in Helsinki with 7 papers, you can read more here. The PLATE conference has over the years brought together very important profiles and institutions that all work with the concept of… Reflections from PLATE
Vilde Haugrønning, PhD Candidate, Consumption Research Norway, Oslo Metropolitan University My story of using wardrobe studies is based on the study I conduct as part of my PhD project, which is based in the CHANGE… Wardrobe inventories combined with inflow and outflow of garments in 15 Norwegian households
During the Fashion & Sustainability (lusafona.pt) conference in Cascais, Portugal, Irene Maldini gave the key note speech entitled Overcoming growtharchy: why we need limits to (clothing) production volumes, concluded three days of exhibitions, parallel sessions, project presentations and keynote speeches in the first edition of this biannual event.