I saw a link on The Budget Fashionista's blog about a woman, named Alex Martin, who wore the same brown dress every day for a whole year! (Can you say, "Groundhog Day"? God, I love that movie.) She wore the dress partly as an attempt to cut down on consumerism and partly as a performance piece. She blogged about it and took photographs of the project as it unfolded. (Interestingly, she is from Seattle.) Now, as a girl who likes to shop and buy lovely new clothing and accessories very frequently (sometimes weekly), I am fairly confident that I could never take on a challenge like this. Could you?
Alex's latest project is the Recycling Project. She says, "I am wearing only things I have made myself (clothes, jewelry, shoes, underwear, bags, everything) and my source materials are things that were already in my possession." I know for sure that I couldn't do that, because I am crap at sewing...
Something that I could try would be to wear only clothing and accessories that I've purchased at the Goodwill. Maybe. For almost a year. Ok, damnit, I don't even know if I could do that for a whole year!
Good thing there are other people out there willing to forge ahead with these sort of projects, so that I can just read about them...
2 comments:
I could maybe do it for three months. [It's almost like school uniforms.] How nice it must be to not have those mornings where you try on five different outfits and STILL hate what you wore to work! [My friend, TJ, calls this "O.R.", or, "Outfit Regret".]
It would be nice not to have to think about what you're going to wear! I often think of that when I see people in scrubs or other work uniforms.
Ha! "O.R." - I like that. :-) And often experience it myself!
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