[090] MEND IT, WEAR IT, LOVE IT – WITH ZOE EDWARDS

A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale

You'll be relived to hear we have a guest! So you don’t have to listen to me rambling on endlessly. And it’s a cracker of a guest!
I’ve been stalking Zoe on line for years, after first coming across her annual Me Made May challenge online, and I was SO excited to find out that she’s written an actual book! All about mending and loving our clothes, a subject very close to my heart as a reformed mender who never even thought she would be able to sew on a button!
We chat about...

• Making your own clothes
• Why making your own clothes might not necessarily be the most sustainable option
• The problems with fast fashion, including Zoe's own experiences of working within the fast fashion industry
• Zoe's brilliant book - Mend It, Wear It, Love It - available now!!
• The importance of caring for the clothes we already own
• What equipment you need to get started mending (you don't need a sewing machine!)
• How to get started
• Whether there's any kind of stigma around wearing mended clothes
• And lots more...!
  

Screenshot of Zoe during our Zoom - wearing clothes she's made herself!

Useful links

• Zoe's blog and social media
  - So... Zo, what do you know? blog
  - Me Made May
  - Zoe on Instagram
• Zoe's book: Mend it, Wear it, Love it
• TRAID
• Wardrobe Architect
• Rana Plaza
• Fashion Revolution
• [079] Repair what you wear
• Repair what you wear website
  
• The Knackered Mums Eco Club

Do you mend?
Are you tempted to have a go?
Do let me know in the comments!

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"Easily the most family friendly way to do your bit"
The Sunday Times

"Absolutely love this book - should be mandatory reading"
Online review

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