About making sustainable choices

Slow Clothing is about making choices with what we wear, so that we live lightly and sustainably through our everyday actions. Making choices focused on for health and wellbeing rather than status and looks. Dressing in our own style for comfort and ease, not because we think we should look a certain way.

The Australian Curriculum includes sustainability as a cross-curriculum priority that aims to see students participating critically and acting creatively in determining more sustainable ways of living.

It was therefore wonderful to launch Slow Clothing in Western Australia in the fabulous school setting of Chisholm Catholic College, Bedford, with home economics teachers Niari Purdy and Nikki Singleton, Chisholm students and other teachers who had travelled from other parts of  WA.

We had fun sharing conversations about sustainable choices and actions, creative upcycling ideas and techniques that extend the life of existing clothing and textiles. My own way to do that, is to recreate denim jeans into a pinafore. There are countless other ways, including simply buying good quality and mending when required.