Why make your own clothes?
It’s the only way to get true plastic-free outfits free of synthetic threads, fixings, labels and packaging:Plus I can’t afford to buy ready-made sustainable clothes, but I can (sometimes), afford to make clothes from sustainable, organic and fair-trade fabrics
Click each garment to see how sustainable it is. You can see a full list of my sustainable clothes criteria here
Stuff I Made
2019
Grey dress homemade
2018
Home made
- liberty sleeveless made from yellow fabric I bought in India 175
- Shorts blue weave from Japanese cotton 142
- thin cotton shorts home made 136
- Shorts blue weave from Japanese cotton 142
- thin cotton shorts home made 136
- Cardigan knitted from Shetland wool 315
2017
- Billy Bunter shorts 168
- grey silk wool mix trousers 275 Palazzos
- Liberty dress 218
- Heavy silk sleevless over tunic 245
- Woolen 3/4 sleeve long tunic 293 – MuMu Two
2016
- Denim Long Shorts 316g 316
- Linen Pants 414g 414
- Corduroy Skirt 300g 300
- 1 wool socks homemade 73g 73
- The Bombazine Skirt 541g 541
- Wrap Skirt 249g 249
- Tabbard Frock 149g
- Ebay Woolen jacket 180
- Choir Boy grey smock top 132
- Liberty Lawn Shirt red poppies 96g
- Offset Tunic blue & white 157g
- Vogue lawn top cross bodice 110g
- Wrap shirt 108g
- Wrap Shirt Lawn Chiffon 90
- Yorkshire Wool Waistcoat 178g
Chiffon Shirt
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Choir Boy Shirt
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Clothing Homemade A line skirt
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Clothing Homemade Denim 3/4 length
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Clothing Homemade Offset Tunic
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Downton (Yorkshire Wool) Waistcoat
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Ebay Fabric Jacket
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Grey Linen Trousers
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Skirt Bombazine
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Tabbard Tunic Top
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Tana Lawn Tunic
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The Experimental Wrap Around Shirt
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The Fulsome Foolish Skirt
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Wrap Skirt
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2015
- Boho Tunic – cotton & silk home made from scraps. 220
- Loon Pants – cotton homemade, 226 ( bulk weighed devided)
- Tunic – Fair trade organic cotton striped shirt Natural Fibres, Homemade 226 ( bulk weighed devided)
- MuMu of Modesty fair trade organic cotton Natural Fibres, Homemade 226 ( bulk weighed devided)
- Baggy Trousers Natural Fibres, Homemade 226 ( bulk weighed devided)
- Bloomers Natural Fibres, Homemade 24
- headscarf Natural Fibres, Homemade 24
- Team Mongolia scarf /hat. Natural Fibres, Homemade 138
Bloomers – homemade
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Boho Tunic
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Loon Pants
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The MuMu of Modesty
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Trousers homemade
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Tunic Top – Fair-trade, organic-cotton, plastic-free & homemade
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Weighs In At
Why the weighing? Well this item of clothing is counted as part of my fair share fabrics project. This is a self imposed rationing system. I use no more than my global share of fibres and they have to be sustainably sourced. Whats a global share? Share out all the fibres made by all the people on the planet and it works out, (very roughly), 11.74 kg per person of which 3.8 kg is natural fibres. As I don’t like synthetics I try to stick to 3.8 kg of natural fibres.
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You can read my sustainable clothing manifesto here
You can see the rest of my wardrobe here.
And find other clothing related posts here
Plastic Free Sewing Supplies Can be found here
Inspiration
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