blog 4 peer review
The reason I choose to comment on Ioana’s blog is she shown a deep understanding of what sustainability, social responsibility, and diversity is and practices that in her daily life. instead of saying what we should do to change, she talks the talk and walks the walk which had greatly touched me.
Ioana mentioned that after worked in the industry she started to think about what life is about: give and receive. She gave away her old/ good clothes to people who needed or recoiling factory .that moves touched me a lot, first, giving is caring, one old piece may mean nothing to you but may mean a lot to a girl who couldn’t afford new cloth but also wants to be stylish. Sharing and giving is an essential lesson for everyone to learn for lifelong time, we have to care for each other to have a better future.
Secondly, donating old clothing to recycling factories is the practice of sustainable fashion, as we all have listened to the lecture of sustainable fashion, the environmental impacts and waste of fast fashion are enormous. Donating to a recycling factory is the easiest way for everyone to help build a sustainable fashion world.although we all know the negative impacts of fast fashion, but due to its cheap price to get a kind-stylish cloth, it’s still a big temptation to buy fast fashion. we need to work on that.
I have the tradition of donating cloth every six months and I usually giving cloth I wear one or two times to ensure whoever gets this cloth is still a good condition. i realized all these donating clothes usually came from fast fashion brands, and that made me reflect on why would I still buy fast fashion and never wear them, this is a waste already. From that day on I start to saving money on designer brand&vintage cloth and didn’t buy fast fashion anymore. Buy less but better quality clothing is a good way to start for everyone.
when my roommate saw I donating all these clothes, she got confused at the beginning but after I explained what giving could do and the negative impact of fast fashion, she said she would buy less fast fashion since on.
Changes must happen, and that could easily start if everyone has the mind to change, whatever the change is big or small, as long as everyone starts doing it, we’ll have a better future awaiting. just like Ioana mentioned in the blog ‘maybe I could help change this life for the better’
All in all, I think Ioana has a deep understanding of sustainability/social responsibility and make into practices, that’s the thing touched me most and the reasons why we do better live unit: use everything we got to build a better future for the fashion industry and world.
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