Textile upcycling
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The practice of transforming used fabric, garments, or offcuts into new items of equal or greater value rather than discarding or downcycling them, a core strategy of sustainable fashion.
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Make Do and Mend
A British government campaign launched in 1943 during wartime rationing that taught households to repair, alter, and repurpose existing clothing rather than buy new garments.
Sweatshop
A manufacturing workplace characterized by long hours, low pay, and unsafe conditions, historically associated with garment production since the Industrial Revolution and a continuing concern in global fashion supply chains.
Utility clothing scheme (CC41)
A British wartime program launched in 1941 that standardized clothing designs to conserve fabric and labor, marking approved garments with a 'CC41' label denoting Controlled Commodity.
Zero-waste pattern cutting
A pattern-design method that arranges garment pieces to use an entire fabric width with no offcuts discarded, a technique with historical roots in traditional garment shapes like the kimono and sari.
Fair trade fashion certification
Third-party certification schemes that verify garment supply chains meet standards for fair wages, safe working conditions, and environmental practices, developed largely from the 1990s onward in response to sweatshop scandals.
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