Extending clothing lifetimes means wearing clothes for longer and prolonging their useful life by clothing care, repairs, alterations, re-use and sharing. Extending the active lifetimes of clothes while jointly reducing the global clothing production and consumption, are now considered the most effective ways of cutting the environmental impact of the fashion industry.(1-4) For example, the life-cycle assessment (LCA) of five garments during the recent MISTRA Future Fashion research project (2011-2019) showed that using clothes three times longer can reduce their carbon footprint by 65% and their water use by 66%.(1,2)
EXTENDING CLOTHING LIFETIMES
