An exploratory study on up-cycling as the sustainable clothing life at home

Abstract

Sustainability has become recognized as an important issue for clothing retailers during the last decade, with increasing demand from consumers for products which are environmentally and socially sustainable (Joergens 2006). Sustainable consumption will require consumers to buy less, use products longer and produce less waste (Tilikidou and Delistavrou 2004). Interest in sustainable clothing production and consumption is growing and the rapid increase in the size of the sustainable clothing market implies that consumers are concerned about sustainability (Shaw et al. 2006). The clothing sector has responded to this type of publicity and to consumer demand, with the introduction of small-scale ethical clothing retailers and the launch of sustainable ranges by larger retailers, mainly based on organic cotton products or Fair Trade production (Goworek et al. 2012). Now the preoccupancy of fast fashion in clothing industry represents the trend of current society which is sensitive to fashion, rather than quality and physical life of product. Producers built up mass production system by outsourcing so as to be competitive by lowering the price, and consumers, with the decreased burden, become intemperate in spending. Repetition of intemperate production and consumption has led to various problems and resource waste, and clothing wastes became a social issue. The issue of clothing wastes requires urgent reconsideration as 3% of wastes discharged from each household is clothing (Fletcher 2008

Economic and environmental sustainability dimensions of a fashion supply chain: A quantitative model

“…Hence, it is not immediate to compare the results obtained in our study with other available outcomes, for validation purpose. Nonetheless, results of our application confirm the findings of Shim et al (2018) by showing that fashion supply chain can suffer from poor environmental performance, because of the long and complex chains. Also, our results appear in line with those of Boström & Micheletti (2016), who highlighted the environmental impact of production of fashion items.…”

“…Sustainability in the fashion industry has recently gained attention but, even so, has not yet been properly deepen (Yang et al, 2017); this is the reason why the choice has fallen on this specific context. Achieving sustainable practices in the fashion and textile industries is difficult in practice, since their supply chain are long and complex (Shim et al, 2018); at the same time, however, it is essential, as the fashion industry is among the world's most polluting industries (Boström & Micheletti, 2016). There is little doubt that considering the pillars of sustainability is critical to company's success (Choi et al, 2018).…”

Towards A Conceptual Framework of Sustainable Practices of Post-consumer Textile Waste at Garment End of Lifecycle: A Systematic Literature Review Approach

“…The quality and rigour of the articles forming the review can be traced to the journals in which they were published. Twenty of the articles analysed were published in Scimago-rated Q1 journals [2,5,51,52,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]; 12 articles were included in Q2-rated journals [23,53,[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79]; with two articles rated Q3 [80] and Q4 [81], and the last journal was not available on Scimago [82].…”

“…After sorting recovered garments, the garments are redirected to garment regeneration [82]. This includes practices of upcycling; altering recovered garment to improve its value and quality either through redesign and/or remanufacturing [67], or downcycling; turning the recovered garment into less valuable end uses [62].…”

Which Consumer Associations Can Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand Image? Evidence from Fast Fashion Brands

“…Recently, in conjunction with the increase in consumer interest in sustainability, a number of studies have been conducted on various sustainability issues. These include case studies and conceptual discussions [22][23][24], studies of consumer perceptions and attitudes [16,[25][26][27], consumer type analyses [28], purchasing behavior [13,16] and company-level research [29]. However, although studies on sustainability are underway, there is a lack of academic research on sustainable fashion and the activities of the fast fashion brands.…”