Posted by Glasgow School of Art
RE
RE is a service that looks to reinvigorate and remove the stigma surrounding second-hand clothing, this is in response to waste associated with fast fashion. To achieve this RE offers five key services within its stores.Re made, re-enforces garments that are designed to fall apart giving them then a much need health check-up. This ranges from enforcing the seams of your favourite top or re-dying the garment so it looks like new. We also will supply bandages and patches for those wore out cuts and scrapes on you garment allowing them to live a longer life. Re loop, Allows you to switch up your style without sending your clothes to landfill and harming the environment, while also allowing someone else to love the garment all over again. Each garment is date stamped to show when it arrived into the re-loop and how many people have enjoyed the garment. The stamp also shows what era the garment was made in, this would show if the garment is an original or replica design.Re gain, Workshops that teach you the key skills that are needed to re fashion re-enforce and re-dye your own garments. This will allow you to bring the garment back to life back within your own home or you could always book into the in-store workspace.Re credit, Trade in your old garments that are hiding away in the back of your wardrobe for some new re credits. These garments then go through our health check-up at re made and refashion if needed. They are then rented out to new owners so they can enjoy them. You can use re credits to help with reducing the rental or buying price. Refashion , is were RE showcases its original clothing range with a collaboration of designers, that use waste material to refashion and design new desirable garments that are designed to last the test of time and be re-looped throughout there life cycle.
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