Since there’s a lotta bull honkey out there about sustainable fashun, I am offering my suggested research as a pre-reading / listening / watching / hubs of info for y’all to get yourself acquainted with my work before you @ me, bro ;)

I originally put this work together for FREE when I was hired on as a Prufissurissa in Siena, Italia to teach two courses on “Fashion Design & Culture” to upper class high school kids. Teachers know, you really get paid for classroom hours, but a lot of the time you are expected to build whole curriculums in your “free” time, based on your expertise & years of hard labor…. if this time of creating our brilliant curriculums was accounted for, educational establishments everywhere would be breaking labor laws because they don’t pay teachers above the minimum wage when all of our hours are accounted for. This is absolute bull shit, and a reason why I am not able to teach because I don’t have enough money to not get paid for my work. However, I realize how valuable it is for me to share my knowledge to help people to empower themselves to dress more sustainably. I will provide here for free and by donation:::: tip me at @Baily-Rose on venmo. I am wearing a rainbow scarf. Don’t spell my name wrong. ——- ::::::::: (not the full syllabus, just the pre-reading ;) TO BE CONTINUOUSLY EDITED AND ADDED TO

Suggested Research discussed that will frame concepts & key issues:

Listen : podcasts 

  1. Black material geographies by Teju Adisa-Farrar : Whetstone 

  2. Weaving Voices with Fibershed: Whetstone 

  3. Dressed: The History of Fashion

  4. Remember Who Made Them

  5. Soil to Soil (Fibershed)

  6. Material is your Business

  7. Fashion Revolution Podcast

  8. Unspun

  9. American Fashion Podcast

  10. Fashion is Your Business

  11. How to Save a Planet::: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/xjh53gn

Read : Articles, Papers, & Presentations : Websites

  1. The cenciaolis: a journey through Prato textile tradition with the craftmen with its leading actors:

https://rifo-lab.com/en/blogs/blog-di-rifo/rigenerazione-fibre

  1. The Real Rag & Bone Men: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man

  1. Teju Adisa-Farrar’s Statement of Positionality : https://www.tejuadisafarrar.com/positionalitystatement

  2. NIST: Your Clothes Can Have an Afterlife : 

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/05/your-clothes-can-have-afterlife

  1. NIST Special Publication 1500-207: Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.1500-207.pdf

  2. CPSC Textile Policy:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZ95z60i4vrvLYt-pwzLnxMamvJjmbNS/view

  1. Fibershed Brands Toolkit:

http://fibershed.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Fibershed-Brands-Toolkit.pdf

  1. Textile White Paper :

http://recycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-Textile-White-Paper-sept-15-2020.pdf

  1. Rifo Lab (studio visit) : Sorting Textiles / The Problem with Circular Textiles : 

https://rifo-lab.com/blogs/blog-di-rifo/perche-lobbligo-della-raccolta-differenziata-nei-comuni-non-e-sufficiente

  1. Prato’s Textile Recycling History:

https://www.fawco.org/global-issues/environment/environment-articles/4576-prato-italy-its-recycling-history

  1. Fibershed’s White Paper: The Hidden Story of Plastics in Our Clothes:

https://mailchi.mp/fibershed.com/plastics-white-paper


Watch: Free

  1. “Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Intersectionality?” :

https://youtu.be/ViDtnfQ9FHc

  1. Documentary on Florentine tailors : I Colori di Antonio

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/i-colori-di-antonio/id927708075 

  1. Prato: A model for sustainable fashion: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fAukD8_30Y

  1. Recycling fashion: The town turning waste into clothes- BBC News:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i0QMnz4ExY

  1. Cenciaiolis 1x01: (Click through to watch the entire mini series of 6)

https://youtu.be/wfnM9IPN5e4

  1. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yYQqKxz8Tg

  2. Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt: https://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/title

  3. Black Fiber Systems: Teju Adisa-Farrar, Sha'Mira Covington, and Amber Tamm 2021:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp26cJgTzgo

  1. 2021 Wool & Fine Fiber Symposium: Weaving Voices: People, Land & Water :

https://fibershed.org/2021-wool-fine-fiber-symposium-weaving-voices-people-land-and-water/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter_feature&utm_content=landing_page

  1. SB 1187 Kamlager Textile Recycling Senate EQ hearing 2022: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_lDnWRIT8s

  1. 10,000 Pounds of Cotton: Bringing the farmer back to the table:

https://youtu.be/a3mt7iINVmg

  1. NAFTA : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement

  2. LA Textile Recovery Pilot hosted by California Product Stewardship Council 2022: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwnTBQYQaHs

  1. All the Slow Factory lectures: 

https://slowfactory.earth/open-edu/all-classes

ESPECIALLY: 

https://slowfactory.earth/courses/fashion-and-prison-labor/

https://slowfactory.earth/courses/greenwashing-wokewashing-why-you-avoid-both/

https://slowfactory.earth/courses/regenerative-design/

https://slowfactory.earth/courses/fashion-and-waste/ (OR Foundation)

Resources  + hubs 

  1. http://garmentworkeract.org/

  2. https://usas.org///about/#about-whatisusas

  3. https://www.fashionrevolution.org/further-reading/

  4. https://theor.org/

  5. https://www.calpsc.org/textilestewardship

  6. https://www.repaireconomywa.org/fix-repair/

  7. https://www.fashionrevolution.org/europe/italy/

  8. https://fibershed.org/

Read: Books  (prufissurissa rose has to borrow)

  1. Consumed. The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber

  2. Fibershed by Rebecca Burgess

  3. Unraveled by Maxine Bedat

  4. Why Women Cry - Or - Wenches With Wrenches by Elizabeth Hawes

  5. Fashion is Spinach by Elizabeth Hawes

  6. TO DYE FOR by Alden Wicker