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Free Sewing has free, opensource, customizable sewing patterns: A great solarpunk alternative to fast fashion. (freesewing.org)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

I guess the main benefit is clothes will potentially fit better, but isn’t the fabric still gonna be likely sourced from a sweatshop country? And isn’t it going to result in a lot of waste fabric as I cut out a template?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago

There are quality fabrics still manufactured but they are not often used in mass production of garments.

Any garment production requires scrap fabric. However a crafts person can repurpose and use those scraps where as a factory will just discard them. Also a huge amount of the waste in fast fashion in over production of products that don't even sell and never get used before going to a landfill.

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