HeyJaredThe Mindful Designer's Almanac
A collection of monthly entries that share diverse research and stories about how we grow, make, wear, and dispose of clothing.
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No One Cares What You Wear (opens the original)
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I’m in the midst of a closet clean-out and revamp. I live primarily in Baja California, Mexico, where dust, dirt, sun, sand, and ocean ruin a lot of clothing. I also have an almost one-year-old, who does his part in the clothes-ruining. And pregnancy and postpartum change what fits and what you want to wear (duh!). A lot of the carefully curated closet that worked for the past few years has either seen better days or doesn’t make sense.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://s
A CSA For Clothing (opens the original)
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I’ve spent the last few months helping my friends at Christy Dawn revamp their Land Steward Club. The gist of the project is a CSA for clothing. The membership fee covers the cost of regeneratively farming about 4,000 square feet of land in Tamil Nadu, India. Throughout the growing season, members get regular updates from the farm. After the cotton harvest in February, members will watch the cotton transform from raw material to finished dress. A year from now, the members get their fee + $40 ba
Nature Tells Us What to Wear (opens the original)
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This month marks the third year of Mindful Designer’s Almanac! Thank you to everyone who has been reading along, and you can find the entire archive here.One of my goals for this project is to connect our clothing back to nature, and I’ve learned that where the fiber in our clothing is native to dictates where it is best to wear it. Looking at the soils they originate in, we can better understand why we wear certain fibers for certain occasions. For example, we wear alpaca sweaters in the fall,
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