January 8, 2024, at 7:49 AM, updated
In its January strategy, Bermuda Is Love will emphasize the importance of owning high-quality clothes.
In its Share&Wear campaign this quarter, a neighborhood team will concentrate on issues related to fast fashion and the right to clothes.
Everyone on the beach “deserves access to high-quality, lasting clothing,” according to Bermuda Is Love.
The knowledge and advocacy group’s co-founder Aaron Crichlow stated that” clothing is a fundamental human need, related to food and housing.”
It is essential for our integrity, life, and protection.
In our culture, which frequently defines wealth and status by one’s clothes, a lack of appropriate attire is thus one of the most obvious signs of poverty and inequality.
People who are homeless or who do n’t have appropriate clothing for a job interview are affected by lack of clothing. It has an impact on people who are struggling to make ends meet and on families who ca n’t afford to buy their kids the right school uniforms.
Lack of proper attire has an impact on person’s ability to thrive and do at their highest level, in addition to how well one can work in life.
In its January strategy, Bermuda Is Love will emphasize the importance of owning high-quality clothes.
He emphasized that numerous international agreements and Article 25 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights both acknowledge the right to suitable clothing.
” Bermuda Is Love believes that everyone has the right to access the clothes they need in order to live with dignity and respect, without harming the environment or taking advantage of cloth workers,” Mr. Crichlow continued.
The January strategy will also discuss the negative effects of rapid fashion on the environment and people, including the quick, large production of clothing that frequently follows trends.
The third-largest manufacturing sector, according to Mr. Crichlow,” contributes more to weather change than foreign aircraft and shipping combined.”
Additionally, nine out of ten fast-fashion companies do not pay their employees a life pay.
” We can contribute to making clothing more equitable, accessible, and lasting by addressing the issues related to customers, producers and our world.”
The# Share&Wear campaign’s main objectives, he continued, are to help everyone have immediate access to high-quality, sustainable clothing, promote a culture of sharing and wearing one another, lessen the stigma associated with fast fashion, and push for the implementation of the right to apparel rules in Bermuda to ensure that no one is required to be charitable in order to access suitable, sustainable clothing.
The full realization of the right to clothes in Bermuda necessitates teaching us to limit the amount of clothes we purchase, transfer, contribute, share, and wear our clothing, as well as to be honest fashion consumers.
It is about each of us who does have access to suitable garments, who stops taking clothes for granted, and who considers how we interact with our clothes.
” Our decisions as users can contribute to making the fashion industry more equitable and sustainable.”
This month’s community events may include a clothing drive, swaps, and giveaways in addition to an waste and film showing workshop.
Schedule for the Share&, Wear plan events
Revelations of a Shopaholic is being screened on January 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. at BUEI’s Push Auditorium.
On January 14, from 2 to 4 p.m., Michelle Fray Design Studios, 6 Burnaby Street, will host a workshop for waste and transform.
The Daily Hour discussion was broadcast live on thedailyhour.com from 8 a.m. on January 17.
Clothing switch from 2 to 4 p.m. on January 21 at St. Mary’s Church in Warwick
On January 27, from 10 am to 2 pm, Elliot Primary School, 12 Hermitage Road, Devonshire, will offer free clothes.
There is no registration requirement and admission to all occasions is complimentary.