ABSTRACT
Clothing that is used intensively offers an alternative model of resource efficiency. Here materials spent in production save materials over the long-term life of the piece, supplanting, perhaps, the need for more. Their testimony is both a deeply held appreciation of what people have and knowledge of what that a object empowers us to do. This chapter shows admiration for material goods and simultaneously seeks to connect them with a bigger context of action. Some garments are worn almost daily. They become both a backdrop to, and practical facilitator of, our lives and reflect true resourcefulness. Their features speak of an ethic of an extended, iterative use. The chapteroutlines opportunities for fashion provision and expression separate to the priorities of economic growth. It initiates a long-overdue strategic conversation in the fashion about working within natural limits. The chapter explores the practices of garment use.
