In 2019 in World 200, Singapore decided to implement a zero waste strategy as landfills are quickly being filled up. Thus, they have decided to cease the purchase and production of garments as textile waste output has increased at an exponential rate.
The government will then provide a wardrobe that would be made mandatory for citizens to wear consisting of five pieces: a t-shirt, shirt, trousers, long skirt and jacket. All genders will be given the same wardrobe and the wardrobe will be refreshed every three years. In a world where everyone is forced to wear the same thing, how do you form your own identity through dress?
What if …
everyone were forced to wear the same uniform given by the government?
Issue targeted:
fashion identity and fashion waste in landfills
Inspiration:
landfills are filling up in Singapore due to textile waste
This World was contributed by Joselin Marvina Wongso, Ong Hui Yin Cheryl, Amrit Kaur and Muhammad Sadiq bin Mohamed Shah (located in Singapore, Indonesia and India) using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the author and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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