In World 271, families have inherited fabrics and clothing and they become valued as part of the family stories. Clothes narrate to the family member what they experienced travelling around the world during the production process and this is an integral part of the individual family’s lore. Clothing and fabrics are inherited as part of people’s estate, when they die, and purchasing new fabrics is rare. Repair salons aim to encourage the reduction of one’s expenditure on new garments and fabrics.
This World was contributed by Michelle Leonforte (located in the UK), building on fictions contributed by Salome Egger and Iris Do Tho Uyen, Cheryl Chueh Xin Yi, Woo Miko, Lee Jimin and Tasya Aurellia, 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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