Landfill crisis in Singapore in World 277 leads to the creation of repair salons to encourage the circular economy. Clothes must now be designed to be easily disassembled to the constituent parts of garment, to allow easy, speedy (think seconds) redesign. Stupid synthetic clothes that cannot be transformed are stored in the form of textile sculptures.
Instead of limiting oneself to the outfit you put on at the start of the day, elements can be added or removed or reshaped as circumstances dictate. Seams are designed to unpick quickly while still being sturdy when needed. Unsewing machines are found on every street corner. The outcome is people need only one or two sets of clothing at a time, varying colours and using until the fibres themselves wear out. At this point, fibres are taken to repair salons for re-weaving.
This World was contributed by a Fashion Fictions contributor (located in the UK), building on fictions contributed by Souporni Nath 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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