Category Archives: clothing

Adaptive repair

September 5, 2006 – 9:27 pm

We’ve been a bit slow with posts in the last few weeks because we’ve been moving this blog and a few others we are involved in from blogger to their own websites, a small sign of their growing success. But we’re back to work now.
Let’s start with Bower, a repair and recycling centre in Addison [...]

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Market solution

July 30, 2006 – 1:06 am

In Australia, the lackey country, politicians and other business rent-a-reptiles constantly parrot the dumbest US propaganda, eg that we can’t do anything about CO2 emissions because it would hurt the economy, as if we have a choice, as if we won’t be fried (along with our economy) by global warming as long as we ignore [...]

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Ya gotta draw the line somewhere

July 5, 2006 – 1:42 pm

No doubt you all know George Orwell’s injunction against sandal wearing socialists in The Road To Wigan Pier. Well, they reckon socialism’s dead but sandal wearing isn’t, it’s still happening out there….

It oughta be banned, but you never know, since we are now living at the arse end of human civilisation, tyre sandal making is [...]

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mmmm, interesting, unusual…

June 29, 2006 – 1:21 am

I love op shops but more as a type of museum, somehow I just don’t want to revisit most of those styles, they were bad enough first time around.

But designer Rita DiLorenzo of black label SF uses recycled clothes as her raw material, recombining and reshaping them, blacking out their old labels. She mixes new, [...]

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