UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Garments imply many issues to many individuals, however are you aware how your wardrobe impacts the surroundings and employees?
Be a part of Penn State University Libraries and the Knowledgeable Client Committee from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Pattee Library’s Dewey Room on the College Park campus for the Verify Your ‘match: Gradual Trend Useful resource Honest to discover the world of gradual sustainable trend.
Quick trend is in all places, making shopping for clothes straightforward and inexpensive. However there are lots of points to the quick trend trade that we must always study as customers to make sure the purchases we make align with our private values. On the honest, college students will be taught concerning the environmental, human and monetary impacts of quick trend and discover gradual sustainable options which will higher align with their beliefs as knowledgeable customers.
On the in-person occasion, the place college students are inspired to put on their greatest thrifted outfits, guests can browse stations that study the affect of the quick trend trade and current concepts for options to quick trend garments. In addition they can strive mending garments with stitching machines and discover books from the College Libraries’ assortment on trend matters. Whereas provides final, college students additionally will obtain a stitching package to fix garments at residence. A giveaway for a e book on quick trend will even be accessible on a first-come, first-served foundation.
For members who can not attend in particular person, a virtual Check Your ‘fit: Exploring Slow Fashion occasion shall be supplied from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, via Zoom, utilizing the password: 489649. Anybody within the Penn State neighborhood is welcome to join this free virtual event here.
The digital, interactive occasion will function a presentation with an outline of the impacts of quick trend on employees, the surroundings, and our wallets, in addition to alternatives to scale back these destructive outcomes by means of gradual trend.
Each occasions are sponsored by the College Libraries Knowledgeable Client Committee, a gaggle of Libraries staff devoted to serving to Penn State college students make empowered choices about their funds, well being and different areas of life by means of entry to schooling and data.
For extra details about the Verify Your ‘match: Gradual Trend Useful resource Honest or digital presentation, together with questions on accessibility choices for both occasion, contact Lauren Reiter, enterprise liaison librarian, at lmr29@psu.edu.
