Name: 【TEDx】What are you wearing? Take it off: Edda Hamar at TEDxKurilpa
Uploaded: 2014-07-28T04:05:11.000Z
Duration: 6 min 44 s
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I was going out to meet up  with some friends.

I thought, my friends,  they know all my other dresses.

And naturally, I went and picked up  something new.

I’d like to ask you all to consider  what you're wearing today.

and if you remember  what was on the tag.

that there were seven sneaky facts  about the dress that I just bought.

This dress is made  of cotton and polyester.

To grow enough cotton  to create this dress,

toxins are run off into  Chinese ecosystems, killing wildlife.

The design process  of this dress created waste.

And usually it’s traded as rubbish and sent straight to land field.

This dress was made in China,  in a sweatshop.

It was most likely made by someone, who works 16 hours a day

Last year, there was a factory collapse  in Bangladesh,

The distribution of this dress, the carbon footprint, I should say,

it will then source material from India, will then flight to China

to have hand-made  or more finer details added to it.

And then, it's shipped around the world for retail.

Australians purchase one billion items of clothing per year.

The company I bought this dress from doesn't have a recycling scheme.

is made up of an unwanted clothing and textiles.

a sustainable fashion show  here in Brisbane,

I discovered sustainable fashion four years ago

when I saw our local designers  were doing great things

We curate sustainable daywear,  evening wear, lingerie, and swimwear

garments dyed with turmeric and red wine,

where it came from,  or where it will end up,

It is treated with  a low water-dying process.

and the waste water is recycled to preserve our ecosystems.

These three sections are actually off-cuts from another collection.

are then used  in the rest of the collection.

in a place that has  healthy working conditions

They're off-cuts  from a designer in Melbourne

Actually, I borrowed  this dress from a friend.

So, I will be returning it to her later today.

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