The UK wide Sustainable Fashion Week (SFW) is hitting the runway for its fourth year from Friday 20 September to Sunday 29 September and Frome is part of it!
Frome joins cities and communities across the UK and internationally as Everyone Needs Pockets, the textile reuse network in Frome, hosts Sustainable Fashion Week (SFW) Hub for a second year running.
Over 17 events and activities
A whopping 17 activities and events are programmed to take place in various locations in Frome
from September 20th to 29th. Featuring repair, upcycling and alteration workshops, talks on
regenerative design, the history of repair and growing your own Flax, preloved clothing sales
and swaps, as well as town-wide shop window displays that will inspire you to make our clothing
and textiles healthier for people and the planet.
Inspiring events where you can listen, learn, swap or stitch
With many activities available for free, there is something to cater for all interests. The week
starts with a ‘Flax to Fibre’ Workshop on the 20th, with events running through the week into a
final weekend that includes Stitch It Don’t Ditch It public mending display in the Westway on
Saturday 28 September at 11 am, a Community Clothes Swap run by Frome Wardrobe
Collective starting at 12 noon, followed by a How To Mend Your Clothes session at the Boulder
Rooms and an evening talk with the inspiring Caroline Till.
You can book into sessions at Millie Moon on mending including one led by Skye from Slow
Stitch Club, take part in a Pattern Swap, join Lucy Gundry in Frome Museum’s archives, and
hear from fashion director and sustainability expert Scott Wimsett. Frome’s Charity Shops and
secondhand and vintage clothing stores are taking part in a window display trail highlighting the
destructive impact of fast fashion, and the importance of buying secondhand and repairing our
clothing.
The Power of Repair
This year’s theme is ‘The Power of Repair’. How often does a rip, a stain, a moth hole or a
missing button mean your clothes end up in the bin – heading to landfill and incinerators or even
deserts, waterways and the open sea? Fashion waste is littering our shared land, impacting the
soil, air and water that we depend on.
Today, we regularly wear less than 30% of the clothing in our wardrobes. Some of these
garments will hang unworn due to needing a little mend. We want you to harness the
Repair is a powerful form of resistance in a world of ultra-fast fashion
Everyone Needs Pockets
Everyone Needs Pockets Textile Network is an inclusive community of people and enterprises in
Frome who collaborate and inspire each other, and our wider community, to make a change to
the unsustainable way we consume and dispose of our clothing and textiles.
The network partners with Edventure’s Future Shed, as part of Green & Healthy Frome, a
lottery-funded project which focuses on climate and health-connected action.
Get Involved
Get involved and take action – buy second-hand, celebrate style, repair your clothes and use
SFW to learn about the issues and what we can do to change for the better.
For the full programme and ticket links:
www.sustainablefashionweek.uk/frome
www.everyoneneedspockets.org
www.greenandhealthyfuturefrome
Email: everyoneneedspockets@gmail.com
