Dutch textile consumption requires 5 trillion liters of water<\/a> annually. A majority of the CO2 emissions during the process, occur during production, before the product hasn’t reach the consumer, and this is the problem that Holy Swap! wanna solve.<\/span><\/p>\n According to founder <\/span>Danny Sch\u00fcttler, the sustainable fashion industry is neither accessible, affordable or attractive at this point. He <\/span>wants to keep people off the shopping streets and bring them and their products together in trendy places and stimulate local reuse.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cOur mission is to get people to stop craving more and new stuff, and already celebrate the things you have by giving them new life. It\u2019s important that the venue we work with shares our values. We also always ask the venue if they can add something playful to the event, for example games or music\u201d, says Sch\u00fc<\/span>ttler.<\/p>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2024\/02\/IMG_0341-scaled-e1708626809289.jpg” panorama=”off” align=”center” lightbox=”on” captionsrc=”custom” caption=”People in line to hand in their clothes and earn tokens. The higher the quality, the more tokens you get. ” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\nAs much as this event is about the clothes, it really does seem to be a place for people to come together and enjoy their afternoon. At a wooden table in the big hall, a happy group of three is drinking bloody marys, laughing and trying on their new finds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThat looks so good on you!\u201d, says Laurel Rohloff to Jan Westerveel, who\u2019s posing in a summery shirt with yellow flowers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWhen asked if they usually visit clothing swaps, both Westerveel and Ara Salsabila point at their friend Laurel Rohloff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI came because of her\u2026and the drinks\u201d, says Salsabila with a smile on her face.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nRohloff is an enthusiastic clothing swapper, who also organizes her own local clothing swaps in her neighborhood twice a year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI try to not buy anything new anymore, and thrifting has become too overpriced\u201d, says Rohloff, while she asks her friends if the top she\u2019s trying on is \u201ctoo 2014\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt is clear which audience rules this event; young (mostly female) adults who are interested in a sustainable lifestyle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2024\/02\/salsabila-scaled-e1708627661711.jpeg” panorama=”off” credit=”Nathalie Koskinen” align=”center” lightbox=”on” captionsrc=”custom” caption=”Ara Salsabila and all of her new potential additions to her wardrobe. ” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n\nFun, easy and cheap<\/b><\/h3>\n
But, what really differs clothing swaps from thrifting or buying second hand online?<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t see that buying second hand or sustainable brands is the long-term solution. By swapping, it creates a closed circular economy where we prevent new production and waste in both the supply-side and demand-side. I believe this is the long-term solution.\u201d says Schuttler.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHow do you keep people interested in clothing swaps beyond it being a trend?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cIt really depends on who\u2019s doing the swaps and how they do it. We have to make sustainable living simpler, fun and more affordable for it to reach the masses.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alternative ways of consuming fashion in sustainable ways are growing. It could be seen as a counteraction to the capitalist consumerism that fast fashion symbolizes today. In the Netherlands clothing swaps have become more common and can now be seen as in in cities all around the country.\u00a0 On a rainy and stormy Sunday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3279,"featured_media":11245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41,35,293],"class_list":["post-11216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acls","tag-fashion","tag-sustainability","tag-utrecht","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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