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For our Explorations Project, we were able to explore our own passion and improve upon a particular skill set that addresses creativity, self direction, and social and civic responsibility. For my own project, I chose to work on fashion design and production, more specifically studying the environmental impact of the fashion industry and clothing sustainability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My original project was going to be based solely on fashion design, using fabrics and old clothes I had around my house because I wasn\u2019t able to go out and purchase materials due to the pandemic, and I didn’t want to place any non-essential online orders. This led me to the idea that I could use this project to advocate for recycling and reusing old clothes to reduce waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through this project, I learned how to produce fashion sketches, design my own clothing, measure, cut, and sew fabric to create a unique article of clothing. I gathered an old skirt and pants that didn’t fit me anymore and used the fabric from these items to create my piece. Because I was working with such limited fabric, I had to be really precise in the process. In the end, I created a shirt and recycled the leftover fabric scraps, all while continuously educating myself of the immense negative environmental impact the fashion industry has, and what we can do to reduce it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I started off the project by creating some basic fashion sketches. I was surprised at how much precision goes into these because the body proportions have to be exact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next, I actually created a sketch of the design of the shirt I was going to be making. The arrow respectively signals which piece the fabric to make that part of the shirt is coming from (although I was originally using jeans as well, I decided not to in order to keep my fabric consumption as low as possible).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After some slight technical difficulties, I was able to actually start assembling the shirt. The sewing machine was somewhat tricky to use, but I figured it out fairly quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final product<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Presentation Video<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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