Give your wardrobe a second life with tips from our Modern Mending webinar

Languishing in the back of our wardrobes and at the bottom of drawers are outfits that don’t fit anymore or are no longer in style. Before you add these to the rubbish heap, why not consider repurposing your clothes.

Join Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald, Australia’s leading clothes-mending practitioner, for our Modern Mending webinar on Wednesday 3 March 2021, from 7pm to 8pm, and learn how you can bring new life to your old clothes and fabrics.

Inspired by the global slow fashion movement, Erin takes clothes that would otherwise be thrown away and reinvents them.

Erin has helped many people to turn their unwanted garments into wearable pieces using simple mending techniques (stitching, darning, patching, needle felting and machine darning) that combine creativity and sustainability.

She teaches workshops across Australia and her mending has been displayed in art exhibitions in Melbourne and Adelaide.

In this webinar, Erin will show examples of her work and inspire you to fall back in love with your worn-out clothes.

While the idea of recycling, reusing and repurposing fashion isn’t something new, it’s a continuously growing trend as more and more people choose to live a more ethically sustainable lifestyle in a shift away from ‘fast fashion’.

Fast fashion - inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers - leads to a mountain of clothing being thrown away each year and has many environmental impacts.

According to the United Nations, the fashion industry is responsible for 8 to 10 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. In Australia alone, more than 500,000 tons of textiles and leather is discarded every year, and most of it will not biodegrade in landfill.

So, the next time you tear your favourite pair of jeans or find a hole in your jumper, think twice before throwing it away. With our Modern Mending webinar, you’ll gain the skills and confidence needed to help turn the tide against fast fashion and be kinder to the planet.

Bookings for the Modern Mending webinar can be

For more information, please contact Council’s waste education provider, EnviroCom, on 9703 5288.