The Secret Life of Second-Hand Clothes

What happens to your old clothes? Do you drop them off at the charity shop or turn them into the textile recycling bin at the store? They leave your wardrobe and your thoughts – but what happens next and where do they end up? This episode of Haptic & Hue’s Tales of Textiles wraps up old clothes, flea markets, the invention of a special form of jazz, the horror of today’s textile excess, and glimmers of hope for the future.

This edition of Haptic and Hue is about the past, the present, and what could be the future of second-hand clothes and textile recycling. Once we lived in an age when yarns and fabrics were hard-won and precious, today we live in an era of textile excess where cloth production uses far too much of the world’s precious resources for clothes that we wear a few times and then throw away. But it doesn’t have to be like this. Come on a journey with Haptic and Hue to find out the secrets of second-hand clothes.

You can find a full script of this podcast, pictures, links, show notes and more at www.hapticandhue.com/listen.