Green Threads

13/08/2025

ACTION LOOKS GOOD ON YOU

Over the last 4 weeks of our Green Threads X The 2 Minute Foundation collab, we’ve explored the harm of fast fashion, swapped mindsets, taken action, and shared ideas. Now it’s time to turn all that into lasting habits that we take with us.

Its normal to feel overwhelmed by the scale of the environmental problem. The truth is, none of us can do everything, but all of us can do something. We hope you’ve felt supported, inspired, and energised - because together, we are equipped to tackle the problem. And the ripple effect of our actions will go far beyond festival season.

That’s where the 2 Minute approach comes in - breaking down big problems into bite-sized actions you can do in the time it takes to send a text or make a cuppa. 2 Minute reminds us that every small step counts so we’ve put together our top pledges.

💚 2 Minute Solution:
– Check the label and choose natural fibres over synthetics.
– Sew on a loose button and give a garment more wear.
– Pick up what others left behind - from litter to abandoned jackets.
– List an outfit on Vinted eBay.co.uk or Depop instead of letting it gather dust.
– Unfollow a fast fashion brand and make your feed align with your values.

Tag us in your 2-minute solution and we’ll share our favourites.

07/08/2025

Decode Your Clothes

Every piece of clothing you buy carries a story stitched inside it - the label.

In the UK, it is a legal requirement to have a label on clothing. Specifically, the Textile Products (Labelling and Fibre Composition) Regulations 2012 require that clothing and textile products carry a label indicating the fibre content.

Most of us ignore it, some of it is hard to understand but those tiny lines of text can tell you everything you need to know about quality, sustainability, and durability.

Here’s how to translate your label:
1. Fabric Type
👘 Cotton - breathable & soft. Organic cotton = lower chemical use + safer for farmers. Recycled is even better.
👘 Wool - naturally regulates heat in hot and cold weather, odour-resistant, and biodegradable.
👘 Linen - super breathable, naturally antibacterial, and low-impact to grow.
👘 H**p - durable, needs little water to grow, and softens beautifully over time.

❌AVOID❌ Fabrics like Polyester, Acrylic, Nylon - are all made from fossil fuels. They trap heat, release microplastics in the wash, and don’t biodegrade.

2. Care Instructions
🧺 Cold wash saves energy & keeps fibres strong.
🧺 Air dry reduces wear, saves your clothes from heat damage, and lowers your footprint.

3. Country of Origin & Certifications
🔖 Labels may show if it’s made locally or under ethical standards.
🔖 Certifications like GOTS (organic textiles) or Fair Trade indicate better labour and environmental practices.

06/08/2025

Festival Fashion, On Loan
 
In a world where we rent out other people’s homes, borrow their dogs and share their workspaces, it seems only natural that the access economy would eventually reach our wardrobes too. 
 
Fashion rental service is a relatively young concept in the UK, with the earliest example, Hurr, launching in 2018. In recent years the industry has seen incredible growth, with predictions that the UK rental market will be worth £2.9 billion by 2029.
 
Renting your festival look is a game changer:
🤠Access to gorgeous outfits for a fraction of the cost of buying new
🤠Lower carbon footprint than buying new
🤠No contribution to fast fashion’s throwaway culture
 
💚 2 Minute Solution:
Before your next festival, check out rental platforms like or One borrowed outfit can save resources, money, and keep fashion out of landfill.
 
Have you rented a festival outfit? Thinking about it? Let us know in the comments!
 
This post is part of our Festival (Fast) Fashion collab with our friends

04/08/2025

How I Can Help You

Here’s some of what you’ll find here - and how I can help you cut through the noise on fast fashion 👇

What I do:
✔️ Share practical tips, resources, and inspiration to help you shift towards slow fashion and circular living
✔️ I offer workshops, talks, and consultancy - helping individuals, businesses, and community groups rethink consumption and build positive change
✔️ I create straight-talking, action-focused content that connects fashion, climate, and social justice in a way that feels empowering, and (hopefully) not overwhelming

How I can help you:
🌵 Follow along for easy wins you can take in your everyday life
🌵 Get in touch if you want to host a workshop or market, collabs, need help making your event more sustainable, or want guidance for your business or side hustle
🌵 Use Green Threads as your go-to space for real talk on fast fashion, creative ideas, facts and resources, and practical steps for positive change

This space is here to help you feel informed, inspired, and part of a growing movement for fairer fashion.

04/08/2025

🧘Monday Mantra: Pre-loved = most loved

Here’s a wild thought… we don’t actually need more clothes.

Fast fashion churns out 100 billion items each year. Of the 100 billion garments produced, 92 million tonnes end up in landfills. Yep – you read that right.

Meanwhile, perfectly good clothes are waiting in charity shops, boot sales, vintage stores, and online resale apps. At the time of writing, just alone is showing over 79,963 items when searching “festival outfit”.

Why pre-loved wins:
🪩 Unique looks you won’t see on other people
🪩 Lower environmental impact - no new resources needed
🪩 Supports circular fashion instead of wasteful overproduction

💚 2 Minute Solution:
Next time you prep for a festival, hit a charity shop, thrift store, swap with a mate, or browse & Every pre-loved buy keeps fashion in play and out of landfill.

Would you rock pre-loved at your next festival?👇

This post is part of our Festival (Fast) Fashion collab with our friends The 2 Minute Foundation

02/08/2025

30/07/2025

🎪⛺Sustainable Festival Starter Pack

As part of our Festival (Fast) Fashion collaboration with The 2 Minute Foundation we’re spotlighting the choices we can all make to reduce the impact of what we wear this festival season. Enter the Sustainable Festival Fashion Starter Kit - a no-fuss guide packed with small actions that add up to BIG change.

Why? Because breaking up with fast fashion has never been more important for ocean health. A 2017 report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimated that 35% of all microplastics found in the ocean come from the washing of synthetic textiles like polyester.

Festival fashion should be about joy, fun, and self-expression - not microplastics and pollution. These are your 2 minute solutions - simple and rooted in care for people and planet. They’re part of a bigger mindset shift, and part of a conversation that fashion is long overdue to be part of - in communities and on festival fields.

💚 What tip from the starter kit will you try first?

28/07/2025

🧘🏼‍♀️Monday Mantra: Rewear. Rave. Repeat

In a world that tells us to never be seen in the same outfit twice, choosing to rewear your clothes is a rebellious act. But guess what? It’s also one of the simplest and most impactful things you can do for the planet.

We’ve been conditioned by fast fashion and influencer culture to think ‘new’ equals ‘better’. With next-day delivery and algorithm-driven trends, we’re taught that wearing the same thing twice is a failure. Today, fast fashion items are worn on average just seven times before being chucked. That number tells the story of a broken system built on waste, on speed, on disconnection.

You’re feeling the urge to buy new for your upcoming festival - could you rewear something and make it feel new again with a restyle? According to WRAP keeping your clothes in use just 9 extra months reduces their environmental footprint by 20–30%. That means rewashing, restyling, or reinventing your look isn’t just budget-friendly - it’s planet-friendly too.

In How to Break Up With Fast Fashion, writer explores the mindset shift that comes with rewearing. She argues that limiting what we wear forces creativity - like a “Ready Steady Cook bag of clothes” - and that styling the same items again and again is not just practical, but deeply satisfying.

Let’s normalise outfit repeating. Tell us about your ride or die festival item ⬇️

This post is part of our Festival (Fast) Fashion collab with 💚