This past week, my main priority was to come to a halt with the research for a bit so that I could create my final presentation. I am out of town for week 10, so I had to give my presentation a week early. This required me to stop before my contract is officially over so that I could condense my work into a 10 – 15 slide powerpoint. As usual, it was a difficult feat to put all of the learning that I did this past quarter into a 10 minute presentation. But, I was able to successfully complete the presentation by the time the week was over!
Other than that, I did a lot of thinking on my final conclusions regarding business models based around upcycling and how that relates to what I read in Shaping Sustainable Fashion about underpricing encouraging overconsumption. The more I think about it, the more I really do believe that it is important to charge more than fast fashion companies for original designs. I do think that there is a middle ground, but I now understand trying to fight the fast fashion industry with the same methods it used to create the mess we’re in now is not the way to go about initiating a change in mentality when it comes to fashion.
Other than that, I completed my internship with Olympic Yarn & Fiber (post here) and continued to monitor my flax. As far as the fiber farming goes, I am super happy to see that most of the flax is taking off now that the weather has warmed up quite a bit (regular watering also seems to have something to do with it.) Now that the quarter is winding down, I plan to shift my sights to preparing for the flax harvest and processing!