Designer Natalie Allen talks about sustainability and new technologies in fashion and textiles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcZK26R3xdM&feature=related … [Read more...]
Ethical Clothing Australia
Ethical Clothing Australia provides textile, clothing and footwear businesses with practical resources to help ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations in Australia and offers a method to communicate this to consumers and buyers. It is a voluntary system that helps meet compliance requirements. See: http://www.ethicalclothingaustralia.org.au/ … [Read more...]
Clothing sector reports and links
Clothing manufacture in Australia includes ready to wear casual, formal, designer, sleepwear and underwear. Specialist items, such as uniforms, hospital gowns and masks, safety and disposable wear, are also manufactured in Australia. By volume, businesses in the sector are most often small and rely on home-based ‘outworkers’. However, a number of large clothing manufacturers hold significant market share by value. Because labour is a substantial cost in clothing, manufacture off-shore … [Read more...]
