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While there are different ways to dress more sustainably (think: swapping with friends, wearing natural fibers, supporting slow fashion brands, and secondhand shopping. The most sustainable wardrobe will always be the one that you already own. 

Taking good care of, repairing, and upcycling the clothes that you have is an important cornerstone of sustainability. By using what you already own, it prevents depleting the Earth of more of its’ resources by having to buy new.

But I get it — you might be tired of the pieces that you own. Luckily, there are ways to breathe new life into old items, such as embroidering new details onto them, altering them into something different, tie dying them, or naturally dying them a pretty new shade.

To walk us through natural dyeing, we teamed up with our friends and fellow sustainability gurus, Madeleine Wallace and Cara Marie Piazza, to show us how it’s done!

Madeleine is a climate advocate, microplastic expert, and sustainable model, and Cara is a Natural Dyer and artisan in New York City who creates one of a kind textiles only using natural dyestuffs, such as botanicals, plant matter, minerals, non-toxic metals, and food waste.

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