Charity Shop World - with Tansy Hoskins

I thought I knew a bit about sustainable fashion but this chat, and the book behind it all, Charity Shop World by Tansy Hoskins, blew me away.
There’s been quite a bit in the press in recent weeks and months about the impact of Vinted on both overall consumption levels of fast fashion, and on charity shops, but it turns out, that’s just scratching the surface. Listen to hear about the link between charity shops and austerity, the fashion industry and imperialism, how many YEARS of human labour it takes to make one years worth of clothes, how we’re all being expertly manipulated by social media algorithms, and how, as with most (all?) things, it all comes down to industries who have a single goal, of making billionaires even richer.

USEFUL LINKS:

• Tansy Hoskins
  - Website
  - Instagram
  - Facebook
  - Linked In
• Tansy’s books:
  - Stitched Up
  - Footwork
  - The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
  - Charity Shop World
• To Die For by Lucy Siegle
• Our clothes ending up in the Atacama Desert
• Your brain on fast fashion with Lucy Siegle (podcast episode of Your Brain on Climate)
• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
• Extraction Fashion – War on Want
• Labour Behind the Label
• War on Want
• Fashion Revolution
• The True Cost Movie
• Not Buying It magazine (Substack)

SUSTAINABLE(ISH) STUFF:

• Sustainable(ish) Carbon Literacy courses
• Carbon Literacy Refresher course
• Sustainable(ish) Clubhouse – waiting list for November
  

Let me know your thoughts – leave a comment wherever you get your podcasts I’d love to see them, or drop me an email on jen@sustainableish.co.uk.
Thank you so much for listening.