COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS

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GET INVOLVED 

We have plenty of opportunities at the Wardrobe Collective for everyone to get involved and to get to know their clothing. We have workshops ranging from natural dyeing to repairs. Opportunities to volunteer with us to complete your community service. Or get involved in collaborative projects such as The Red Dress or to feed the sheep and watch them grow their fleece.

Most of our workers volunteer at Skill Exchange and provide the community with creative and educational workshops. These workshops are perfect for anyone of any ability, even if you’re new to sewing or have been sewing for years. They cover the basics, enable you to make your own clothes or you can learn to repair and up-cycle what you already own. In collaboration with Skill Exchange, we offer them clothing and material that don’t pass quality control here. These items of clothing become unrecognisable once they leave these workshops. It allows people to experiment and express the individuality and creativity of those repurposing it. In exchange, they send some completely transformed items of clothing back to us, so that we can offer it back into the community, through our ‘hand made’ category. 

 

In the Wardrobe, we have plenty of unique pieces that have been made by the community for the community. Which has successfully allowed us to transition from consumers to contributors. Through Collaborative Projects, it has allowed individuals to truly understand the extent of work and skills that is required to make clothing so beautiful. It has been a way of bringing so many people together to tell their stories and express their stories through fashion. The Red Dress for example has been a symbol of collective and collaborative change that was needed for our community.

Volunteer and do your community service with us! We are Hertfordshire Collective approved and can help you work towards completing your weekly hours. We always need someone on hand at our repair stations or just going round Wardrobe giving it a tidy. 

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Selfie Patch

“I had a hole on my trousers from where In tripped up and fell over. I went to a repairs workshop and I thought it would be hilarious to patch it up with my face on it. I printed my face on plain white cotton from an old sheet, backed it with scraps and then framed it with an eyelet stitch. Hopefully I don’t fall on my face!” Talia

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