Was very interesting to read, please keep up the good work I read you regularly even though you do not have fashion-related stuff all the time.

Does not matter, qualit is what counts, and you have it. Thanks.

Thanks for the comment. Getting rid of your old cloths while assuring their continued use by somebody else is a smart way. As well, there is of course also the chance of buying fewer cloths (refuse), while keeping and wearing them longer, thereby reducing your level of consumption.

Incidentally, yesterday I read a comment by Emma Marcegaglia (chairman of Confindustria, the Italian employers association) where she laments the “protectionist tendencies and raw nationalistic instincts” evident in the dispute over the employment of non-British workers at the Lindsey oil refinery, Lincolnshire. Ms Marcegaglia is also managing director and finance chief of Gruppo Marcegaglia, the European leader in steel transformation.

Britain must not go wobbly on the free market

Her article is another indicator for how Mr Brown’s failure to talk straight and condemn the illegal strikes. This is hurting the UK internationally and may stop some firms from investing in the UK. For instance, Gruppo Marcegaglia might think twice before going through with its investment at Teesside that should create hundreds of jobs for British steel workers.

As well Mr. Brown’s current idea that

‘International companies have got to be subject to a college of supervisors that includes the major countries in which they are operating’

seems a bit unwieldy. Or does this mean that British companies such as HSBC or BP will have to subject themselves to being regulated and discussing risk exposure issues with supervisors from Brasil, Italy, Germany, Russia, U.S., China and Japan. How practical will this be considering recent disagreements (e.g., gas dispute between Ukraine, Russia and EU)?

To save money, do something for the environment and sustainability, we need to re-use cloths we have no use for.

So why not swap your cloths.

For instance, UK’s first ever National Clothes Swapping Week, which will coincide with London Fashion Week starting on 20th February 2009 is about to happen. Fashion fans everywhere will be urged to dig out their unwanted items and list them on Bigwardrobe.com for the busiest and most successful week of clothes swapping in history!

So you don’t have to travel to a fashion capital like Milan, Paris or New York. Neither is it necessary to spend a single penny – to be 100% on-trend.

Happy swapping. Getting somebody to re-use your unwanted clothing is a good practical start for taking better care of our environment.