Slow fashion occupying the mental void from lack of current fandom

[cimorene]

It's been a slow conversion, but I think I want to only buy new clothing that's made by microbusinesses and small brands in the future. I can't really say 'in Finland', because the Finnish jeans brand that's converted me (Very Nice Jeans) manufactures their jeans in Estonia. That's still nearly local, though. It's even like half mutually comprehensible with Finnish.

Or to make it myself, maybe, some of it. I've been trying to find a secondhand linen short-sleeved blouse, mostly failing, and going into that frustration spiral where you think it can't be that hard to just make yourself. (There are some beautiful ones on Etsy from little shops in Lithuania and Ukraine, but none exactly what I had in mind.) (Knitting counts too, and I do intend to knit some cotton short sleeved shirts eventually, but woven linen is by far the best when it's hot.)

Also once again trying to find over the knee wool stockings, but I still can't find any Finnish shops besides Säihkysääri (sort of twinkletoes, lit. scintillating calves, which is a fantastic name for a hosiery store), and they are out of everything but navy and black. The only other option I can find is that I could order wool blend stockings directly from Trasparenze in Italy, apparently. For now I can make do with the one pair and some cotton ones with legwarmers, though.

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[princessofgeeks]

You certainly have the skills to do a lot yourself.

I myself have been relying on hand me downs from family for 20 years, except for blue jeans and underwear. That has worked pretty well although it wasn't even a moral decision.

[cimorene]

Yeah, I don't really think this would work for underwear, not unless you were one of those people who only wore vintage dresses. You could make pre-modern underwear yourself, or if you had nothing but time you could knit some approximations, but sewing the modern style would just take so much extra work to learn that it doesn't seem worth it. There are a couple of Finnish brands that make some very expensively fortunately, but idk what I'll do when I need more tbh!