The Local Wisdom ‘craft’ of use explores alternative garment-related activities that influence the fashion system on a range of different levels. It documents this craft through image and object interviews that uncover the use patterns of individual garments, the satisfaction levels of individual users, informal service design, new user-industry power relations and evidence for changing social and cultural moirés. Together such activities build an alternative set of practices and language for sustainability in fashion not shaped or controlled by business or industry.

·       Material: practices which promote careful repair and maintenance of the material product that intensify garment use and bring more efficient use of resources

·       Emotional: practices that build emotional connections and rich garment experiences which fosters long life and satisfying garment use

·       Organisational: practices which lead to a change in the distribution and use of garments over time, across contexts or between individuals and groups; leading to more efficient and intense use of resources

·       Political: practices that express values and ethics that act to reinforce or defy those of a designer, producer or fashion system

·       Socio-cultural: practices that influence socio-cultural norms towards alternative more satisfying and resourceful behaviour patterns