Home
Forums
New posts
Contact Us
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Search All
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Contact Us
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Really good
Life
The life-changing magic of making do
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1275" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-life-changing-magic-of-making-do/" target="_blank"><strong>The life-changing magic of making do - The Globe and Mail</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Several years ago, while living in London, England, my wife met Prince Charles at an event associated with the Prince’s Foundation, where she worked. She returned with two observations: First, the Prince of Wales used two fingers – index and middle – when he pointed. Second, Charles’s suit had visible signs of mending. A Google search fails to substantiate the double-barrelled gesture, but the Prince’s penchant for patching has been well documented. Last year, the journalist Marion Hume discovered a cardboard box containing more than 30 years of off-cuts and leftover materials from the Prince’s suits, tucked away in a corner at his Savile Row tailor, Anderson & Sheppard. “I have always believed in trying to keep as many of my clothes and shoes going for as long as possible … through patches and repairs,” he <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Froyal-family%2F2018%2F11%2F13%2Fthrifty-prince-charles-keeps-bag-scrap-material-repair-suits%2F&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128975945&sdata=CnfdZeaiRun%2BauTwt7pwjKEFEaLuCq3%2BvVue2o1vWmI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">told </a>Ms. Hume. “In this way, I tend to be in fashion once every 25 years.”</p><p> </p><p>As it happens, double-breasted suits are rather on-trend. But more notable is Charles’s sartorial philosophy, which could not be timelier. The Prince comes from a tradition of admirable frugality – the Queen <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.readersdigest.ca%2Fhome-garden%2Fmoney%2Froyal-family-spending%2F2%2F&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128975945&sdata=H3gw47j5YHloJjft2DlBCIlrYO%2F87GjaLTibDyUDX4Y%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">reuses </a>gift-wrap – but his inclination to repair rather than replace, to wear his clothes until they wear out, is an apt antidote to our increasingly disposable times. Most modern consumers are not nearly so resourceful: The average Canadian <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fthenational%2Fclothes-from-canada-account-for-huge-waste-cbc-marketplace-1.4494444&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128985942&sdata=UhQGY4Dx6%2BK1Q8gJMe0jn9xEGLa6%2FVUF7niYSUKmOnI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">buys </a><a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frco.on.ca%2Ftextileswaste%2F&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128985942&sdata=zjtLVEh5qRIBOqhLi7gqdj7Eq21yNAqCss%2Ffor%2BZVaI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">70 new pieces</a> of clothing each year, about 60 of which ultimately wind up in a landfill. (Thrift stores <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Fottawa%2Fdonated-clothing-where-it-ends-up-1.4662023&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128995932&sdata=3HARCwVm7C7X49tIPUeDh%2F6ICR9xK2h0jzB3JRL6r4U%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">only sell</a> one in four pieces of donated clothing.) According to a British <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Ffemail%2Farticle-3117645%2FWomen-ditch-clothes-ve-worn-just-seven-times-Items-left-shelf-buyer-feels-ve-weight-ve-bought-whim.html&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995129005928&sdata=3voRFMpEwhY9FqG0WDbyl845sZgJfz1w6wpOyJl6i24%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">study</a>, the average article of women’s clothing is worn seven times before it’s discarded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1275, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-life-changing-magic-of-making-do/'][B]The life-changing magic of making do - The Globe and Mail[/B][/URL] Several years ago, while living in London, England, my wife met Prince Charles at an event associated with the Prince’s Foundation, where she worked. She returned with two observations: First, the Prince of Wales used two fingers – index and middle – when he pointed. Second, Charles’s suit had visible signs of mending. A Google search fails to substantiate the double-barrelled gesture, but the Prince’s penchant for patching has been well documented. Last year, the journalist Marion Hume discovered a cardboard box containing more than 30 years of off-cuts and leftover materials from the Prince’s suits, tucked away in a corner at his Savile Row tailor, Anderson & Sheppard. “I have always believed in trying to keep as many of my clothes and shoes going for as long as possible … through patches and repairs,” he [URL='https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Froyal-family%2F2018%2F11%2F13%2Fthrifty-prince-charles-keeps-bag-scrap-material-repair-suits%2F&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128975945&sdata=CnfdZeaiRun%2BauTwt7pwjKEFEaLuCq3%2BvVue2o1vWmI%3D&reserved=0']told [/URL]Ms. Hume. “In this way, I tend to be in fashion once every 25 years.” As it happens, double-breasted suits are rather on-trend. But more notable is Charles’s sartorial philosophy, which could not be timelier. The Prince comes from a tradition of admirable frugality – the Queen [URL='https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.readersdigest.ca%2Fhome-garden%2Fmoney%2Froyal-family-spending%2F2%2F&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128975945&sdata=H3gw47j5YHloJjft2DlBCIlrYO%2F87GjaLTibDyUDX4Y%3D&reserved=0']reuses [/URL]gift-wrap – but his inclination to repair rather than replace, to wear his clothes until they wear out, is an apt antidote to our increasingly disposable times. Most modern consumers are not nearly so resourceful: The average Canadian [URL='https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fthenational%2Fclothes-from-canada-account-for-huge-waste-cbc-marketplace-1.4494444&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128985942&sdata=UhQGY4Dx6%2BK1Q8gJMe0jn9xEGLa6%2FVUF7niYSUKmOnI%3D&reserved=0']buys [/URL][URL='https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frco.on.ca%2Ftextileswaste%2F&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128985942&sdata=zjtLVEh5qRIBOqhLi7gqdj7Eq21yNAqCss%2Ffor%2BZVaI%3D&reserved=0']70 new pieces[/URL] of clothing each year, about 60 of which ultimately wind up in a landfill. (Thrift stores [URL='https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Fottawa%2Fdonated-clothing-where-it-ends-up-1.4662023&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995128995932&sdata=3HARCwVm7C7X49tIPUeDh%2F6ICR9xK2h0jzB3JRL6r4U%3D&reserved=0']only sell[/URL] one in four pieces of donated clothing.) According to a British [URL='https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Ffemail%2Farticle-3117645%2FWomen-ditch-clothes-ve-worn-just-seven-times-Items-left-shelf-buyer-feels-ve-weight-ve-bought-whim.html&data=02%7C01%7CMMedley%40globeandmail.com%7C65ca18d0c43b4fc24a7808d703bfea7a%7C44376110425e46ab942e26c9518bfd03%7C1%7C0%7C636981995129005928&sdata=3voRFMpEwhY9FqG0WDbyl845sZgJfz1w6wpOyJl6i24%3D&reserved=0']study[/URL], the average article of women’s clothing is worn seven times before it’s discarded. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Really good
Life
The life-changing magic of making do
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
Accept
Learn more…
Top
