Literally, the word Akimbo means “whatever next.” So sustainability stands for “whichever next in the XXI century.” It is that stream of consciousness running into the next after-effects of our aftermarket actions-from eating to wearing. Ironically, fashion is the bigger polluter of this Earth whereas Akimbo claims to be style but not at the cost of being Akimbo for Mother Nature, and so should be ethically considered-at least the conscience will never view this as just any seasonal wear.
Putting on any piece of clothing represents making a statement for the world one would want to live in tomorrow. Fast fashion is a world of ugliness and cheapness, disposal of anything, and utter destruction; slow fashion, on the other hand, is quite another world-click-kinder, conscious, and upright. Akimbo Hoodie lives and breathes both worlds in every seam sewn into it.
Lifecycle of A Responsible Hoodie
Akimbo is turning into a life-support machine, slowly mutating the road-from-field-to-closet establishment, and then another turn into the cycle of realization.
Altered Fabrics:
First up, the fabric of organic cotton and recycled polyester. Growing organic cotton means farmers do not use toxic pesticides, thereby maintaining the system of agriculture that neither adversely affects the local communities of such growers nor biodiversity. Recycled polyester is produced from wastes generated by post-consumer plastic bottles that would have either gone to a landfill or sat floating in the ocean; and, basically, it uses water and energy much less than a new polyester.
Dyeing-related processes go a little away from conventional dyeing methods have been allegedly accused of pollution of water bodies. There may thus be an argument that the unskilled dyes should be used in a prototype installation working with an almost closed-loop system-retaining 95 percent of the water and chemicals used for dyeing-as a big-environmental-cost compensator.
Dyeing charts a somewhat different course: Conventional dyeing methods have been accused of polluting water bodies. One might therefore argue that unskilled dyes must be used in a prototype setup operating with an almost-closed-loop system-retaining 95 percent of the water and chemicals used during the dyeing process-as substantial environmental cost compensation.
Made to Last:
This means very sustainable clothing, designing- something that is already existing in someone’s life of clothing. Something timeless like the Akimbo Hoodie might be capable of moving past quick-changing whims of fashion: the small things about how well it fits, all the details and thoughts put into stitching, and, of course, respect for the fabric that was chosen by skillful hands. Truly one of those rather few out-and-out vintage designs. It actually wears well rather than washing away with just washing and wearing. That might be the one thing we would never want to do, forcing ourselves into that somewhat technical path of obsolescence.
Ethical Production
Sustainability is more related to something from Nature. In the AA Chain of Sustainability, it is ensured that every individual is treated with dignity and respect and is guaranteed reasonable wages.
Not for Promotion-This Being Our Own Conscious Understanding of What Goes into Our Hoodies Instrumentally, Right from the Start Right Up to the Finish Line, Those Who Were in Turning-out Come Under: All our factory partners are certified for safe-working conditions and fair-labour practices. That shall be your pride.
Small-Scale Limited Runs Or Whatever It May Be Callable-Since it opposes production, it stands against the enormous urge to squander-so clear in this obnoxiously-fast approach to fashion production-where majority of garment making goes on most days hardly for a day or two for sale, most of the time late for return, while the remainder ends landfills or trash incinerators-the cheapest disposal, in my eyes-I would call that illegal waste thinking.
A Muirian movement would poetically attest to nature observations: “When we attempt to pick out something by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” Perhaps a little more clarity-the hoodie traces the watershed, erosion control, workers’ lives, and the global dastardly situation with waste. Hence, the Akimbo Hoodie class seeks to use these opposite forces and turned them to a good thing: a class for those standing arms akimbo on the frontlines ushering in an age of consciousness toward the garnered wardrobe. Certainly, hoodies are not your common hooded sweatshirts; they speak intentions.
