Oscar de Ruijter, David Zenger & Joël Burlet
Hello everybody
Our team did some research on the internet this week.
In a first step we searched for "clothes to rent" and found out that some special clothes like high quality wedding dresses and suits are already for rent in some online shops.
Until now we haven't found any online shops that "share clothes". We understand that it is difficult to share clothes because of the following;
- The bodysize must be the same or else the clothes will get ugly with the time
- An uncarful person may cause damage to your clothes
- You need the clothes while it's rented to another person
We did some further resarch on how much clothes is getting wasted every year.
As an example of this we found out that every year 20 percent of the newly produced clothes are destroyed unworn by companies like Zalando. We thougt about an idea to reduce this waste by sharing those clothes. You can offer them to homeless people in the winter but also to regular people to wear it for a short amount of time and then give/share it with another person. This concept is the base of our app that we want to create. By bringing those unworn clothes in the market homeless poeple don't need to buy clothes. People who just want to wear another style can also profit off it by wearing it for a certain amount of time and then give/share it with another person.
Then we went on to the Task Miss Suter gave us. The question was to determine how much energy can be saved when 10 poeple would do it/wouldn't do it.
Best regards
Oscar, David und Joel
Hello everybody :)
As you may know our project is sharing / renting clothes to save ressources.
Our goal for today is to find out if there are already shops who share / rent clothes and how expensive this is.
In addition to this we want to start a little experience for example sharing our clothes in school (sport lesson). This could probably be a problem because of the situation right know (corona) so we don't know now if this can work or not.
If you have other ideas don't hestitate to write a comment or contact us.
Bye for now
Joël Burlet, David Zenger, Oscar de Ruijter
We have thougt very intensively and long about all the ressources we can save by sharing clothes. We came up with These materials:
- cotton
- polyester
- Nylon
- leather
- flax
- wool
- Denim
- ramie
- silk
- fur
- down filled parkas
- spandex
While thinking about all the different materials, we came up with a slightly new idea. We can share the clothes but it would be possible to rent clothes. There are already some start-ups in the USA for example the company "rent to runway".
There are other materials you would not think about in the first second.
- zipper
- shoe laces
- Velcro fastener
Best regarts
David, Joel and Oscar