One Dress Protest is me, Kristy Powell, wearing one dress for one year in order to protest the ideas and motivations behind how and why I wear my clothes. Over the year I aim to challenge the ways identity is constructed through clothing, what sustainability means for consumption, how our perception of others is so often based on external presentation, and what “fashion” ultimately means for me going forward.
Join In
You don’t have to wear a single dress for a year to protest what’s wrong with the state of how we consume and dress ourselves today. There are actually quite a few people encountering the issues of 21st century fashion and sustainability in many, many creative ways. Below, you’ll find some links to other communities or individuals engaging ways you can “protest” in a way that is meaningful for you.
And if you choose to undergo any measure of change in your dress or clothing habits, I’d love to hear about it! Email me at kristy@onedressprotest.com.
The Uniform Project – The Uniform Project™ started in 2009 when Sheena Matheiken realized she was drowning in the doldrums of an advertising career. To counter the uninspired demands of the corporate world, she came up with an unusual creative challenge: to wear the same dress for an entire year – but, and this is where the real challenge came in, she’d have to make it look unique every single day and do so without buying anything new. U.P. now offers a creative “pilot series” where people wear one dress for one month to fundraise for worthy causes.
Project 333 – Project 333 began when Courtney Carver realized she wanted to live with less in order to tell the story of who she is without her clothing doing the talking for her. She leads a large community of people who have taken on the challenge of reducing their closets by wearing just 33 items for 3 months at a time.
Six Items or Less – Six Items or Less is a social experiment conceived by two friends (Tamsin and Heidi) who wanted to explore their relationship with their clothes and see what would happen when they took thinking about clothes out of their daily routine. Participants, called “Sixers,” choose six (and only six) articles of clothing to wear for one month.
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