slowclothes: noviembre 2010

domingo, noviembre 14

Mango-Mascarpone Monument

I spent 3 hours fighting against all sorts of ingredients to get this cake done for Kerstin. She turned 45 so I decided that being 45 would be for me the half of a lifetime, so she actually deserves it.

Yes, girls... I'm not doing this for every B-Day. But the one or other "old cookie" will get one of this for her celebration.

lunes, noviembre 8

For Nina

My very good Belgian Friend living in Brussels just got a baby! Nina...

That was certainliy the perfect oportunity to get some Babygoodies done again. For the first, a cudly alien who has no name jet

and

a Ms. Zimmermans classic in baby alpaca. A little bit difficult to knit but just lovely and warm.

Who's making the clothes we are wearing?

While in the past centurys mostly women manufactured in homework all the clothing needs for their families, now they have been luckyly freed from this chores. But the machine that sews the clothes for itself without the human hands and abilities has not been invented jet. So now the women in rich countrys are not making the clothes anymore but it would be wrong to beleave that this is a progress for all. The work just was delegated to millions of poor women and men working in sweat shops everywhere in the third world. I understand that we cannot come back to making everything ourselves but we can learn to apreciate this hard work that is beeing done for us through learning how it is done and or getting somehow in contact with the people working for us. Knowing the faces behind our clothes. When we do this, we will probably have a hard time just buying a nice fashionable skirt for little money only to throw it away at the end of the season. That would be a good day for all. And the fashion industry alltogether will have to rethink their ever faster changeing tendencys.