A Year Without Clothes Shopping

Last week, The Times reported that Britons binned £12.5 billion worth of clothes during 2017, with 300,000 tonnes of textiles ending up in landfill. This environmental impact was a major motivation for the challenge I set myself last year – don’t buy any clothes for the entirety of 2017.I had a second motivation for taking on this challenge: a guilty conscience over having bought things that I neither needed or particularly liked, which then became part of an unnecessarily larg