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Mango adapts as climate change makes fashion less seasonal

By Corina Pons

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish retailer Mango is honing in on adaptable clothing to help customers adjust to wild swings in temperature as climate change makes fashion less seasonal, Chief Executive Toni Ruiz told Reuters.

The clothing industry used to work according to clearly delineated seasons, but global warming means it needs to adapt to periods that can include a mix of hot and cold temperatures and produce pieces that reflect those transitions, Ruiz said.

“Before, when you came back from summer, all the shops were full of winter clothes,” Ruiz said in an interview. “More and more the customer is going to look for what they need at that moment.”

With Spain and other countries in Europe experiencing higher temperatures during some periods of the year as well as more rain in some places, clothing trends are shifting too.

The trend among women for light trench coats is an example of seasonally-transitional clothing, Ruiz said. Mango is also offering clothes for men using “performance” fabrics that are more breathable and that better handle sweat on hot days.

In recent years, family-owned Mango has shifted to sourcing its trend-dependent items from manufacturers in Europe and its functional wardrobe pieces from manufacturers in Asia, Ruiz said.

“We have the ability to work in two parallel worlds, depending on the needs and the nature of the product,” he said. “I believe that is a necessary virtue at the moment in this disruptive world.”

At the end of 2023, Mango sourced from about 3,000 factories in China, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Ruiz said about 40% of Mango’s suppliers were located in Europe but that more than 80% of volumes were still manufactured in Asia.

The flexible supply chain has helped Mango navigate recent disruptions to shipments through the

CDC’s COVID isolation guidance may change soon : Shots

Tested positive for COVID and wondering whether you should isolate? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon change its guidelines.

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Tested positive for COVID and wondering whether you should isolate? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon change its guidelines.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon drop its isolation guidance for people with COVID-19. The planned change was reported in The Washington Post on Tuesday, attributed to several unnamed CDC officials.

Currently, people who test positive are advised to stay home for at least five days to reduce the chances of spreading the coronavirus to others. The unnamed officials told the Post that the agency will advise people to rely on symptoms instead. If a person doesn’t have a fever and the person’s symptoms are mild or resolving, they could still go to school or work. These changes could come as early as April.

The CDC hasn’t yet confirmed the report. In an email, an agency spokesperson wrote that the CDC has “no updates to COVID guidelines to announce at this time. We will continue to make decisions based on the best evidence and science to keep communities healthy and safe.”

Some states — California and Oregon — have already implemented similar guidelines.

If this change takes place, it shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that COVID-19 is less contagious, says Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health.

“The science of COVID has not changed,” Nuzzo says. If you test positive for COVID-19, you’re likely contagious for a few days at least and risk spreading the coronavirus to others.

The policy change under consideration may be a reflection of the fact that the

Women’s apparel doesn’t have enough pockets. This expert says that has to change

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Women only want one thing: deep pockets, and lots of them. 

At least, that’s according to design expert Hannah Carlson, who says women have rallied for pocket equity for centuries. 

This notorious lack of pockets in women’s clothing prompted her to write Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Carlson, who also teaches dress history and material culture at the Rhode Island School of Design, digs deep into the history of the pocket, and the cultural significance it has in women’s lives. 

“They’ve agitated with much earnestness, you know — ‘give us pockets,'” she said. “And it’s just astonishing that it’s been this long. And I think that reveals quite a lot.”

In this book jacket image, a woman's upper body and chin is seen. She is wearing a blazer with a large red pocket, on which is printed the book's title Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close.
Carlson is the author of Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close. (Hachette Book Group)

Carlson points out that in menswear, pockets are expected, while in womenswear they’re not. 

Suits handily delivered on the expectation of pockets. The suit “evolved early as a uniform” for men, and its production — pockets and all — became industrialized sooner as fewer tailors began making them by hand. 

But women’s clothing continued to be handmade until around 1920, says Carlson. And eventually, women began carrying tie-on pockets underneath their skirts. 

“As women’s modern dress evolves, there’s this expectation that women will carry handbags,” she said. 

A pink handbag is seen hanging from a person's forearm.
Pocket inequity stems in part from an expectation that women will carry their belongings externally in handbags, says Carlson. (CBC)

Hayley Gibson, founder of clothing line Birds of North America in Toronto, says women are often burdened by that expectation of carrying their belongings externally. 

“It’s become such a tradition for women to carry an external bag of some sort,” she said. 

“I can’t help but think that it’s

Analysis: Shein vows to cut clothing waste, but can the ultra-fast fashion brand really change its spots?

  • Ultra-fast fashion brand Shein second only to Inditex in revenue, churning out thousands of new designs a day
  • Shein scored 7 out of 100 on Fashion Revolution’s latest Transparency Index
  • Campaigners see Shein as prime contributor to millions of waste textiles sent to Global South
  • In response it has set up a fund to help countries manage clothing waste, and is trialling peer-to-peer exchanges to enable customers to sell used clothes
  • Brand says waste from unsold clothes is in single digits, and has partnered with with Queen of Raw to rescue excess fabrics

August 24 – Sales of $10 tops and $15 dresses have sent the value of Shein, the Chinese-owned brand selling ultra-fast fashion to the West, soaring since it launched in 2017 in the U.S.

Churning out thousands of new designs a day, Shein has a direct selling model that targets its millions of social media followers.

The privately owned company, which is in talks with investment banks about a potential U.S. initial public offering, according to Reuters, is valued at more than $60 billion.

In February, the Financial Times reported that Shein, headquartered in Singapore, made $22.7 billion in revenues last year, on a par with H&M, though below industry leader Inditex, which owns Zara. And Shein has no intention of slowing down, targeting revenues to more than double to $58.5 billion in 2025.

Although another Chinese company with a similar model, Temu, is snapping at Shein’s heels, Shein is squarely in the sites of environmental campaigners, who see it as a prime contributor to the mountains of discarded waste textiles exported to countries in the Global South.

According to U.S./Ghanaian not-for-profit Or Foundation, one destination for waste textiles is Kantamanto second-hand market in Accra, which receives 15 million new garments a week. It says 40% end

Addressing climate change with a public health-first | News

As the School’s new chair of the Department of Environmental Health, Kari Nadeau trains her expertise on finding solutions to climate-related health issues.

May 4, 2023–Working with farmworkers in California’s Central Valley for two decades, environmental health researcher Kari Nadeau noticed a disturbing trend. Pollen season kept coming earlier and earlier, and more and more people were suffering from acute allergies and asthma. “The season in California used to start in March, and now it starts in January,” she says. She started asking herself, “Why is this happening two months earlier? Why are plants emitting more pollen? Why are more people suffering?”

The answers were the same: climate change. Carbon dioxide is a stimulant for grasses and ragweed, causing them to emit more pollen even as the warming climate causes them to produce pollen earlier. At the same time, studies showed climate change was making wildfires more severe. “Central Valley was suffering from wildfire smoke about 100 days a year, while 20 years ago it was more like 20 days a year,” says Nadeau, at the time director of Stanford University’s Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research and Naddisy Foundation Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics. Air pollutants caused by the changing climate, she and colleagues found, were not only creating a public health crisis for farmworkers in the Central Valley but also for people in the Bay Area.

“People’s health is inextricably linked to the planet’s health,” Nadeau says. “Researchers have shown that heat stress, air pollution, extreme weather events, displacement, all increase not only acute but also chronic health outcomes. I wanted to expand my thinking towards solution-facing research with policy-related outcomes.”

She is doing just that as the new John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies and chair of the Department of Environmental Health

A Paradigm Change For Electronic Style Small business Styles

Cofounder at zblocks and at Mergeflo. Globally regarded company builder, considered chief and entrepreneur.

As the manner industry continues to evolve, the emergence of Web3 and its integration with Web 2. systems is generating a paradigm shift for digital fashion small business styles. In accordance to a report from Allied Analytics, the global current market for electronic style is envisioned to increase from $498.7 million in 2021 to $4.8 billion by 2031 at a CAGR of 26.4%. Blockchain and Website3 comprised 33% of this market place dimensions and are expected to direct through 2031. Electronic style is catalyzed by various systems like 3-D printing, artificial intelligence and augmented and virtual actuality, as properly as blockchains.

Small business Styles

The convergence of these technologies and demographic shifts have laid the basis for various new organization products and prospects in just a large and increasing market place. Allow us analyze a couple.

Digital Apparel

The most talked about part of the electronic fashion price chain entails the creation of digital clothes and sales to clients. These clothes are worn in virtual environments, such as on the web online games, social media or augmented fact applications. Buyers can produce their own avatars or use virtual products to check out on clothes and invest in digital outfits from online marketplaces. They have been an integral section of virtual situations, gaming appearances and crowdsourced patterns nowadays.

Digital Fashion Rental

Folks in the actual physical earth usually lease outfits like tuxedos, and the NFT rental requirements have made possibilities for renting digital garments. Shoppers can rent and use these for a minimal time, and sensible agreement automation returns them to the owner after use.

Electronic Styling And Hyper-Personalization

Artificial intelligence has designed hyper-personalization in the design and style of digital outfits that goes past

Physicians urge caution as more Americans change to social media for wellness advice

(WXYZ) — We have all been there just before. We do not sense rather suitable and convert to the web for a minimal advice.

A the latest examine by CharityRX observed that 65% of Us citizens look for out wellness assistance from Google. Other people switch to YouTube or social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram for advice.

Amber Battishill is a registered yoga and mindfulness trainer with a strong social media existence in which she shares details on parenting, recipes and health. She shares her info at Mommy Long gone Healthy.

“Today I am sharing a mindfulness and respiratory training and I like to use this a single with my little ones,” she explained in a current video.

A rising range of People are turning to social media influencers like Amber for overall health data, most regularly for assistance with anxiousness, excess weight loss and melancholy.

A recent survey of 2,000 adults by CharityRx says 1 in 5 Americans consult TikTok for health information before their health practitioner. 33% transform to YouTube and 37% go to influencers.

“I get it all the time. And particularly due to the fact COVID,” Dr. Asha Shajahan, a relatives doctor at Corewell Grosse Pointe, explained.

She claims on the net health details can be useful but you have to look at the source. Even though 55% of People in america say they search for an influencer with health care certification, 26% say they search for relatability. Shajahan says qualifications are critical.

if they never have a wellness history, “a teaching qualifications or a nourishment qualifications or whichever the info is that you happen to be wanting for, I would genuinely take it with a grain of salt.”

She also mentioned to shy away from students who might be well-that means but only have

Canadians dump 500M kilograms of textiles a year. Ontario researchers hope to change that

A new study from researchers at the University of Waterloo and Seneca College hopes to divert tonnes of wasted clothing from landfills back onto people’s bodies.

The University of Waterloo said that Canadians toss away close to 500 million kilograms of fabric items on a yearly basis including such things as clothing, shoes and toys, but researchers hope a grading system will put an end to that.

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“Fashion consumption is at an unparalleled high,” stated professor Olaf Weber, who co-authored the study Textile waste in Ontario, Canada: Opportunities for reuse and recycling.

“Consumers buy, use and dispose of new garments, which end up in the landfill, and less than one per cent of the materials are recycled. This new method is an important step to curbing our waste.”

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The researchers looked at a new method that would grade the clothing from A to F to decide if the garments could be resold, recycled or tossed.

They say that by looking at the clothing this way, more than half of the textiles could be reused while another quarter could be recycled.

The school noted that a pair of ripped and stained jeans might be given a D grade which could see them repaired before they are donated and resold.

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The researchers did admit that getting the garments repaired in Canada might raise prices above market value in Canada but that is not always the case.

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