We can ensure our factories adhere to accreditations to ensure a suitable work environment for our makers, decent pay and set hours. We can also make sure we are using natural fibres that will biodegrade and focusing on Organic options (which means they were grown without the use of terrible chemicals that devastate ecosystems as well as farmers). Current technology can take existing plastics and make them into new polyester fibres, as opposed to depleting natural resources and providing a use for discarded plastic materials. So what can we do? Well our next collection will only use recycled, natural and organic fibres to minimise our impact. Synthetic textiles take between 20 and 200 years to naturally biodegrade! This is because they are essentially plastics and so compound the current plastic problem. Natural textiles biodegrade naturally in a short period of time- like a planet that returns to the earth.
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They are are derived from petroleum and other natural resources and then extruded to create a fibre, that is woven or knitted into cloth. Basically, synthetic fibres are made through chemical processes. Synthetic are made fibres, like polyester, nylon, rayon, spandex, acrylic etc. Natural fibres are from natural sources such as, cotton, linen, hemp, bamboo, silk etc. Fabrics can largely be classed into 2 categories natural or synthetic (though it’s possible to blend the 2 for a hybrid fibre). The fashion industry is number 2 polluter in the world, behind the oil and gas industry. The ultimate wardrobe for a busy women! That’s our design mandate, our driving force.īut can the perfect athleisure garment, really be perfect if it is contributing to a fashion system that does not value the environment or the people that work within it? So, we did some soul-searching and decided that we must play a larger role in the solution. Something you can feel styled in at the shops, and equally comfortable in while exercising in the park. The best of both worlds! Comfort, engineering, no belts, and something you can bend in without feeling restricted.
#MELD DICTIONARY HOW TO#
Meld Apparel started with this idea- how to blend your fav comfy sports apparel, with a more fashion look. Think about how much your favourite coffee is improved with a syrup (obviously based on taste criteria, as opposed to calories)! Or being served a dessert without cream or custard?! (Apologies for all the food analogies.) Melding or developing to create something even more desirable than each part on their own. Bringing together more than one, to create something new. Its first appearance was in the first season, on 3 November 1966.By dictionary definition, ‘Meld’ is the process of blending.
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The Oxford English Dictionary has its first example from 1973, but that’s easily beaten by Star Trek, in which Mr Spock often employs a Vulcan mind meld. Meld as a noun meaning a blend or combination is rather later. It has become a standard part of the language, more in the US than the UK. Early examples suggest it arose in cookery, meaning the blending of flavours. In grammar as well as meaning it’s a blend, since it was almost certainly created by combining melt and weld. The other verb, meaning to merge or combine, is by comparison an upstart - it’s recorded only from the middle 1930s.
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It vanished from the language in the fifteenth century, only to be reintroduced from the modern German language in a different sense. It was an Old English term that derived from Germanic sources. Oddly, the verb had made an earlier appearance in the language, in medieval times, when it meant much the same as the modern German verb - to make known or announce, later also to inform against a man or accuse him. As it appeared first in the US, one may guess that it derives from German immigrant usage. This sense, of laying down or declaring a combination of cards, is from German melden, to announce. This brought the verb meld into much wider circulation than it ever had before, though it had been recorded from the 1880s in connection with other card games, such as pinochle and rummy. I well remember the post-war fashion for canasta, which my older brothers played with great enthusiasm, if inexpertly.
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There are actually two different verbs here. Would you care to comment in your column?Ī The situation’s a bit more complicated than that. Q From Bob Lee: I note with a bit of dismay that meld, which had always meant to show or display, and entered the common vocabulary when the game of canasta became popular (when one laid down a set of cards, one was said to meld), is now assumed by most users to mean mix or merge.