Chloe has been sewing
& creating for over
10 years.
Renewed Rags was slowly brought to life with the help of friends, family, and community.
With the intention of spreading awareness for the global textile waste issue. Our mission is to have fun reworking, repairing, and restyling old clothes to help support a circular fashion economy in the Grand Traverse / Northern Michigan area.
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“Sustainable fashion is not a
trend
but the future”
— Rahul Mishra
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But why repair, rather than repurchase?
Conserve Natural Resources
choosing to repair a tear in your t-shirt instead of replacing it with a new one will save roughly 700 gallons of water.
Keep a Special Garment Longer
many clothing items can contain special memories that you don’t want to part with. well, you don’t have to if you just mend it!
Own a One-Of-A-Kind Piece
no one else will have that shirt with the same tear in it, patched up with the same color thread, in the same pattern! it will always be unique.
Boycott Fast Fashion
why choose to spend your money to support fast fashion brands, when you can choose to support local companies who will make your clothes last forever?
Reduce Waste
buying a new garment, means throwing out the old. as individuals, we can help bring down the roughly 90 million tons of textile waste per year.
