Thursday, Oct 10th, 4-6 PM (tabling set-up begins 3PM)
CLOTHING MENDING BAR
by the Fashion Studies Dept
Fashion studies students will be on hand to help you mend, repair, or alter your clothes to give them new life and reduce textile waste in the world.
We can help with a variety of fixes including patching or mending holes, rips, and tears. Adding decorative stitching, appliques, and patches. Hemming pants, taking in garments that are too big, shortening garments that are too long and much more.
If you are interested in learning to mend your garments yourself, students will help to demonstrate simple hand sewing techniques you can do at home and will send you home with the basic supplies you need.
Please only bring CLEAN garments to the Mending Bar.
In order to ensure that we can help you with your mend, please complete this google form to let us know what you have that needs our attention. And don’t worry, if you didn’t submit the form, please feel free to come by and ask for help on the day of.
Click Here to let us know what you need mended
Check out our Mending Guide 2024 for ideas, videos, and instructions on how to fix a variety of garments.
CLOTHING SWAP
Bring a garment, take a garment…. Everything is FREE! The Fashion Club and The Clothing Swap Club are teaming up to help you swap your unwanted items for your newest fashion treasure.
- Please bring Maximum of 3 items per person. Clothing and accessories are welcome.
- All items must be in excellent wearable/usable condition.
- Please only bring CLEAN and unwrinkled garments.
- You don’t have to bring a garment in order to take a garment.
BIKE REPAIR APPOINTMENT
If you would like to bring your bike for a simple repair (or questions to be answered), 15 minute appointments are available starting at 3:15. please email Guy at
gtillotson@santarosa.edu
Testimony from 2023....
“The Green Living fair was a fantastic opportunity to meet new people working together in various clubs and organizations. It was a really vibrant event where people set up their booths to offer insight about what they were doing and how it can help others. The best way I would describe the event would be a knowledge hub. Principles ranging from biology/ecology to non-profit electronic repairs, fashion and sewing, and educating people about recycling and waste management, even petitions for saving our environment and climate. I would definitely recommend this event to anyone interested in learning and meeting new people. I had visited every booth and it was a great experience talking to everyone and seeing what they were involved in. Among the booths I had fun learning about gardening and plants at the bio club’s table from professor Zoger. The overall goal of the event definitely involves promoting eco-friendly practices and educating the community. Definitely a great experience.”
“The green living fair was a small event going on but it would have a large impact on others because it was all about learning ways to live more environmentally sustainable lives. I didn’t go to all the booths because I actually brought a clothing item I wanted to repair. At first, I wanted to mend my own clothing and learn how to sew but the woman was kind enough to do it for me. I asked her about the type of stitching that needed to be done to a tank top I thrifted a while back and learned about what tools she was using other than the sewing machine. I had such a great experience at this fair, I would definitely recommend anyone to go to the next one. I wish I took more time to look at each individual booth and learn more about it because they all looked so interesting.”
Santa Rosa Junior College's Strategic Plan Goal E establishes a culture of sustainability that promotes environmental stewardship, economic vitality, and social equity throughout all district sites.
Goals are to:
- Promote sustainability broadly across all areas of campus operations, student life, academics, and civic and community engagement
- Create professional development opportunities related to sustainability for faculty and staff Supporting student sustainability groups, clubs, and initiatives
- Oversee and promote environmental education at SRJC, including supporting the development of environmental courses and majors, administering the Global/Environment AS requirement, facilitating the Environmental Forum course, awarding Foundation scholarships, and assisting faculty across all disciplines to incorporate sustainability issues into their curricula
