“Like Stitches to a Wound”: Fashioning Taste in and Through Garment Mending Practices

This article immerses the reader into world of garment mending in communal repair events four cities— Helsinki, Auckland, Wellington, and Edinburgh—to explore as a locus taste. It engages discussion on taste reflexive activity sensed effect that gradually reveals itself to practitioners engaged practice mending. Here focus is role body interplay between sensing materials, show how everyday menders construct for toward their over time. As actively engage with appropriate given design garments, they defy mainstream wasteful fast-fashion practices mobilize variations dress while connecting matter makes up clothing . By engaging notion this way, overall aim clarify become able form an alliance practice, ultimately converting object passion.