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Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 - fake fashion facts

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 - hannah moloney permaculture

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 - Muna & Broad

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 - free sewing pattern

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 – hillary waters fayle

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 - letters to the future

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 - natural dye DIY

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 - curly hair discrimination

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 - indoor plant troubleshooting

Peppermint magazine – Winter Issue 50 – hand-sewing feature

Winter Issue 50

• Letters to the future from today's changemakers • Permaculture champion Hannah Moloney’s new radical • Uncoiling race-based hair discrimination • Hillary Waters Fayle’s botanical art • Fat acceptance with Stephanie Yeboah's • The power of sustainable styling • Protecting First Nations' cultural heritage • The high steaks of meat sustainability • The history and tradition of hand-sewing • Hetty McKinnon on culture, connection and cooking •

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How to Be a Good Ally All Year Round… Not Just During Pride Month

Pride Month is here, which means it’s time to pop open a bottle of champagne, buy something with a rainbow on it...

Are Buy Now, Pay Later Services a Friend or Foe to the Ethical Fashion Industry?

Afterpay is having its day in the fashion industry, but are buy now, pay later services fuelling mindful or mindless purchases?

Meet the Patternmaker Behind the Peppermint Paddington Top

Start your (sewing machine) engines, our latest free pattern, the Peppermint Paddington Top, has landed! It’s a bold blouse pattern...

Business (Not) as Usual: The Aussie Brand Fighting Fast Fashion to Tailor A Better World

How often have you had a garment tailored? Your wedding dress, maybe? A fancy suit for work? Unfortunately it’s not...

One Dress, Five Ways – How to #WearTheChange by Making Your Wardrobe Go the Distance

How many times have you stood staring at an overflowing closet, lamenting the fact you had absolutely nothing to wear?!...

Natural Dyeing Tips for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Part experiment, part craft activity, the magical process of natural dyeing is a fun way to freshen up old wardrobe...

Hip Hip Hooray! Our Bumper 50th Issue Is Out and It’s the Biggest One Yet

“You’ve always said that you hope one day there’ll be no need for Peppermint anymore – when fashion just ‘is’...

Best of the Month: What the Peppermint Team Is Loving and Living For This May

It’s time for another edition of The Monthly Mint – a chance for you to join in the Peppermint office chat...

All Kilns Glazing: Meet the Local Pottery Brand Fighting for the Planet

After bursting onto the reusables scene with their planet-friendly, portable pottery adorned with eye-catching glazes, artist Clare Botfield and second-generation...

“Every Garment Counts”: Why The Fashion Advocate Made the Decision to Stop Stocking Polyester

When I launched The Fashion Advocate in 2014, I was convinced I could change the world. I was sitting front row at A.F. Vandevorst...

Just Keep Growing – How to Make Your Very Own DIY Fabric Planters

We’re not the first to sing the praises of plants, nor the benefits of getting crafty with your hands, but...

Business (Not) as Usual: This Coffee Company Is Changing the Game, Not the Player

If you think dumping your coffee grounds in the bin after your daily grind isn’t as harmful to the environment...

"What matters most are stories. Well-told stories shape culture, and culture determines what survives, thrives or dies."

- DAMON GAMEAU, ISSUE 50

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Circle round, eco pals! The lovely @sustainabilityinstyle has released a self-coaching sustainability planner and it’s out today. Designed for those of us who’ve ever experienced #EcoOverwhelm, the ‘Time is a Non-Renewable Resource’ planner offers simple tools to learn about internal motivators with sustainable strategies for self, people and planet. ⁠
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Head to @sustainabilityinstyle for more info. ⁠
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#SustainabilityinStyle #SustainabilityPlanners #SustainableStyle #SustainableLiving ⁠

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Afterpay is having its day in the fashion industry (#AAFW), but are buy now, pay later services fuelling mindful or mindless purchases? Do they promote overconsumption or open the often inaccessible market of ethically made fashion up to the masses? ⁠
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Over on the website, Brittanie Dreghorn, of online ethical fashion blog @brittslist, discovers more. Hit the link in bio to read more. ⁠
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#peppermintmagazine #sustainablefashion #ethicalfashion #buynowpaylater #afterpay

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OLD HABITS DYE HARD ⁠
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"Onion skins are probably one of the most common kitchen scraps for creating natural dyes. Even if you live in an apartment building in a big city, with no backyard garden or even herbs growing in window boxes, you can still collect enough onion skins for dyes. Just store them in a paper bag once they’re dry, building your collection until you have enough for your fibre project."⁠
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In our latest issue, writer, artist and teacher @KatrinaRodabaugh shares a fun food scrap-busting dye project from her latest book 'Make Thrift Mend'. Grab a copy from our website or your local newsy today to find out how to use onion skins to transform a cotton top!⁠
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📸 by Karen Pearson⁠
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#peppermintmagazine #makethriftmend #naturaldye #naturaldyeing #plantdye #slowdesign #slowtextiles #sustainabletextiles

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MEET THE PATTERNMAKER 🧵⁠
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"The sewing community is quite literally the nicest collection of people in the world. I would never have had the confidence to release even one pattern, never mind several, had it not been for the encouragement and support of this community."⁠
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Do you love the #PeppermintPaddingtonTop as much as we do?! In the spirit of going behind the seams, we caught up with Sarah Steenkamp of @frenchnavynow_ - the patternmaker behind our latest free pattern - to learn more about her business and to rack her brain for tips and tricks when creating your me-mades! Read more at the link in bio! ⁠
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#peppermintmagazine #peppermintpatterns #freesewingpatterns #sewersofinstagram #freepatterns #memade #sewcialists #slowfashion #sewinglove #makeityourself

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"My dream is that 50 years from now we have not built tougher borders or higher walls to stop human beings finding safety and freedom but a longer table with a seat for everyone. We have met the challenge of climate change to not create future generations of refugees. And we have a global community where refugees are welcomed with open arms and provided with protection, safety and opportunity, simply for being human.⁠
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I hope we no longer follow the drumbeat of racism and fear that betrays our hearts and moral compass and we awaken the best of us – an us that sees and affirms what unites us, celebrates our beautiful differences and believes we are all equal, we all matter and that we must all be free and safe to have a society worth being part of and proud of."⁠
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Fitting words from @asrc1's Kon Karapanagiotidis in our latest issue this World Refugee Day. ⁠
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#worldrefugeeday #refugeeswelcome #chooselove #nooneisillegal #bringthemhere

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We hope you're loving our special 50th issue as much as we do friends! Pro tip: locate a dreamy spot in the sunshine and devour in one sitting 🌻⁠
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#peppermintmagazine #sustainablefashion #ethicalfashion #naturalbeauty #socialenterprise #regeneration #socialimpact #climatechange #handmade #bodypositivity #giveback #worldchangers

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How many times have you stood staring at an overflowing closet, lamenting the fact you had absolutely nothing to wear?! It’s a sad reality that the average woman only wears 20% of her wardrobe – the horror of being labelled an “outfit repeater” often leading to wear-it-once purchases that then stay hidden, collecting dust till the end of time. ⁠
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So, while we wait patiently for the Clueless technology of our dreams to become a reality, inspired by @TheSocialOutfit's #WearTheChange challenge next week, we tasked our digital editor, Lauren Baxter, with styling one of our free sewing patterns – the #PeppermintBardonDress by @elbe_textiles – five ways over five days. Because just like the loveable Lizzie McGuire, we’re all outfit repeaters ‘round here. ⁠
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Head to the link in our bio to learn more about The Social Outfit, see how Lauren styled the dress, then challenge a friend to #WearTheChange in the comments below. Bonus points from us if you choose to style a Peppermint pattern!⁠
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#wearthechange #wearthechange2021 #thesocialoutfit #daretorewear #zerowasteculture #madeinaustralia #supportingrefugees #refugeeweek #peppermintpatterns #freesewingpatterns #sewersofinstagram #freepatterns #memade #sewcialists #slowfashion #sewinglove #makeityourself

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Winter Issue 50

How to Be a Good Ally All Year Round… Not Just During Pride Month

Are Buy Now, Pay Later Services a Friend or Foe to the Ethical Fashion Industry?

Meet the Patternmaker Behind the Peppermint Paddington Top

Business (Not) as Usual: The Aussie Brand Fighting Fast Fashion to Tailor A Better World

One Dress, Five Ways – How to #WearTheChange by Making Your Wardrobe Go the Distance

Natural Dyeing Tips for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Hip Hip Hooray! Our Bumper 50th Issue Is Out and It’s the Biggest One Yet

Best of the Month: What the Peppermint Team Is Loving and Living For This May

All Kilns Glazing: Meet the Local Pottery Brand Fighting for the Planet

“Every Garment Counts”: Why The Fashion Advocate Made the Decision to Stop Stocking Polyester

Just Keep Growing – How to Make Your Very Own DIY Fabric Planters

Business (Not) as Usual: This Coffee Company Is Changing the Game, Not the Player

- DAMON GAMEAU, ISSUE 50

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Winter Issue 50

A print magazine about style, sustainability and substance

How to Be a Good Ally All Year Round… Not Just During Pride Month

Are Buy Now, Pay Later Services a Friend or Foe to the Ethical Fashion Industry?

Meet the Patternmaker Behind the Peppermint Paddington Top

Business (Not) as Usual: The Aussie Brand Fighting Fast Fashion to Tailor A Better World

One Dress, Five Ways – How to #WearTheChange by Making Your Wardrobe Go the Distance

Natural Dyeing Tips for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

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Hip Hip Hooray! Our Bumper 50th Issue Is Out and It’s the Biggest One Yet

Best of the Month: What the Peppermint Team Is Loving and Living For This May

All Kilns Glazing: Meet the Local Pottery Brand Fighting for the Planet

“Every Garment Counts”: Why The Fashion Advocate Made the Decision to Stop Stocking Polyester

Just Keep Growing – How to Make Your Very Own DIY Fabric Planters

Business (Not) as Usual: This Coffee Company Is Changing the Game, Not the Player

- DAMON GAMEAU, ISSUE 50

hang out with us on instagram

HELLO

Thanks! We can't wait to drop you a line.