Sustainable Fashion: A Handbook for Educators

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sustaInaBlE FashIon : a handBooK For Educators

Time Exercise Materials

0:00-0:10 Welcome and get to know each other:

• Trainers introduce themselves and briefly present the objectives and outline of the
  workshop.


• Participants introduce themselves: each person should say their name and favourite
  piece of clothing (e.g. favourite skirt, t-shirt) etc.


• Participants write their name on a label.

Labels for name

badges.

0:10-0:30 To understand the stages of garment production and interdependencies between

South and North:

• Trainer hangs the map.


• Trainer gives participants worksheets describing the stages of production.


• Ask participants to mark the location of the stages of production shown on the
  worksheet on the map. (Trainers’ Notes, ‘The Journey of the Jeans’, have been
  provided for guidance.)


• Trainer briefly describes each stage of production and gives participants the following
  questions:
  
  
  • Why does one pair of jeans need to travel so much in its production?
  
  
  • How does global production affect the environment, country economies or people in
    each country?
  
  
  • How does global production influence working conditions in factories?
  
  
  
  

Worksheet: Stages

in the Production of

Jeans showing the

stages of garment

production.

Map of the world

0:30-0:40 • Trainer shows the pieces of jeans and asks someone to suggest which supply chain

actor receives which percentage of the final cost of the jeans as represented by the

pieces.

• Once each piece has been allocated to a supply chain actor, ask the students if they
  are happy with that distribution.


• Trainer presents the right answers noting that this is just one example of how the final
  price is divided:
  
  
  • Retailer – 50%
  
  
  • Trademark – 25%
  
  
  • Transport, taxes, duties – 11%
  
  
  • Materials, profit wages for sub-contractors - 13%
  
  
  • Worker’s wage – 1%
  
  
  
  


• Trainer asks: Who makes the most profit from the global production in garments and
  is this situation fair?

Jeans (or picture)

cut to show who

gets what (shown in

handout).

Worksheet: ‘Who gets

what from the final

price of a pair of jeans

(in per cent)?’

0:40-1:00 What is behind this 1% for worker? Discussion about working conditions:

• Participants brainstorm what it is like to work in a factory. Trainer makes notes of the
  discussion. Then the trainer comments on the discussion and tries to arrange the ideas
  into categories on a flipchart, for example:
  
  
  • Working hours.
  
  
  • Health and safety.
  
  
  • Harassment and violence.
  
  
  • Trade unions.
  
  
  
  

The flipchart notes will be helpful in the next part of the workshop.

You may want to show a short film during this section (see http://

fashioninganethicalindustry.org/resources/ChinaBlue/)

You can use some

photos to show the

reality in factories.

Flipchart.

1:00-1:10 Break

worKshop plan