Tag: Recycled Clothing

Think Outside the Box : How to Make a Difference Starting With Your Wardrobe

Here’s the irony: fashion is short-lived while fabric and pollution are not. After all of the inspiration, design, and excitement pass, the clothes remain. Heavy Flannel, Acid-washed denim, Break dancing pants. They’re out there still, in closets, thrift stores, and land fills. Eco-savvy fashion choices mean not only reducing post-consumer refuse, but also pre-consumer waste […]

The Global Afterlife Of Your Donated Clothes

BY: Jackie Northam | NPR On a bright and warm Saturday morning, there’s a steady flow of people dropping off donations at Martha’s Table, a charity in downtown Washington, D.C. A mountain of plastic and paper bags stuffed with used dresses, scarves, skirts and footwear expands in one corner of the room. Volunteers sort and […]

WARNING – What Every Vintage Clothing Collector should be on the LOOK OUT FOR!

Vintage Clothing is no longer just fashion desired by the fashionistas or hipsters, but is now a trend that people from all walks of life are getting into. There are many benefits to collecting and recycling vintage clothing, less waist, recycling textiles etc… however there are some con’s to collecting old clothing as well. A […]

Clothing Recycling Goes Curbside as Demand Rises

Did you ever wonder what happens to your clothing after you put it into a donation bin? Sometimes it ends up in a thrift store, sometimes it ends up in a vintage shop and sometimes it ends up being processed to be reused as a wiping rag. Wendy Koch, an investigative reporter at USA Today […]

Vintage Denim Jackets Wholesale

The Dust Factory vintage wholesale clothing denim jacket collection is one of a kind. The vintage jean jacket has always been a fashion luminary. Denim continues to attract a multitude of consumers from actors, to rockers, from hipsters to western wearers and from greasers to regular folks on the street. From its strong presence in […]

Vintage T-shirts

Vintage T Shirts The US fighter pilots in the south pacific during WWII made undershirts fashionable when they decorated them with their old military slogans, Since then people long for the feeling a perfect t-shirt, light and soft, thin and timeless. The Dust Factory collection of Vintage T-Shirts fulfills these desires and then some. , […]

Vintage Levi Jeans

Vintage Levi Denim Pants There is no modern technology that could produce or duplicate the ideal fit generated from years of breaking in a pair of great Levi’s. It takes decades of work and wear to create just the right whiskers, fade, and fashionable age. Providing true vintage Levi’s in styles 517 and 501, this […]

The Passion Behind Wholesale Vintage Clothing

Article Originally Published At Born Activist. For over 12 years now the skilled team of designers and buyers at Dust Factory Vintage Clothing Wholesale has been processing thousands of pounds of clothing a day in attempt to recycle the clothing before it hits the landfills. Each piece that can be used in a vintage retail […]