Need a spring wardrobe refresh? Swap, don’t shop.
To combat textile waste, the Chicago Fair Trade Museum is hosting what it’s billing as “Chicago’s biggest community clothing swap,” Friday through Sunday.
Swaps are one way to reduce the 11 million tons of clothing the U.S. alone sends to landfills each year “by extending the life cycle of garments and reducing demand for new production,” according to Katherine Bissell Cordova, executive director of Chicago Fair Trade…