Fashion moves in seasons. A new collection drops every few weeks, whether we're ready or not. A flax plant keeps its own season, and it won't be rushed for anyone's calendar. This month we follow author Eve Schaub, who cleared out her vegetable garden and planted flax instead, trading a fast-fashion habit for a two-year apprenticeship in scutching, hackling, spinning, weaving, and sewing her own dress from seed to hem. We'll pair her story with the essay that first named this instinct: Kate Fletcher's 2007 call for "slow fashion," which argues that a fiber takes the same amount of time to grow no matter how fast a store shelf turns over — the clock was never really ours to speed up. What would it mean to give a piece of clothing the time it actually takes to make? And what do we lose when we don't?

Texts: Fio Geiran and Janaya Williams' "She Isn't Just Sewing a Dress. She's Growing One" (NPR, August 12, 2026) & Kate Fletcher's "Slow Fashion" (The Ecologist, June 2007)

Date: Saturday, September 19 at 2pm

Location: Edgewater Park with Aditi and Rob

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