- Overview
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This is a cute, lovely picture book about the environment which looks back at the trend of Fast Fashion as "blind consumption" and presents "good consumption" through a single piece of clothing.
- Book Intro
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Do you always find yourself with no clothes, even though you continue to buy them? Let's try to create our own style and protect the environment with good consumption! A collage of pictures of clothes sewn by hand and valuable information about environment stand out! Enjoy the visual joy as seeing the author's hand-made clothing and drawings that parody renowned scenes from movies! Mimi needed new clothes. Her clothes have gotten small. New clothes must be of good quality and must match the style of the clothes in her closet. But she should not buy clothes that don't fit or clothes that only follow trends. And she should not blindly buy clothes only because they are cheap. The consumption pattern of Mimi is different from the trends of today. People are used to the vicious cycle of buying, getting tired of soon, throwing away and buying new clothes." On the other hand, she carefully thinks through a lot of things when buying a single article of clothing. She patches old clothes and takes those that do not fit to the flea market. She wears, fixes and alters clothes from the moment she buys them, and even alters them for other to wear. While the process is long and slow, it gives us a lesson about good consumption and warm consumption. Readers also can get valuable Information about how the price of clothing is calculated, why impulsive spending must be avoided, and where clothes that are thrown away end up, and so forth. The balance among cute and friendly characters, small and interesting clothing, and natural pencil touches in Mimi's Sweater create a picture book that will help children establish the concept of "clothing," "clothing culture" and "consumption."
- About the Author
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Jung Haeyoung
Same as Author
- Selection
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Gyeonggi Province, 2018, Good Contents Support Program
Arts Council Korea, 2019, Books for Sharing Literature