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Conscious Costume offers many opportunities to volunteer in person and remote! Click below or message us for current opportunities to keep capitalism out of costuming!

Scrap Squad is a cross-industry effort by apparel, costume, and textile artists and businesses in the greater Chicagoland. Our mission is to touch on the different communities who use textiles and create options for a systemic shift in evaluating waste by finding ways to sustainably reuse, rehome, and recycle fabric and textile waste.

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Protest sign “There are no jobs on a dead planet”Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Protest sign “There are no jobs on a dead planet”

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Deadstock is NOT a perfect solution to making more sustainable costumes. From incentivizing overproduction to reinforcing opaque textile supply chains, deadstock fabrics are filled with potential problems. While you are using deadstock fabrics in you
🔗to all are available for our valued Patrons! Y’all make this work possible. Together, we can raise the dead 🧟‍♀️ stock and give it new life in our costumes! This list is US based because a vast majority of our followers are located in
👀Looking for easy ways to be more sustainable in your costume design? 💀 Consider Deadstock Fabrics! There may be fewer fabric options, but a little creativity goes a long way. Plus we’re about to drop a post listing lots of places to look f
THANK YOU for coming out and swapping to make a greener theatre industry and Halloween for Chicago! We’re still tallying all the numbers but we had over 200 people and approximately 2,000 lbs of textiles swapped this weekend. For the first ti
TOMORROW! The @chigreentheatre and Conscious Costume are hosting a costume swap at @steeptheatre . 🎃 Not in Chicago? Not available this weekend? Check out our calendar of sales and swaps including: @sloreptheatre @americanrep @shakespeareindc
Join us MONDAY OCT. 21 3:00-6:00 at 2021 W. Fulton K-111, meet other sustainable costume artists and take a look at our newest acquisitions while volunteering with Conscious Costume. The 3rd Monday of the month is our volunteer day so drop by betwee
📣THIS WEEK: Chicago Green Theatre Alliance and Conscious Costume are excited to join Steep Theatre on 🎃OCTOBER 18 + 19 🎃 for another round of fun, free costumes, fabulous friends, and freeing your household AND theatre textiles. As always, we ask
Conscious Costume will be closed on Monday 10/14 in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day.
📣Celebrate the CGTA 10th Anniversary and our 9th Costume Swap! @C@chigreentheatre and Conscious Costume are excited to join @steeptheatre on 🎃OCTOBER 18 + 19 🎃 for another round of fun, free costumes, fabulous friends, and freeing your household