My own Wartime Wardrobe Challenge may have come to a close, but it seems that the challenge itself is set to live on for another year, with several bloggers across the world taking up the gauntlet to see if they can survive on British wartime clothes rationing in 2014. I’m feeling like a proud mother sending her child off to University and I know Meg is too. It really is a great feeling to know that an idea you helped to bring to life has grown wings and flown off on its merry way around the globe 
The challenge is designed to make you think about your clothes consumption and wardrobe ethics by making do and mending, making ethical choices and only purchasing what is strictly necessary. Having received a a pair of gloves and a pair of slippers for Xmas, I ended 2013 having used up 60 of my 66 coupons – not too shabby!!
I’m hoping to keep following the principles of the challenge, as I feel like some of them have become ingrained in me anyway, so it will be interesting to see what my wardrobe footprint looks like at the end of 2014, in the absence of coupon counting! I did acquire some new items have a total blowout in the New Year sales, picking up some great ethical bargains and yet another set of undercrackers (I think I need help). I was also sent an incredible bamboo baselayer top to review on behalf of a magazine I write for, and I am utterly besotted with it – bamboo fabric is so amazingly soft!!
Take Part in 2014
If you missed out on the challenge last year, but fancy giving it a go in 2014, please do feel free to use any of the graphics, banners, coupon charts and rules that I’ve inserted at the bottom of this post to get started. You can get the full lowdown on the challenge in my original post here: Introducing… the Wartime Wardrobe Challenge.
Alternatively, if you would rather follow along with another blogger than take it up on your lonesome, here are the details of the new custodians of the challenge – each one has taken a slightly different approach and slightly different rules so have a look and see which floats your boat:
- Sew for a Change 2014 - run by Swedish bloggers Alexandra and Malin (don’t worry, Alexandra blogs in English!) this challenge runs from February to December, so you haven’t missed anything yet! Allowing 75 coupons, the challenge has a focus on making your own clothes and offers monthly opportunities to ‘earn’ extra points by completing green challenges.
- Life During Wartime Challenge – Jackie is taking on the mother of wartime challenges; not only is she rationing her clothing, but is also rationing her toiletries, household cleaning supplies and tea according to UK wartime standards. If you’re keen to learn more about green cleaning methods and making your own toiletries, this is the challenge for you, and Jackie’s whole blog is dedicated to it.
- Debate Create Wartime Wardrobe Challenge – Super excited that our humble little challenge has been picked up all the way across the other side of the world! Yep, we’ve gone to Australia! Debate Create are following the ‘traditional’ challenge as originally outlined by Meg and I, so this is the one for you if you like the sound of the original rules and coupon allowances.
(P.S. If you are doing the challenge and I haven’t listed you, please do get in touch and let me know all about it so I can add you to this list)
Good luck to all of you taking part, and I can’t wait to follow your journeys over the next year!
Resources
Feel free to use any of the resources below if you’re planning to blog about the Wartime Wardrobe Challenge in 2014, but please include a little link back to the original challenge post. You’re a gem.
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