Freewear

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Freewear is an ongoing project that explores the possibilites of create garment out of free materials provided by the city. The Postal Gown
is the first 100% free product of Freeware which was made using Postal Tyvek envelopes
than can be found in any postal office for free. All the notions needed to sew the
dress were freecycled in its totality, using a network of gift-economy
named Freecycle.
Along with the exchange of goods, Freecycle also have an exchange of
stories, you are open to encounters with strangers and the city which
may have been otherwise foreclosed by dominant modes of exchange and
consumption. Hacking the Postal Office to get the main resource, enables
the user to detour the purpose of the public infrastructure to their own benefit.