During the holiday season, it’s easy to collect lots of new things and forget about the old. Old T-shirts can pile up so fast — souvenir T-shirts from various 10k races, outdated concert T-shirts, shirts that end up in your closet with no remembrance for how they showed up. There’s something special about the old and the pre-owned — something along the veins of “if these walls could talk.” Used items have a special history, a whole slew of stories and memories that a new shirt can’t compete with. SAVED is applying this idea to the clothing market, attesting that sometimes the old is better than the new, especially for the environment.
SAVED, a newly launched mission by the creatively green people at Green Thing, seeks to give new life to unwanted or discarded T-shirts. Donated T-shirts are washed, hand stitched with the SAVED lettering, and then given a SAVED story. Once the process is done, SAVED T-shirts end up for sale at their Facebook shop.