Danielle Vermeer

I’ve been sitting on a weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s for the better part of 15 years now so I figured I would write it up as a thread 1/

Until recently, there was very little understanding or acknowledgment of the physical and psychological effects of systemic racism, intergenerational trauma, and gender discrimination.

Sojo is a London-based app that connects brands and consumers with seamsters with the goal of extending the life of new, pre-loved and vintage clothing.

Off the rack clothes are not designed to fit you. And I mean you, as in you specifically. They are made to roughly fit 1000s of people who kinda-sorta share several similar body traits because it’s inexpensive, off the rack fashion, not bespoke custom and that’s how it works.

Automated curation will not replace human curators. Despite Skyscanner’s powerful algorithms, Jack’s Flight Club has 1,500,000+ members and ~$800,000 in revenue.

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The app connects clothing brands, and consumers, with individual seamsters who can mend, alter or tailor new or pre-loved clothing. The app has many aims, according to its 24-year-old founder Josephine Philips: It wants to extend the lifetime of clothing, and generate work for the many small seamster businesses on high streets across the country.

Agency is the drive to play a game you created. Chart your own path. Forget politics. Work when, how, and where you want. Lean in—to your unique “why.”