Thrift Flip

A resource with tutorials and inspiration to help flip your outdated fashion and clothing into something that makes it feel like a brand new piece.

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Inspiration

The consumer industry right now is based on fast fashion and allows for a lot of waste in clothing materials. The inspiration behind this project was to combat that and make fashion more environmentally friendly. The website lets users recreate different styles from clothing that they already own. This allows for the cycle of fast fashion to break and makes clothing more sustainable.

What it does

Through this site, you can navigate through various tutorials to learn how to alter your existing clothing into something more fashionable and wearable. The home page starts out with an about and mission statement section. If you scroll down(or use the navigation bar at the top), you can browse the tutorials and click the one you want to view. This will take you to a new page where the custom graphics and instructions exist to guide you through the flipping process. You can click the home button at the top to go back to the home page and find new tutorials to view.

How I built it

We built this site using HTML and CSS to add the framework and the animations. We published the site using Github.

Challenges I ran into

Some challenges we ran into were working in a remote environment. All 3 of our group members were working from our own homes, so it was definitely challenging to collaborate over the virtual environment. We also were all new at working on the front-end side of a project, so learning HTML and CSS as we went was challenging. Adding animations in with CSS was the most challenging but rewarding part of this project.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

One accomplishment we were proud of was finishing the site within the timeframe. It was a large project to take on, but ultimately we were proud of the result. We're also proud of the fact that we were able to create multiple pages on HTML, as this was something we had not taken on in a project before.

What I learned

Through this project, we learned about front end development, specifically about implementing HTML and CSS in various situations. We also learned about using GitHub to host websites. It was rewarding to have a finished product that anyone could find on the internet.

What's next for Thrift Flip

Our long term goal is to develop an app version of Thrift Flip so that anyone can easily access tutorials on their smartphones as well. In the short term, we can want to add more tutorials to the site and also revamp the site by adding more sections and interactive animations as well.

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