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"When Cheyenne River Sioux tribal citizen Paulette Eagle Staff heard rumors
that a company was going to be offering jobs — well-paying jobs — on the
tribe’s reservation in South Dakota, she jumped at the opportunity.
Eagle Staff, 62, already knew how to sew so she had a head start as a
seamstress. She began working at an ethical and sustainable apparel brand
called Paskho, founded by fashion designer Patrick Robinson in 2015. Robinson
had spent decades designing clothing for companies from the Gap to Armani.
“Right now, we’ve been doing shirts, and you do the shirts in different
pieces,” Eagle Staff says. “And we put them together. They’re already cut out
and stuff like that; we just had to put everything together.”
Sustainability has been a focus of the fashion industry for some time, but this
focus on labor is what sets Paskho apart. Over the course of 2022, Eagle Staff
and nearly 50 others were hired as “makers,” in an effort to move Paskho’s
manufacturing from Asia to low-income communities across the United States.
Makers work in pods, community-driven groups who work together or on their own
time to create the clothing pieces in set locations across the U.S. In this
way, Paskho has created a model that disperses well-paying jobs into
communities that need them across the country."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
