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There are other points she wants to make to her students. For one, she wants them to be more aware of the societal pressure we all feel to wear something new and different every day, pressure Mooney is not immune to.

“I like to wear clothes; I like to express myself,” she says. “I know that we are all looking at what the other person is wearing. To wear the same thing every day is uncomfortable because we have this deeply ingrained cultural expectation to change every day. It’s weird, but because it’s weird it’s making us all think.”

She’s also keen to discuss the environmental impact of the fast-fashion industry. By many estimates, global consumption of clothing has gone up by 60 percent since 2000, in large part because we use our clothing less before tossing it to buy something new. Although new clothing costs less at the register than it used to, we’ll be paying for it in other ways: It takes 713 gallons of water to make a traditional cotton T-shirt, HuffPost reports. A polyester shirt would use less water, but its manufacture emits twice as much carbon dioxide. The textile industry emits more carbon dioxide annually than international flights and airline shipping, according to Nature, and generates one-fifth of China’s water pollution, according to Greenpeace.

Mooney wants to discuss how the demand for cheap clothing also creates an incentive for companies to manufacture it in countries with cheaper labor and poor working conditions. That’s part of why for these 100 days she is wearing a dress from London-based Thought Clothing, which certifies its apparel as fair trade. The pebble gray Jazmenia dress was also a  practical choice.

“I needed to pick a dress that was going to be versatile because I’m going to be wearing it through the winter, and when we started the school year it was 90 degrees,” she says. “So I’m going to have to add some tights to it and some boots during the winter, and maybe a cardigan. I also chose a plain dress so I could maybe change it up with a scarf or something. It’s also made of a durable material, hemp, which sort of wears in instead of wearing out.”

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