Feel Good Friday Clothing, Sydney (2026)

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https://feelgoodfridayclothing.com/

12/11/2025

Lesson 2 from Melbourne Fashion Week: Well Made, Well Worn.

This year’s Sacred Heart runway show reminded us that fashion isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s about ethics, durability, and community. Hosted by the fabulous Ginger and Carmen, the event celebrated “Op Shop dressing” with flair and purpose. Sacred Heart CEO Hang Vo shared the organisation’s vital work supporting women and people in need, while Olga Pokrovskaya (.au) moderated a powerful panel—yes, her surname gave the hosts a moment of pause, but the insights were unforgettable.

Clare Press, author of Wardrobe Crisis, shared some sobering statistics:

🌏 Once 97% of Australian garments were made locally. Today? Just 3%.

🧥 30% of garments go straight from factory to landfill.

🌍 Globally, fashion contributes $1.5 trillion annually—often at great human and environmental cost.

💰 The prices of some of the fast fashion available to the market was shocking. She shared a load of them.

What resonated most:

- Functional, durable design stands the test of time.

- Making for orders, or slow fashion, will help to reduce garment waste in construction.

- Fabric sourcing is a shared challenge that even top designers face. Some are relying on headstock and remnants.

- End-of-life garment recycling is gaining traction. We’re keen to pilot this at FGFC.

These lessons affirm that Feel Good Friday Clothing is on the right track - producing inclusive, safety-compliant workwear locally, even when it’s harder than offshore manufacturing.

Let’s keep pushing for:

- Transparent supply chains

- Inclusive design standards

- Local Manufacturing

We really hope that the after runway shop was a sellout.

04/11/2025

Lessons from Melbourne Fashion Week: Fashion for Every Body
Last week, we attended M/FW Conversations: Fashion for Every Body. The panelists - brilliant Australian designers Kerry Pietrobon, Fatuma Ndenzake from Closet Collective, and Gabriel Cole from ASAU - shared powerful insights into how the fashion industry is shifting.

As an engineer who now also wears the title of Dressmaker (aka Founder), I found their perspectives deeply resonant.

The conversation explored how fashion intersects with culture, gender, ability, and size - and how these dimensions are shaping design across the country. We then joined a roundtable focused on designing for body diversity and inclusive fit. That hit home. At Feel Good Friday Clothing, right-fitting safety workwear is the number one issue we’re solving.

Here are four lessons we’re carrying forward:

👗 Lesson 1: Know the Customer
They’re not just buyers. They are part of the designer’s community. Their values should align with ours. Our customers wear our brand, represent it, and often become our biggest cheerleaders.

🧍 Lesson 2: Fashion Is for Every Body
Stay people-focused. Sometimes we need to educate customers on why inclusive design matters. Our clothing is for people who are young, old, male, female, Black, white, yellow, or somewhere in between.

🌐 Lesson 3: Invite Everyone to the Runway (or Construction Site)
As an inclusive brand, we want everyone who wears our clothing to feel confident, safe, and seen. There’s a place for them in construction. Our garments should reflect that.

At the Build Exhibition, a first-year apprentice told us she couldn’t find shirts or trousers that fit and made her feel great. She was larger than the average Australian woman (who wears a size 16). We’ve got her covered.

🎭 Lesson 4: Fashion Is the Language of Identity
At Feel Good Friday Clothing, we know that clothing can connect, or disconnect, people from the construction site. Our branding reflects the world we want to see: people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, and abilities working side by side. It’s not always easy to express that through clothing, but we’re committed to finding a way.

As Fatuma also said .... please don't just read this post and do nothing. Please head over to our website and express interest in buying a shirt from our next production run. www.feelgoodfridayclothing.com

29/10/2025

This is a new shirt that we have been working on.

The aboriginal patterned materials are sourced locally through a trusted supplier. This shirt is based on the work of Josie Cavanagh. The material pattern is called Meeting Places.

Meeting places are important in aboriginal culture. Elders and others meet together to discuss the wellbeing of the community. All these gatherings address one of the other interactive insights into the traditional skills, ancient stories and day to day life of Aboriginal People. The various circles in the artwork represent waterholes and the people sitting around the circle to discuss their community matters.

For Feel Good Friday Clothing, this resonates for us as a story that the Construction industry shares with the aboriginal people. When we consult effectively with our communities we share their learning and our work, to strive for a best for project outcome.

To find out more about our shirts head over to our website

www.feelgoodfridayclothing.com

23/10/2025

Over the last couple of days, we have been at Melbourne Fashion Week. We’ve sat on sessions about starting up in fashion as well as providing right fitting clothing for Every Body.

We can’t wait for tomorrow where we go to our first runway show. Fingers crossed we will be invited to participate next year! We are hoping to be part of a runway show on garments for purpose. 🤞🤞

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22/10/2025

Today we dropped by the Build Expo in Melbourne to listen to a talk about how how Corporations, Leaders and Allies can support the LGBQTAI community.

The similarities between the challenges for this community and women in construction was striking.

It was great to catch up with leaders from Women in Trades and others at the event. The frequent and recurring problem being faced by women in construction is ill fitting PPE. Thankfully, that’s our number one purpose.

14/10/2025

At Feel Good Friday Clothing we are always working on trying to bring new patterns to market.

This shirt will be known as Just Like the People.

We are hoping to bring this shirt to market in conjunction with one of our favourite charities. Please like and share if this is a shirt that you'd be interested in wearing. (This is an AI Generated image based on our designs)

Perhaps drop over to our website to register your interest in a pre-order for the shirt so that you don't miss out.

Our garments are designed for male and female body shapes and are suitable for all genders.

www.feelgoodfridayclothing.com

08/10/2025

Back Her Brilliance has launched.

Feel Good Friday Clothing are proud to be part of the Global Sisters network.

Back Her Brilliance connects Australia’s women-led micro businesses with companies committed to buying better. From everyday essentials to standout services, it’s the simplest way to turn business-as-usual into business-for-good.

Every purchase drives economic inclusion for women. Every transaction creates real, measurable impact. This is a world-first innovation unlocking the untapped power of corporate spend — transforming procurement into progress.

Fast. Purposeful. Powerful. This is how we do Good Business.

Back a better future.

If you are part of that network, please drop by our page and look us up.

https://www.backherbrilliance.com

15/08/2025

We are excited to be part of something exciting ... starting soon.

13/06/2025

We really need more orders to get our next run through the factory.

Get on board from the start! Be part of the change in our industry, that we need to support women and people to thrive.

Retail and wholesale prices available.

Please DM us or head over to our website to share your interest.

08/05/2025

We were delighted to attend this year’s Build Conference in Sydney this week. We listened intently to market insights offered by industry leaders from RPS, Mirvac, Turner and Cundall on social enterprise on the Sustainability Stage.

🌟A clear wish from the market leaders was a harmonised framework for defining and measuring the social value of works completed in this new sector
🌟Another interesting insight was that the UK has been leading industry in recognising the benefits of social value by many years. Australia is an emerging market.
🌟 Marker sector leaders in social value also appear to be driven by doing what is right, because its the right thing to do and builds their brand, even when its not specifically driven by the final client. 💫
🌟 Monetising social value is difficult.

We can’t wait to be involved in future discussions on adding social value on our future clients projects.

22/03/2025

So this morning we’ve been at the St Ives Farmers Market sharing our products and our story. It’s been a great opportunity to chat about what’s important to people in safety workwear.

21/03/2025

Tomorrow we will be sharing our wares and our story, at the St Ives Farmers Markets from 8am until about noon. If you are in the area … we’d love to meet you.

For pre-orders for the second production run click here … https://feelgoodfridayclothing.com

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