Kullan lmayan Giysilerin De erlendirilmesinde al an Kad nlar n Ekolojik Yakla mlar

In addition to reflecting personal characteristics of people, clothes are also determinative for status and they are characterizedas a vital need, of which women care about selection and they mostly need support for selecting a particular cloth. Emphasize onwearing and toilette by women due to their very nature, sorted colors, styles and models of clothes lead to more comprehensivecloth preferences by women in comparison with men. When women started to more commonly involve working life, wearingstyles also started to gain importance with regards the working environment and their working positions(Koca and Ko , 2008;172).Form and style of clothes are very important for women with regards the social activities, cultural background, aestheticapproach and attempts towards gaining a social position in the society via her working life. This importance causes divergence ofclothes and accordingly, reduction in time of actively wearing a particular cloth. When type and forms of clothes are increased, apart of clothes left to the wardrobe and somehow disposed is led to garbage dump and it leads to visual, economical andenvironmental problems.Getting more widespread due to globalization, the fashion trends gained a position directly influencing aesthetic tastes andwearing style with support of the media. Intense use of communication devices, recently, started to influence world’s fashion,societies and human in a similar manner. Therefore, in addition to the increased wearing consumption, the inadequacy in recyclingold clothes combined concepts of textile and ecology.When this issue is examined from a wide perspective, feeling of employed women towards more care about wearing stylesdue to their positions and towards following fashion trends caused an increase in wearing styles and thus reduction in economiclife of clothes. Thus, there is an accumulation in number of clothes unused and left to the wardrobe, and a substantial amount ofclothes is directed to garbage dumps in our society lacking awareness on efficient cloth evaluation approach such as recycling anddonation. This fact not only caused tremendous economic losses, but also it may damage ecological balance. Recently, as effortsare made by non-governmental organizations and environmentalist organizations for increasing awareness of society and theconcept of global warming is in the agenda, particularly young generation tended ecological cloths, but it is known that theseefforts are inadequate and the whole society should be more responsible on the issue of re-use of old clothes.In this study which was conduct