The fashion industry is the biggest polluter of our planet nextto oil, so The Great British Sewing Bee returns to Reduce,Reuse and Recycle Week, with all the usual fabric in thehaberdashery being replaced with charity shop clothes andsoft-furnishings. Host Joe Lycett kicks the six remaining homesewers off with a pattern for a gentleman's waistcoat usingjust second-hand clothes.In the Transformation Challenge, thesewers are tasked with changing items of army surplus into astylish and wearable garment for a woman.Finally, the sewersare asked to use old jeans to create a Made to Measure dress.Jeans are one of the most polluting garments to manufacture,so to breathe a new lease of life into them, the sewers mustcreate a new denim dress that fits their model perfectly. Atthe end someone will win Garment of the Week and the sixthsewer is asked to leave the Sewing Bee.
