Sustainable Fashion

An eighth-grade teacher in New Jersey wore the same dress for 100 consecutive days to call attention to the need for sustainable fashion.

Walk into your average middle school in America and you’ll encounter some of the most self-conscious people on the planet — eighth-graders.

These kids are a jangle of nerves and emotions. They’re on the cusp of high school and want desperately to know someone in high school. Eighth-graders are those kids with whom no self-respecting high schooler wants to hang out. They’re often arrogant, hateful and sometimes both. They’re emotionally sensitive. They eye roll a lot.

Eighth-graders are denizens, according to some, of Dante’s fifth circle of hell: “A grotesque wasteland where underqualified teachers and posers alike turn defenseless 12-year-olds into vapid shells of their former selves. After about three years of this methodical torture, these poor souls are shipped to the sixth circle of hell, otherwise known as high school.”

A typical eighth-grader wakes up and goes to the closet to pick out clothes for the day believing that every...