consumer engagement challenges the "passive" mode of ready-to-wear fashion where consumers have few interfaces and little incentive to be active with their garments; to repair, change, update, swap, and learn from their wardrobe. the term "folk fashion" has been used in the emphasis on craft engagements with garments where the community heritage of skills are in focus. there are currently many designers trying to find ways that experiment with new models of action that deposes passivity and indifference while preserving the positive social dynamics and sensibilities fashion offers, often in relation to alvin toffler's notion of the "prosumer" (portmanteau of producer and consumer). notions of participatory design, open sourcefashion, and fashion hacktivism are parts of such endeavors, mixing techniques of dissemination with empowerment, reenechantment and paulo freire's "pedagogy of the oppressed." an example of such consumer engagement can be giana gonzalez and her project "hacking couture" which has tested such methods across the world since 2006.