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eco-sustainable/fair trade clothing
calenlass:
Well, I have to wear something on laundry day.
sean:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 30 Apr 2008, 16:06 ---Nudity is the answer.
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mooface:
first off, i don't want to be a bitch but i specifically said "this thread isn't here to discuss the merits and flaws of sweatshops." if you don't have a problem with/don't care where your clothes come from then that's fine. it's your choice.
but i want to have a choice too, and that's what this is partly about. i want to be able to dress stylishly but i also want to have a decision about where my clothes come from. that, to me, is more important than the price of clothing. i would rather buy 1 dress for $100 handmade by a designer rather than 5 t-shirts from F21 when i don't know where they come from.
if you think this is ridiculous, then that's fine. maybe it kind of is! but i think it's important that we, as consumers, are able to have a choice when it comes to the price, quality, style and making of the clothing we buy. maybe if companies see that there is enough interest in buying "ethical clothing" they will, at the very least, see it as a profitable venture to pander to "goddamn hippies" and start to make a change in their business practices. i don't know if that will ever happen but that's not what it's about for me anyways.
i'm not vegetarian because i think everyone should stop eating meat and killing animals. i'm a vegetarian because i am sad about animals dying so i choose not to eat them.
i'm not trying to change the world here. i just don't want to buy clothes that are made in sweatshops so i choose not to buy them.
this thread is here so that if anybody else has a similar interest then they could recommend similar sites and companies that take part in this movement.
manda: thanks for the heads up about saucony! i'll definitely look into it next time.
katie: i'm sorry you didn't like any of the sites i put up, but to be honest most of them merely reflected my own taste in clothing. hopefully and most probably there are other ones that you might like but that i just didn't find, or that i saw but never bookmarked because they didn't exactly fit my taste.
anyone who is interested: here is a site that sells really pretty vintage jewelry for really decent prices. i have a thing for lockets so this was really exciting for me to find.
calenlass:
Do you remember any of the site names? Because I only went to a couple of sites you don't have listed, and they were just the ones I found associated on the listed sites.
Also most of my commentary was probably inspired by a few particular key items I recalled, and was not for bashing anyone's particular style.
Or maybe I do hate all the clothes, and you just manage to make them hot, Mai. I dunno
Darkbluerabbit:
I will throw out THESE. The Green Toe line is kind of hippie-dippy, but some of the EcoSneaks are pretty cute.
It's not so much that not supporting the bad companies will hurt them. I realize that it probably won't, unless people amazingly stop buying sweatshop goods in some kind of mass movement. However, when you take your money and spend it on something from a more responsible company, you can actually help them. especially if they are smaller or local.
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