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Dressing Ethically
February 17 2010
Sanjida O'Connell took up the challenge to dress ethically for twelve months, and the year is now up.
She had huge amounts of help from experts including Dr Kate Fletcher (the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion), Lee Holdstock, (textile consultant), Clio Turton from the Soil Association and many designers, all kind enough to share their time and knowledge
The things she found difficult to buy ethically included thin tights, underwired bras and sports bras (you can buy them but not in larger cup sizes).
Her research into dressing ethically revealed that the production of our most common fabrics (cotton, polyester and viscose) badly affect human health and cause massive environmental damage including over consumption of energy and water and massive usage of pesticides (a quarter of all pesticides used in the world are sprayed on cotton) As we already know, the UK has been a throw away nation with tons of textiles ending up in landfill, but I believe recent figures show a reduction in these figures because of the recession (every cloud has a silver lining as they say)
People are demanding more from their fabrics and clothes now and there is a growing demand for desirable fabrics, cleaner dyes and ethical of fashion which is becoming mainstream. We all know the answers – buy less, buy better quality clothes, recycle, buy vintage, swap, buy from ethical designers and companies.
Sanjinda’s suggestion for a template wardrobe is to buy a new set of long-sleeved tops from Howies (when they reissue their merino wool base layers), a little black dress from ‘From Somewhere’, a pair of tailored trousers by Deborah Lindquist and a jumper from ‘Izzy Lane’ (who rescued sheep and makes garments from their wool), a few coloured tops from charities or a dress agency and them follow Kate Fletcher’s advice and only buy two pieces a year to build her collection of pieces that will never date and always look great!!
Sanjinda writes for the Independent newspaper and her article on eco chic can be read at the Independent online
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