Cost is a huge barrier to access, but especially in ethical fashion. On the eve of Fashion Revolution Week 2019, we should be careful as advocates to remember that income plays a huge role in our ability to purchase ethical and sustainable goods.
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Think Ethical Fashion is Boring? 45 Sustainable Brands that Prove Otherwise
Do you think ethical fashion is boring and all one note? I’m sharing 13 style genres and 45 sustainable and slow fashion brands for women that prove otherwise.
#FashRev Week | #Haulternative DIY: Beet Dyed Blouse
Thanks to Justina at Smockwalker Vintage for providing goods to DIY. The last post in my #Haulternative series! See the embroidered blouse and the fringed denim. I had originally intended to cover up a few small stains on this blouse with Indigo, but there is no indigo to be found in this town! I ended…
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#FashRev Week | #Haulternative DIY: Fringed Denim
Denim provided by Smockwalker Vintage. See yesterday's #Haulternative post here. This season's fringed denim trend is screaming for a DIY. I mean, there's literally no reason to go buy someone else's (likely a sweatshop worker's) upcycling project when there's such an abundance of denim on the secondhand market. Justina at Smockwalker Vintage provided these groovy…
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#FashRev Week | #Haulternative DIY: Custom Embroidered Blouse
Blouse provided and embroidered by Justina at Smockwalker Vintage. It's Fashion Revolution Week! This year I'm posting three days of DIYs inspired by Fashion Revolution's #haulternative prompt... #Haulternative: the sustainable version of a shopping haul, spotlighting dearly loved, vintage, secondhand, swapped, rented, and upcycled goods in an effort to show that fashion is about more…
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Save the Date: Fashion Revolution 2018
Fashion Revolution, the world's biggest ethical fashion action, takes place this year from April 23rd-29th. Fashion Revolution was founded by two fashion designers after Rana Plaza, a massive garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed due to faulty architecture and safety compliance failures, killing more than 1,134 people and injuring 2,500. Since then, components of the…