
SCHOOL UNIFORM SOURCING + LUNCH BOX CONTAINERS
Eco + Conscious Living
I talked about this on stories as Clayton started school but I wanted to put it here so you could share and reference it more easily! The real takeaway here…
After looking into the brands above down to what percentage elastane the jeans were… I realised I just had no need to buy new. My one existing pair of jeans I love are Madewell. I didn’t want to buy new Madewell again as they’re not made by the values I wanted, but there’s a lot of second hand Madewell online. I first looked at Thred up which I’ve used before and there wasn’t a pair there but Poshmark had so many! I knew I wanted black and high waisted and I knew my size from my other pair. I paid $70 and 3 days later I was wearing them! I love second hand because there’s no huge weight of resources used to make them, and you’re saving them potentially from landfill. (Did you now 6% of New York trash is clothes?!) It’s a very eco friendly way to shop, and if you can do it locally with no shipping involved even better but mine arrived with no plastic just wrapped in paper!
While these two brands aren’t celebrated for fair labor, they are taking steps, and they’re jeans we’ve bought in the past. The denim industry uses and contaminates large amounts of water in parts of the world where it’s scarce, so Levi’s started their waterless line to combat that. Gustin are crowd funded which means they are made to order, the beauty of this is that there is very little waste, and a lot less than any other manufacturer who creates more than they likely sell. Both of these things put less demand on resources, and create less waste so I thought they should be mentioned!
If you want to read more about our clothing journey:
It started with Food: Is a blog post explaining how a journey that began at healthy food naturally progressed to what we wear and discovering the story behind every purchase we make.
14 Ethical Clothing brands we’re loving and Concious Clothing Solutions are two posts with some ideas of companies we love that make clothes more consciously for people and the environment.
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