| Overviewwhat is ethical fashion, why is it significant, | | | | Why Now? |
| and why are we just hearing about it now? Well, to | | | | The glorious thing about the booming moral fashion |
| answer these questions we start with what is wrong | | | | industry is the huge spread of designs, colours, cuts, |
| with clothing production today. Most clothing available in | | | | fabrics and sizes now available. Long stigmatized as |
| shops today is produced in an immoral demeanour | | | | cousin to the burlap sack, the moral offerings today |
| using sweatshop and/or kid labour to guarantee a | | | | are design-oriented. Designers with heart are making |
| larger profit margin. Manufacturers use unsustainable | | | | lovely, attractive, edgy, classic, current, imaginative, and, |
| fabrics like non-organic cotton ( dubbed as natural, it | | | | yes, flattering pieces - ethics will simply not be |
| accounts for almost 25% of all pesticide use ) and | | | | compromised and thankfully neither does the appear |
| polyester ( which is a petroleum byproduct ). They use | | | | and feel of their work. Reducing our footprint can be |
| conventional dying practices which release chlorine, | | | | done without making any sacrifices. |
| chromium, and other contaminants into the environment | | | | One of the main driving forces of the ethical fashion |
| posing a health danger to the farmers, assemblers and | | | | boom is public awareness. Thanks to exposs on large |
| wearers ( seven of the top 15 pesticides used on | | | | makers, the undeniable fact that sweatshop labour is |
| standard US cotton crops are'possible' to'known' | | | | utilized for the overwhelming majority of production |
| human carcinogens ). The shift to moral production | | | | can't be ignored. The power of boycotting has been |
| practices in the clothing industry has been definitely | | | | proven, as has the power of voting with our dollars to |
| important for a long time making the market ripe for a | | | | support good practice. Thanks to accessible work |
| positive change. Shoppers are beginning to demand | | | | like'An Inconvenient Truth', the lay person is now not |
| better. | | | | free to soothe their environmental guilt with the denial |
| What is ethical Fashion?ethical fashion is that which is | | | | of the existence of global warming. Thanks to |
| produced using : fairly-paid and fairly-treated adult | | | | alternative medical practitioners, who deal with cause |
| employees ; sustainable fabrics and materials like | | | | rather than just symptom, we are learning that we can |
| organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, and reclaimed or | | | | build health by surrounding ourselves with and |
| recycled materials ; minimal impact fiber-reactive dyes | | | | consuming healthy things. |
| or plant dyes ; respect for a healthy environment and | | | | Consumers are growing weary of the quantity without |
| or product for the farmer, the assembler, and the | | | | quality mind-set. Most designers with a moral bent to |
| wearer of the clothing. | | | | their art, work in small groups, manufacturing high |
| Why Ethical Fashion?we are all responsible for how | | | | quality goods with phenomenal fabrics. Patrons are, in |
| our own lifestyles affect the environment. Easy | | | | rising numbers, appreciating the right to vote with their |
| measures can be taken to achieve big changes by | | | | greenbacks ; and are exercising it to support |
| simply switching our purchasing patterns to incorporate | | | | expansion of the sustainable textile industry, little |
| products made from low impact materials. Positive | | | | farmers and farm co-operatives. We are all looking for |
| stress on enterprises who have not begun to volutarily | | | | methods to reduce our environmental impact, increase |
| clean up their acts is extremely easily applied by simply | | | | our social contribution, ease our consciences, hold on to |
| choosing not to spend on their products, and helping - | | | | some creature comforts, and continue celebrating art |
| little by little - to grow the companies who have made | | | | in all its forms. |
| an explicit dedication to responsible business practice. | | | | . |