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A rant.
- Soy wax is bad, unethical for the workers and takes up a lot of rainforest space.
- Bees wax is good, saves the bee population, contributes to pollination...
- Bamboo is a great alternative to many, many, many things!
- Pesticides always bad, organic farming way better.
- Organic farming needs farm animals.
- Sheep cannot be battery farmed, pigs can.
- Solar pannels are spenny.
- Plastic is always a bad alternative to everything.
- The cotton trade is still extremely flawed.
Now, that last one got me thinking. Clothing! I always thought "hey, I'll just make sure the clothes I buy are 100% cotton, or wool or linen or whatever, and not plastic!", but it would seem that the cotton industry contributes to a fair bit of eco-unfriendliness, and particularly treats it's workers very poorly.
So the conclusion that I came to here was the best way to purchase cotton is if it's fairtrade and organic. Easy! Except, the people who use organic, faitrade cotton in their clothing don't seem to know anything about clothes. And I shall link at the end the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Shapeless, lifeless, dull and boring. This is really the only way to describe the types of clothes you are limited to if you A) Want to be eco-friendly and B) Cannot sew for yourself. Now, while I understand that they may be going for a timeless look with some of these items, timeless doesn't have to mean frumpy. Basic doesn't have to mean uninspired. Even the prints look like they were drawn for cushions or carpets, not tops and dresses. And then these companies charge £100+ for these things!
I'm so very prepared to spend a little extra on something if I know the money is going back down the production line fairly. But I do also care about how I look, as I think do most people. And I do think that sustainability brands and companies are really not very inclusive in that respect. And this is before even going into how they exclude the poor and those from other cultures.
I really want people to want to be eco consious. But people are prideful about their looks, and honestly, that's ok! We shouldn't erase the diversity of people, or take away their ability to express themselves how they want. But these clothing companies don't seem too bothered about bringing people round to the cause. They seem to want to remain exlusive, and only availbale for the people who don't mind being stripped of all other identity.
I don't know, I disagree with this so much. I think the companies who make these clothes should be branching out to everyone, as many asthetics as possible! I think more high street companies should adopt fairtrade and organic clothing into their regular items! Because surely the goal here is to get as many people involved as possible? To make a sustainable lifestyle as accessible to people as possible. And I don't think we should be asking people to compromise their personalities to achieve this.
https://www.lanius.com/en/shop/clothing/?p=1
https://www.nonasties.in/
https://uk.organicbasics.com/
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