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Sustainable Style: From sustainable fashion to responsible fashion, this article gives everyone ideas on how to look fabulous while being stylish with the fabrics that is friendly to the environment.

Fashion is one of the best tools by which we can define our selves, build our confidence and achieve our goals by making a lasting impacts. Nevertheless, the emergence of the environmental concerns has made the fashion industry highlight the problems that it causes to the world. From the use of poisonous chemicals and environmental unfriendly materials, unfair treatment of workers, where is the fashion industry today? Luckily, a transition to more environmental fashion is taking place, and sustainable fashion is gaining this blog, we will look at the ways in which you can dress stylish and well while adopting sustainable fashion. With this episode we can be learning why sustainability needs to exist in fashion, how one can start or begin to build an environmentally friendly wardrobe, and ways to sustainably live in the course of the day/week.

Why Sustainable Fashion Should Be Promoted
1. Environmental effects attributes of fast fashion
This is because the fashion industry is one of the largest polluters in the world, next to only the oil industry. Fast fashion—affordable, timely looking garments made in large amounts—has become a popular culture and bring many problems. The United Nations says that fashion sector is accountable for a tenth of the carbon footprint and one fifth of the water pollution, primarily because of synthetic fibers, chemical dyes, and the manufacture of, although natural, cotton is equally polluting and water intensive. Pet washing also washes micro plastics from polyester and other synthetic fiber garments, which are made from petroleum products. Another factor is that textile use fossil fuels for power production and consumption in manufacturing processes and for transportation purposes.

2. Ethical Concerns

Fast fashion not only harms the environment, it is also related with exploiting labor. Most clothing are manufactured in sweatshops in developing countries where workers are paid little wages, work long hours in hazardous environment, and with no protection under labor laws. This has produced high cases of the exploitation of the workers such as the children and profiling of women as prostitutes.

Sustainable fashion, on the other hand, gives emphasis to workers’ rights andreme equations. Some brands, in their conscious efforts to be sustainable, source their products from fair trade organizations, or get artisans to produce them under decent working conditions, and fairly. Consumer Responsibility

The fashion industry therefore lies in the hands of consumers and ought to be modified by them. Just as with food choices, we also have an opportunity and a responsibility to consciously support sustainable fashion when buying our clothes and other accessories. Sustainable fashion makes people happy with what they are wearing most especially because they are aware that they are supporting products of their choice in the right manner. We don’t have to continue to participate in the ever-morphing system of creating a product, using it and then discarding it without regard to how this impacts people and their environment.

What is Sustainable fashion is a new category of clothing and accessories dubbed as ‘green’ or ‘eco-fashion,’ ‘fair trade’ fashion or ‘green ethics fashion.’ Sustainable fashion refers to controlling the utilization of natural resources in wearing appurtenances through the careful addition of the environmental elements of the fabric, condemnable uptake in the operations of the clothing industry, and the decrease in the production of frugivorous clothing. The principles of sustainable fashion are the following:

1. Eco-Friendly Materials

Sustainable fashion brands buy materials which are renewable, biodegradable or recyclable and have low impact on environment. They consist of organic cotton, hemp, and linen, and new-age fabrics such as bamboo, cork, and mycelium leather. However, many sustainable brands also incorporate recycled materials and are also using recycled polyester from plastic bottles or worn garments.

2. Ethical Production
It is important for any piece of fashion to be made solely for ethical reasons to include paying workers fair wages, providing reasonable working conditions, and displaying the true sources of the material used to make the fashionable item. Companies which are conscious of the ethical aspect of production may contract the workers and artisans who manufacture their products, and are therefore likely to pay fair.

3.Durability and Quality
Sustainability innovations mostly revolve around producing long-lasting, premium quality clothes that have the ability to last longer. While fast fashion brands create clothing that literally lasts for a few wears before fraying, ethical clothing brands create garments that will never go out of style and can be worn time and time again. The reasons is, this minimizes the extent of consumption required frequently and promotes what is known as the sustainable notion of fashion; the ‘Slow fashion’.

4. Waste Reduction
Sustainable fashion capacity is focused on reducing waste by methods such as, zero waste pattern cutting, recycling and rejuvenating old clothing. A good number of sustainable brands also offer a option of take-back programs that allow customers to return their old clothes for upcycling as well as to prevent garments from being tossed into the landfill.

5. Conscious Consumption

Sustainable fashion goes beyond the materialistic products they wear but, in fact, focuses on the manner they consume. This includes the act of purchase with less frequency, purchase with higher quality, and the act of selecting products which are more ideal than numerous ones. Instead of making fashion decisions based on trends that are here today and gone tomorrow, sustainable fashion enables consumers to buy and wear those clothes they adore So how does one build a sustainable wardrobe?

Creating a sustainable wardrobe is a long-term project though the first thing that needs to be done is to analyze personal wardrobe behavior. Here are some actionable steps to help you create a more sustainable closet:

1. Assess What You Already Own
Take a stock of your wardrobe and do not buy anything new without giving it a second thought. This will help you discover areas of need that the product can meet without you having to search blindly for products that you do not require. This means that if you wear what you already own as frequently as possible, you’ll be able to purchase much less. You also can even find clothing items that you used to wear but never came across for a long time and you can restyle them.

2. Choose Quality Over Quantity
Buying clothes therefore should not be done in large numbers but rather be done focusing on quality clothing. Make sure the article of clothing was made properly with a proper material and perfect seam. Such pieces will have a longer life span and are immune to the detioration. Buy items that are multi-seasonal and can easily be worn across the various trends of fashion and with other pieces of . Even when choosing a material, give preference to a sustainable one.

Choose natural fabrics that are as natural as possible or eco friendly fabrics like organic cotton, hemp, linen, Tencel, bamboo. As for fibers these materials are more sustainable than conventional cotton or synthetic fibers. If you are going to buy wool, make sure to buy only responsible wool, as seen from the Responsible Wool Standard (RWS). It will be also advisable to purchase chokers, belts, handbags, and bracelets of recycled leather, cork, or metals that have been recycled.

4. Support Ethical Brands

With the rise of conscious consumerism, it has become easy to find a handful of feminists who take pride in the fact that they purchase ethical plantation. Many have the audacity to announce how their values influence their production and some go to the extent of even explaining their supply chain’s basic level of detail. Certification seals, such as Fair Trade, GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard), B Corp, Cradle to Cradle and others, will assist you to know environmentally and ethically compliant brands and others.

Shop Secondhand and Vintage

Among the positive attributes of a sustainable wardrobe is aged or secondhand clothing. Almost new outwears are readily available in thrift shops, consignment stores and online re-sales such as Poshmark, ThredUP and Depop. Second-hand shopping helps to prolong the use of already made fabrics and lessens the need to produce new ones which in its own helps to lessen waste generation.

6. Embracing Upcycling and Repairing
With this approach, don’t throw your fatigued or overly used clothes away anymore. Think about redesigning or fixing them instead. Re-designing is changing the form of clothes into other uses for example a scarf made from jeans or a bag from an old jacket. Because those tattered old items are also special for you, enhancing or fixing those clothes, will give them a new purpose. Care for Your

Clothe.

If done right, the way you handle your garments will help you save on costs since you won’t have to keep on buying new ones since the old ones have worn out. Always adhere to the care labels, do your laundry in cold water and limit the number of times you tumble dry clothes. Where available, drying of clothes will be less damaging to the fibers and thus maintaining the quality of the fabric. You can also buy basket laundry bags to help minimize the releasing of microplastics into the environment.
7.Attention toward the Trend
All this aimless following of fashion trends can be quite entertaining; however, there are certain precautions that must be taken when it comes to this. It is the very same fast fashion that is responsible for our addiction to buying fresh pieces of clothing as each new trend is established even though this may result in extreme waste on the long run.

1. Patagonia

As an enviro nmental conscious company, Patagonia employs the use of recycledfabric, organic cotton and uses workers who have been certified through the Fair Trade. The brand is also committed to minimizing its environmental impact not only through promotion of the Worn Wear program targeting to make customer to buy used clothes and get to recycle their old products.

2. Reformation
Reformation is a reputable SSB that aims to provide wearable sustainable and trendy clothing with the use of sustainable resources. They incorporate upcycled fabrics, certified organic cotton in many pieces, and have selected sustainable low impact dyes. Transparency of Reformation about the firm’s effects on the environment is also present and the firm aims at reducing the amount of waste produced in. Everlane

Everlane is a fashion company that always provides information regarding production of their products to its customers. The company procures products such as organic cotton and recycled polyester and has tied up with factories that set the highest standards for employees’ treatment and environmental care.

4. Stella McCartney

An ambassador of sustainable luxury fashion, Stella McCartney had been promoting sustainable fashion long before becoming a mother. The brand incorporates organic cotton, sustainable wool, vegan leather, and discourages waste and has a low carbon impact.

5. Toms
Famous for its slip-on shoes Tom’s is also an environmentally friendly company. The brand incorporates sustainable resources in its footwear and accessories and include organic cotton and recycled polyester. Also, Toms has been involved in the appropriate conceptualization and practice of CSR through patronage of community causes and giving back through the One for One fashion, is not a fleeting phenomenon; it is changes people’s attitudes and behaviors and fosters respect for the earth and humanity. So, consumers involvement include choosing to buy from sustainable brands, choosing quality over quantity, and embracing second hand or vintage wears.

The idea of ‘green fashion’ can be best summed up where style quadruples as health. By choosing clothes styles that are in harmony