Responsible Fashion
This page is your source for information about responsible fashion, discussing the environmental, social, and economic impacts of what you wear, and providing many recommendations for responsible purchases you can make.
This site is currently being built, with frequent updates. The web guide below is the most updated version. For a guide suitable for download, see the pdf version, updated 12/16/07.
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Lotus Live Eco-Fabric Guide
Before you go shopping for eco-effective clothing, you should read the:
Lotus Live Guide to Eco-Fabrics (6 pages).
This guide will give you a comprehensive overview of which fabrics are best and worst for your health and the environment, with explanations as to how each fabric is made.
Cut down on resource depletion and your ecological footprint by buying (or bartering for) used clothing
- Swango lets you give away your old clothing in return for credits which allow you to buy other users' items on the site.
Homemade Clothing
Learn to sew on the open-source sewing site, Burda Style.
For sourcing eco-fabrics, check out Treehugger's Mini-Directory of Green Fabrics.
Design Your Own Organic T-shirts
Planet Ink prints custom designs with vegetable ink on 100% organic cotton for less than $10 per shirt.
We Add Up organic cotton sweat-shop free t-shirts are not only green themselves, but advertise what green actions you are committed to doing, and feature a count of how many other people have committed to doing the same.- Adili: Extensive M/F collections.
- Bamboo Clothes: Affordable bamboo apparel.
- Bamboosa: Additional bamboo apparel.
- Bamboo Styles: Simple, but reasonably priced bamboo clothing (M/F).
- Beklina: Organic, sustainable, fair trade for women.
- Blue Canoe: Good selection of reasonably priced organics for M/F.
- BTC Elements: Fair trade organics for all.
- Coco's Shoppe: Eco-boutique for women.
- Envi: Organic cotton and more for F.
- Faerie's Dance: Earth-friendly fashion for F.
- Fresh Eggs: T-shirts and canvas bags with clever designs.
- GreenLoop: Veritable online department store of eco-apparel.
- The Hempest: Large collection of hemp clothing.
- Hip and Zen: Eco-fair trade for women.
- Horny Toad: Offers unique eco-apparel for men and women.
- IceBreaker: 100% merino wool warmth from New Zealand.
- Jonano: A variety of organic clothing for either gender.
- Modify: Wide array of eco-apparel for F.
- Natural High Lifestyle: Hemp and bamboo fashion.
- Nau: High performance clothing.
- Nubius Organics: Small selection of apparel and accessories for M/F and children.
- Patagonia: Classic eco-apparel.
- People Tree: British fair trade eco-clothing.
- Prana: Eco-friendly performance wear.
- Rawganique: Wide selection of hemp and organic cotton products for all.
- REI: "Eco-Sensitive" line uses innovative fiber mixes.
- Sahalie: Organic performance-wear for all.
- Same Underneath: Bamboo and organic cotton for him and her.
- Stewart Brown: Organic cotton and eco-fabric for women.
- Super Lucky Cat: One of a kind recycled fashions for F.
- Sweet Grass Fibers: Hemp, bamboo, organic cotton, tencel for M/F.
- The White Parrot: Eco-fashion of F, on the expensive side.
- Twice Shy: Organic cotton for M/F.
- Under the Canopy: Organics for women.
Guides to Eco-Fashion
Technical Reports about Clothing
Author: Nick Enge
Contributors:
General References: The Lazy Environmentalist, Planet Green. TreeHugger
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