Clothing with values
Choosing to be environmentally aware and wanting to wear sustainable clothing is admirable. However, you can only make ethical choices if the information that you receive is reliable. And this is where the scourge of greenwashing muddies the waters. Our collective shift of focus towards safe-guarding the future of our planet is having a huge …
You’ve probably heard the term fast fashion, and if you love a High Street clothing bargain, you’re most likely encouraging it. But what exactly is fast fashion and why is it getting so much bad press? What is fast fashion? Fast fashion is when clothing manufacturers take a new design, copy it, make it and …
The uncomfortable truth about the clothes we wear is that the garment manufacturing processes used today by most brands include chemicals and harmful toxins to speed up the job and produce more even, defect-free clothing. Although the garments do undergo an intense washing and rinsing process before delivery onto your department store shelves, there may …
The EU has announced plans for a fast fashion crackdown. Why is this necessary? Did you know that as little as 1% of all the clothing produced across our planet is recycled? It’s a shockingly low percentage, but things get worse when you look closely at the textile industry. The quantity of fabric that each …
What is best for ethically-made and sustainable workout wear We only recommend activewear made from sustainable fabrics, including organic cotton and recycled PET, because these fabrics have minimised environmental impacts when compared with their conventional alternatives, which we think is pretty important. Organic cotton and recycled PET are quite different fabrics, and it’s important to …
ETHICAL CLOTHES FOR EVERYDAY WEAR We have recently received the news that Fairtees, one of our favourite Australian ethical clothing brands has closed. This is very sad news as Fairtees offered competively priced organic, fair trade clothing that was easy on the earth and easy on the eye. We suggest taking a look at Fair …
We hear a lot about environmentally-friendly manufacturing, Fair Trade principles and our responsibilities as ethical consumers. But what does Fair Trade clothing mean in practice? To ensure that your clothes are sweatshop-labour free and contributing toward improved labour conditions for textile and factory workers, we recommend suppliers that have partnered with the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF). The partnerships are …
Benefits Of Organic Cotton Organic Cotton: Why Bother? Say “cotton” out loud and images of pure, fresh, fluffy shirts and blankets come to mind. Unfortunately, that highly desirable picture has a sinister side to it. Most of the cotton being used by manufacturers and bought by consumers is the more harmful conventional cotton and not …
We, at Sustainable Clothing, have been big fans of Nukleus and the Nukleus story since reading about the company all the way back in 2012. In a world dominated by fast fashion, in particularly fast fashion dominated by multi-national brands, by global fashion houses and sustained by the billions spent in mass marketing, it was …