Now I’m not blind to see that my fanaticism for clothes is not without a price. Whilst I may not have put myself in debt, I realize that if I’m not more responsible with my choice of clothings, I don’t just hurt the environment, I end up hurting a lot of lives.
Now often we’re all aware about how important it is to source clothes that are eco-friendly – where the entire process of their make from raw material up to delivery to the shelves of stores has the least impact on nature. But we often get lost in that forgetting about how it’s equally important for our clothes to also be from a fair trade source!
Ever so often we’re more than pleased with ourselves when we find a good bargain. Beautiful garments that say organic cotton and cost us at a fantastic markdown price of a meager $5 or even $10 give us a high, but logically you’ve got to ask yourself how is it possible for them to sell it at such a low price? Clearly they aren’t selling it at a lost so if they can plummet the prices to such a low, someone out there in the supply chain must be taking the cut.
It takes so much effort to grow organics and nothing less to painstakingly put it altogether by hand to make your perfect embroidered dress or t-shirt. Yet you’ll find that many are exploited by large corporations to enable the sale of a $10 t-shirt one with a hefty profit margin. I won’t go into the details of which company is involved in the exploitation and which are the poor labourers of the trade being abused but I must insist you read this news article that can tell you all that.
Sustainable living is about a lifestyle that harms the least lives. It’s not all just about buying green, it’s also about buying fair trade green.
