#ethical fashion

[mayakern]

hi, y'all! we have some new preorder items (including our new organic cotton button-up shirts!) dropping on april 25th at noon eastern ✨

this launch will include the funeral button-up shirt, funeral button-up dress, and our new picnic crop top.

preorders will last through may 12th!

you can find more information on all of the preorder items on my blog!

#plus size fashion #button up shirts #button up dresses #ethical fashion #inclusive fashion #store

[lockerandom]

You know, with Shein, Alibaba and Temu being so popular, I was thinking that maybe we could make a list of some ethical and sustainable clothing brands. These will be more expensive, but if you buy from them you'll be helping someone anytime you make a purchase. Please list all the ones you know in a reply.

Pact Clothing sizes up to 2X. Sells men, women, and children's clothing. Items are sustainably made and Fair Trade.

Midnight Hour Sizes up to 4X with a few 5X items. Cute goth and alternative clothing. Items are sustainably and ethically made.

Able Sustainably and ethically made women's clothing. Sizes up to 3X.

Svaha Own by an Indian woman. Very cute science themed clothing for men, women, and kids. Clothing is mostly made in India and is ethically sourced. Sizes go up to 5XL

Proclaim ethically sourced bras and underwear and basics that comes in three shades of "nude". Sizes S to 3XL

Toad&Co Clothing inspired by nature. sizes S to 2XL.

Raven and Lily Supports female artisans creating handmade jewelry, bags, and homewares. Empowers communities through fair wages.

Altar Specializes in alternative and custom fashion. Sizes S to 6XL.

EDIT: I did not expect the to blow up! I want to find all the suggestions in the reblog and add them to the OP. I'm a bit swamped with work this week though. I may make a whole new post later. In the mean time, please check the notes for some other excellent suggestions! Some are here on tumblr! Shout out to

@freshhotflavors @morningwitchy @crowlines @mayakern

@mayakern has posted images of her clothes in the notes and they are all very cute!

I want to stress that you can't do everything. This post isn't here to judge anyone who needs new clothes but can't afford an ethical brand. I once had my apartment flood (basement unit!) where the ceiling fell in the bedroom and had to replace everything! Clothing that fit me is hard to find and I think I bought everything from Walmart. This is just for some suggestions and to advertise these other brands.

#shein #temu #alibaba #fast fashion #ethical fashion #slow fashion #sustainable fashion

[reasonsforhope]

"Shopping for clothes is already intimidating. There are so many options and styles to consider, as well as factors like sustainability and ethics.

But for people in fat, disabled, or queer and gender-nonconforming bodies, it’s even more arduous.

Nico Herzetty, Emma K. Clark, and Paul Herzetty wondered: What if there was a way people could shop — not necessarily by color or size — but by measurements, materials, and ethics?

So they set off to create their website: Phoria. 

Here, shoppers can set up a free profile, add their body measurements (and “typical fit challenges”) and peruse over 270 brands. Once these data points are entered, users can personalize their pages with “saved,” “recommended,” or “hidden” brands. 

Pages can be totally private, or shared with the community to connect over styles and brands.

Aside from fit, brands in the Phoria database (which claims to be “the largest database of plus-friendly brands”) can also be filtered as “gender-neutral,” “woman-run,” “small business,” or “natural fibers.” Users can also filter for price, preferred styles, and more.

Pictured: A screenshot of the "Fit Challenges" feature on a Phoria user's profile.

Some brands include popular names like Athleta, Levi’s, and Patagonia. Others are small businesses, like Beefcake Swimwear, or Hey Peach.

“For so many people, it feels too damn hard to find and keep clothing that fits in all the ways that really matter. So we’re doing something about it,” the Phoria website reads.

“Unlike most online shopping experiences, we center the needs of plus-size women, nonbinary, and trans people, and prioritize supporting clothing brands focused on sustainability, ethics, and inclusion.” ...

That team — made up of Clark, and Nico and Paul Herzetty — calls themselves “fat, disabled, and very, very queer.” 

“These are some of the main ways we identify, and they’re qualities that have directly impacted our ability to get dressed every day in a way that feels good,” the Phoria team introduces themselves on the website.

Pictured: A screenshot of Phoria's plus-size clothing brand database.

In addition to catering the user experience to women, non-binary, and trans people, Phoria is also a benefit corporation, or a B corp.

“We’ve legally required ourselves to consider the interests of all our stakeholders — customers, employees, the planet, and our shareholders,” the Phoria website explains.

“Our specific public benefit purpose is to reduce people’s dependence on buying mass-produced items made in unsustainable ways and to use human-centered business models to boldly challenge economic systems of inequity.” 

Right now, in the early stages of the company’s business, it doesn’t make any money.

“We’re focused on building something that genuinely solves plus-size people’s challenges around clothes shopping and supports smaller and more sustainable brands,” Phoria’s website states.

So, spreading the word seems to be of utmost importance...

Additionally, TikTok creators @couplagoofs (a queer couple named Morgan and Phoebe), recently shared a video in which they discovered Phoria. They met the website’s creators at a fat liberation event in their city and were introduced to the tool.

Quickly, commenters responded with gratitude and excitement.

“It is so disappointing to sort through pages of plus size clothes that aren’t even plus size,” a TikTok user commented. “This is gonna be such a good tool!” 

Some even shared emotional responses, speaking to the need at the heart of Phoria’s mission. 

“I’m… gonna cry,” another commenter wrote. “I’ve needed this my whole life.”"

-via Goodgoodgood, November 20, 2023

#clothing #plus size #size inclusive fashion #body positive #fashion #slow fashion #style #gender affirming #trans inclusive #gender euphoria #disabled #lgbtq #gender nonconforming #small business #ethical fashion #ethical business #fatshion #fat positive #body positvity

[cozypunkprints]

Beating Shein

In price, quality, and spiritually, with a tire iron

Here are some crappy Shein jeans and their prices.

Here are my newest visibly mended jeans

Here’s what they cost to make

LL Bean flannel lined jeans: $3.00, half off at goodwill (I know, lucky find)

Denim Patches: $0.00 taken from a much loved and mended pair of jeans that finally gave up the ghost after many years of loyal service.

Flannel patch to mend a hole in the lining: $0.00 from a lot of free scrap fabric my mom found for me in a buy nothing group.

Sewing supplies: $0.00 inherited/stolen from various female family members

Total: $3.00

Beating shein at:

Cheapness

Quality

Appearance (in my opinion)

Probably comfort

Not doing slavery :)

There’s a narrative that sustainable or ethical fashion is more expensive, and often this is true. But there are affordable ways to have a cool sustainable wardrobe.

To leave you: here are some process shots of how the mending was done, in case it helps someone else.

#i might make this a series #beating shein #shein #fast fashion #solarpunk #diy fashion #slow fashion #punk #visible mending #mending #androgynous #androgynous fashion #sustainable fashion #ethical fashion #artists on tumblr #anti capitalism #hopepunk #hopecore #ecofashion

[thefatfemme]

Finally got to wear my new @mayakern skirt! I love the daintily morbid vibe so I tried to lean into a sort of cottage-goth aesthetic, and I'm really pleased with the result 🥰

#thefatfemme #Fatshion #fat fashion #plus size fashion #ethical fashion #Maya Kern #cottagecore #goth aesthetic #cottage goth #cottagecore aesthetic #body positivity #fat acceptance #fat positivity #fat joy

[high-cloud]

Enchanted Objects" by Hanne Zaruma

High-Cloud

#alternative fashion #independent designer #weirdcore #sustainable fashion #alt fashion #dreamcore #jfashion #upcycled fashion #upcycle #weird fashion #nonbinary fashion #art fashion #cyber y2k #cyberpunk #cybercore #cyber fashion #designer #ethical fashion #fashion #fashion student #street fashion #surreal art #harajuku fashion

[jay-wasreblogging]

Pronoun pins by Rising Violet Press

#she/her #he/him #they/she #they/he #she/they #he/they #they/them #they/she/he #he/she #pronouns #enby #nonbinary #gender fluid #gender queer #lgbt owned business #queer owned business #pins #brooches #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #ethical fashion #small business #genderqueer #genderfluid #multigender #gender nonconforming #bigender #transgender

[curiousfancy]

After many moons, here I am again sunflowers in tow 🌻 Also got stung by a bee while taking these photos and I feel so bad for the bee 😭

#curious fancy #my posts #plus size #cottagecore #poc fashion #honeycore #farmcore #warmcore #late summer #yellow aesthetic #ethical fashion #sunflowers

[c-reaturesque]

1of1 bag for new drop coming 27th November 🗝

#independent designer #alternative fashion #jfashion #weirdcore #cybercore #harajuku fashion #kawaii fashion #gothic lolita #egl fashion #ethical fashion #gothic fashion #slow fashion #surreal art #lolita fashion #coquette #dollcore #designer #fawn #cutecore #gothic #ethel cain

[intersectionalpraxis]

They’re also a Sudanese-owned business 🥰 #KeepEyesOnSudan #LiberateSudan [@/ Kandakat_alhaqq on X. 01/06/24.]

Support Sudan and buy from them, they donate 100% of their proceeds to Sudan

First donations batch received. ✔️

To order: Elrayah Apparel [@/ mazinb_ on X.]

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free sudan #liberate sudan #keep eyes on sudan #sudan #eyes on sudan #local business #support local #support local businesses #instagram #ethical fashion #sudanese #donations

[mayakern]

preorders are live now!! ✨

this launch includes our new organic cotton button-ups in our funeral design, our button-up dress in our funeral design, and the picnic crop top in both white and black colors.

preorders will be open until may 12th!

you can get these on my store!

#plus size fashion #ethical fashion #inclusive fashion #organic cotton clothing #small business #store

[deramin2]

All Clothes Are Handmade

As a sewist with access to a lot of fancy commercial-grade equipment, I think about this a lot. People have this idea that there's a lot of automation in making clothes, that robots do most of the work. They do not. Very low-wage humans do.

The machines can make fancy stitches, but they can't guide them. Cloth takes fine dexterity and constant adjustments to work with. Any sewist who's tried to sew a straight line but had their thoughts stray know how fast it goes tits up. The 2+ pieces need to be carefully pinned together (expert sewists can use very few pins, but still need some), and then carefully guided and managed so they stay exactly together as the same tension without wrinkles. And if there's any kind of curve, it takes great skill to do all of that while turning at precisely the right angle at the right time while keeping everything together. And then a human has to detect the end and change the stitch appropriately to secure the ends.

And then there's fabric management. A the front the fabric bunches in your lap and tries to fall down at weird angles. At the back in bunches up and tries to pull at weird angles. So you're constantly having to manage where all that fabric is going that you aren't currently sewing. And if you're sewing in the round (like putting on a sleeve), you have to manage bringing the back around to the front. All of this twists the entire garment, which has to be managed even when most of it is sitting next to you. In home sewing this is sometimes a 2-person job.

A machine cannot do any of that that. Automating clothing manufacturing is a holy grail people have been working on for a couple hundred years and are nowhere close to achieving. It takes the kind of very precise and constant adjustment with a sharp mind and keen eye that humans are very good at and machines are very bad at. Machines only sew in straight lines.

But people look at fast fashion prices and assume robots must be making their clothes. But they aren't. Highly skilled human beings in horrific work conditions at breakneck speed and brutal hours are being paid pennies to make even the cheapest and most low-quality garment. The entire commercial and consumer chain has simply dehumanized them into "must be robots."

This red swimsuit is selling for $10.99 from Walmart. It probably cost $2-$3 to produce.

This striped swimsuit is selling for Beefcake Swimwear for $99. This is the fair price for a swimsuit made with ethical labor.

Beefcake is a small Portland, Oregon company that uses local labor, local materials, and doesn't have a high markup. They cost $49 to manufacture (maybe more now with inflation). (With business expenses, trust me that margin is really slim.) Beefcake talks about "The real cost of American-made swimwear." Half the cost to produce is labor costs. I'd wager half the cost of the fabric is also labor costs. This is why clothing isn't typically made in the US, except using prison labor that's pretty literally slavery.

This is the true cost of a product that attempts to not exploit its workers. It's a luxury most people can't afford because the entire labor market exploits workers to the point of being unable to afford anything but exploitative goods and services. Fast fashion has convinced people they greatly benefit from supporting the worst of that exploitation.

These swimsuits were made on similar machines with similar materials by people with similar skill. The same degree of automation went into both of them. But the Walmart manufacturer sewists got paid less than a dollar to make that one and live in abject poverty, and the Beefcake sewists got paid $22, which is livable.

But robots didn't make either of these. human hands did. Human hands made every single piece of clothing in your closet. Think of how to cherish and care for their work.

#fashion #ethical fashion #fast fashion #sewing #Beefcake Swimwear #labor rights #my posts

[hopelesslingerie]

Hopeless

#handmade #handmade lingerie #ethical lingerie #made in australia #made in melbourne #handmade with love #mesh lingerie #ethical fashion

[gothcroissant]

Can you believe? ethical fashion is in! your! reach!

#slow fashion #ethical fashion #fast fashion #solarpunk #sustainability #Youtube

[chubbymuffinclub]

connallygoods

#fashion #ethical fashion #fat fashion #plus size #Connally Goods #size inclusive

[veganymph]

btw if any of you are curious on how ethical s clothing brand is i really recommend the good on you app! it gives you ratings on how ethical/unethical something is and why/why not

#my post #vegan #veganism #ethical fashion #sustainable fashion #sustainability