In the past few decades, the fashion cycle has accelerated, price tags have plummeted, and shoppers have adapted: We’ve learned to buy more clothes and value them less.
Spring cleaning may inspire you to load a bag full of old clothes to Goodwill, but what about cleaning up your cheap clothing habit instead?
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Ethical Style: Fashion Advice for the Socially Conscious
Welcome to the thorny landscape of “ethical,” “sustainable,” “eco-friendly,” and “organic”-branded companies. What is ethical fashion, really? The truth is, even industry leaders don’t know. Ethical terminology is highly marketable, but it’s hardly illuminating. With our new “Ethical Style” column, writer Tabea Kay will tackle your fashion queries.
Ethical Style: How Is My T-Shirt Made?
Your T-shirt can be made any number of ways, but more likely than not, it isn’t made here. Ethical Style takes us through the T-shirt’s journey through the fashion supply chain.
Ethical Style: Why Fashion Needs to Get Political
As the ethical fashion world has grown to tackle more problems and reach more markets—and socially conscious fashion becomes imperceptible from other clothing on the rack—the movement’s political underpinnings have decentralized. Discussion of ethical fashion has exploded in recent years, but without the clarity of a “Save the Whales” tee, we’re not totally sure what we’re aware of anymore. Fashion needs a rebirth of the political spirit—a serious consumer-focused movement to help us navigate the trends.
Ethical Style: Don’t Donate Clothes, Repurpose Them
Quality clothing means better fabric, and good fabric can be reworked again and again to make sure it never goes out of style. Today, we want an ever-changing array of cheap clothes, and we rarely think about sustainability or quality. In order to consume clothes more ethically, we must change the way we think about them.
Ethical fashion requires making new styles out of metaphorical rags (even if they’re just last season’s jeggings), whether from your closet, thrift stores, consignment shops, or online outlets.
Don’t let your dirty laundry be a dirty environmental habit. A single load in the washing machine can use up to 40 gallons of water. You can’t stop washing your clothes altogether (this is, after all, spring cleaning month), but you can follow a few tips to save water, choose greener products, or even go low-tech.
Spring Cleaning: Hang Up Your Laundry Habits
From today’s spring cleaning challenge, here’s an easy way of fighting a smelly fridge: To get rid of an odor in your fruit or vegetable drawers, crumple up a brown bag and place it in the drawer for a couple of days. Smells should be absorbed by the paper.
Have you gone through your stash lately? Is that bottle of sunscreen celebrating its fifth birthday? Can’t find the bandaids?
Spring cleaning ideas for nursing your messy medicine cabinet back to health.
It’s Monday, and it’s also our last day of spring cleaning. We leave you with tips for your coffee break.
It’s convenient to think of the trash can as a black hole into which scraps and discards and mistakes disappear. But these cities, some of the greenest cities in the world, know better. Producing more trash means wasting more money and using up more resources that could be put to better use.
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