Friday, January 10, 2014

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Favourite Local Fashion-y Finds

Hello New Year readers!  I am VERY glad. I like to see the empty year stretching out in front of me as you only can at this time of year! I have a few things in my calendar already, but I can kind of kid myself that it's free sailing at this point. Do you feel like that too? Anyhoo, you might already know that I'm writing about ethical fashion every Thursday on this very blog. It's part of A Year Of Ethical Fashion (#YOEF). I'm talking...
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A Year Of Ethical Fashion

sign up here! Here's the Year of Ethical Fashion (#YOEF) pledge for 2014… 2015! If I'm looking for things to wear I will only: a) Buy from ethical makers or b) Buy second-hand or c) Make it myself  or d) Wear things I already own or e) Borrow or swap garments with friends Sounds pretty doable, right? Maybe you can take the pledge too?! For a year? Or longer, even?...
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Australian Ethical Fashion To Put On Yourself

I was looking through Reuters most powerful images of 201. There's a lot of disturbing content there, truth be told, but the one that I keep thinking about involved the Bangladeshi garment factory collapse. I won't go into details but you can see it here, if you would like to. Over 1000 people died and despite being a $10 billion industry, conditions for workers are deadly. Because I have been thinking about this a lot, I realised that  I...
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