ethical fashion

>>12436565
Where does your second hand clothing come from? Who sorts it?

>>12436567
charity shops, ebay and vintage clothing shops, in order of cheapest to most expensive

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>Why aren't you all solely buying clothes second hand?

Because i am not a poorfag.

>>12436565
I am. Or I have for some years.
Thrifting taught me a lot about quality and materials.
Recently I started buying second hand milsurp almost exclusively and then, after about five years of second hand shopping threw out all my cotton socks, underwear, t-shirts and sweaters in favour of a small merino wool warddrobe which I don't have to wash as often (which seems pretty ethical to me). Also, made in Europe. Supporting European companies.

I'll still have to find a good local milsurp store though as international shipping is still pretty unethical, even if the clothes themselves are second hand.

>>12436580
there are other benefits apart from the cost, plus you can still find a lot of incredibly expensive second hand/vintage clothing

>>12436572
I tried to say: where does your vintage clothing shops get their clothing from?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/17/are-vintage-clothes-more-ethical

>>12436585

I am sure you enjoy wearing your grandmas ye olde pantaloons, but keep it to yourself.

>>12436588
that's shitty but I guess money hungry people are going to latch on to and commercialise anything.

I don't know the specifics of the sourcing of every place I buy from and poor working conditions in sorting factories is obviously bad and needs changing but you can't condemn the entire idea of recycling clothing from it, which even with sorting factories would still be having a good environmental impact

>>12436589
Not him but you missed the point of the thread.

>>12436601
No, I didn't want to condemn recycling. I do it too, in addition to tailoring and sewing. You should be aware of the problems behind your clothes, brand new and secondhand, and there will be a difference between what you find in your moms closet and what you find at the Epsiode (I swear every vintage shop stocks the same stuff).

https://sociallifeof2ndhandclothes.com/2013/03/24/the-ethics-of-vintage/
http://vestoj.com/pants-for-the-cost-of-a-postage-stamp/
https://newrepublic.com/article/122564/inside-massive-rag-yards-wring-money-out-your-old-clothes

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make the change lads

>>12436565
Because I don't really care all that much about slave labor.

>>12436759
what about the environment and money?

???

All the second hand shops here only have old man clothing, which wouldn't be necessarily be bad if it wasn't for the fact that it's basically all L and XL fat people clothing.

And buying second hand online sucks because you can't send it back if you don't like it.