A Small Step

What is Sustainable Fashion? Sustainable fashion (also known as eco-fashion) is a movement and process of fostering change to fashion products and the fashion system towards greater ecological integrity and social justice. Sustainable fashion concerns more than just addressing fashion textiles or products. It addresses the entire manner in which clothing is produced, who produces it, and how long the life span of a product is before it reaches the landfill. This sustainable movement combats the large carbon footprint that the fashion industry and fast fashion have created by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the environmental impact of fashion can combat air pollution, water pollution and overall climate change that could possibly prevent millions of premature deaths over the next century. Ethical fashion, a related term that is also prevalent in the conscious consumerism world, refers to clothing made in ways that value social welfare and worker rights. (Note: For vegans, e...

 What do we understand from recycling and upcycling? Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. Upcycling means reuse (discarded objects or material) in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original. How are these helpful for us and for the environment? Recycling is good for the environment; in a sense, we are using old and waste products that are of no use and then converting them back to the same new products . Since we are saving resources and are sending less trash to the landfills, it helps in reducing air and water pollution . During the time of pandemic, everyone was stuck at home, no where to go, so they started exploring with the DIY techniques, make came across with a very creative ideas, some even started selling their sustainable handmade products. Many were upcycling their old goods. Some example, how we can practice recycle and upcycle...

  We all have heard this term called natural dye, during the times of pandemic it was very much in trend. So what do we understand by this term natural dye? Natural dyes  are  dyes  or colorants derived from  plants ,  invertebrates , or  minerals . The majority of natural dyes are  vegetable dyes  from plant sources— roots ,  berries ,  bark ,  leaves , and  wood —and other biological sources such as  fungi . History of Natural Dyes The development of natural dyes took place at the same time after the technique of weaving had been discovered in about 5000 BC. In India, the use of natural dyes for dyeing, painting, and printing goes to the prehistoric periods. Ajanta paintings, dated as far back as the 1st century AD, were painted with natural dyes. Synthetic vs Natural dyes The difference between natural dyes and synthetic dyes is large that synthetic dyes are chemically manufactured whereas natural dyes are purely d...

 In my last blog, we talk about animal cruelty, how animals are slaughtered and tortured for their skin and fur. So in this blog, we are going to talk about the alternatives of leather, like Vegan Lether and Faux leather. Let's start from the beginning! What can we do to minimize animal slaughtering for their goods at our end? Buy second-hand or recycled leather. Go to your nearest vintage markets to find secondhand threads. Not only is vintage leather likely to be of higher quality than fast fashion leather products, buying secondhand is a great way to minimize your carbon footprint. Find ethical, sustainable vegan fashion labels for some eco-friendly alternatives. One of the alternatives is to buy vegan leather. We should also do our research before buying vegan leather as not all vegan leather is created equally, ‘pleather,’ (a type of vegan leather) is made from Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) plastic, which Greenpeace lists as one of the most environmentally-damaging plastics. Eco-fr...