Trying to find places to purchase clothing and shoes that are made with the wellbeing of the workers and the environment and are of exceptional quality is extremely challenging. Yes, I have found several places to purchase clothes. It seems searching for Fair Trade has been very helpful. I'm working on creating a list of things to buy once I loose some more weight. But, my plan of buying all new clothes that are ethically sourced might not happen. There may be a few things that I'll be backed into a corner on...such as tennis shoes. It's frustrating! But I'm not loosing hope. It's still early and I might come across more sources for some things that I will be needing.. However, I didn't really think it would be THAT hard. Further I have found that even if it's made in the USA it doesn't mean the workers are treated fairly. I find the situation very difficult to understand. How did we loose our clothing and shoe manufacturing base so quickly? I know it's trade deals and agreements that were lapsed but I can't believe that we are so fickle that we turned our back the workers and on quality products so quickly. It's GREED people. Not just the clothing labels. Consumers have been greedy too.
Soon I will be posting a review of the documentary The True Cost and the book Over-Dressed the Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion.
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