Organic Clothing

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I was wondering if anyone could give me any information about organically made
clothing that I could use in an article for the University at Albany
E-Zine. I have a few questions if people could answer them it would be greatly
appreciated.

How is organic clothing better on the environment?

I have found that not many people have heard about organic clothing and
where they can purchase, what are some suggetions to help spread the word
about it?

Thanks!



athena
Re: Organic Clothing

I have a leather jacket and my wife has a fur coat that got put into the closet when Bridget Bardot took over the seal hunt.  Thanks for the memory jog.  Furs are definitely an environmentally sustainable product that encourages conservation of wild animals and provides employment for a segment of the population.



ctyankee
Re: Organic Clothing

That'll earn ya a spot on the PETA hate mail list... ;^) 



mbrdrck27
Re: Organic Clothing

I know I've seen American Apparel has an organic clothing line. You can probably find out more on their website americanapparel.net



Erin M
Re: Organic Clothing

We don't think about our skin being a way in which chemicals and other junk can get into our bodies, but it's highly absorbant and very sensitive to what we put on it.

Conventional cotton is one of the most heavily sprayed products in the world. It attracts several different kinds of parasites and other pesky little bugs, so farmers have to use pretty strong pesticides to keep them away.

Also, our white and pristine cotton doesn't come that way naturally. It goes through all kinds of chemical processes lile bleaching and dying, so from our bedsheets to our t-shirts those chemicals spend a lot of time against our skin.

Not only is it harmful to our bodies, but it's also harmful to the environment. All of those chemicals eventually run off into the soil which in turn gets redistributed in other places and the cycle continues.

I hope this helps. ;]

Erin

TheNakedHippie.com

Organic T-shirts

 



athena
Re: Organic Clothing

A long time ago people grew hemp in their back gardens, produced the fiber and cloth in their kitchens and made their own clothing.  Back then the SS Constitution had hemp sails, the sailors had hemp uniforms, wrote on hemp paper and burned hemp oil in their lamps.

Then Dupont needed to sell his plastic shirts and Rockafella had coal oil to sell so we had to ban hemp as a drug.



athena
Re: Organic Clothing

I've seen ads for edible underwear and 30 years ago the Canadian military had winter jackets with edible buttons.  They also had edible candles - tasted like candles, burnt like food.  Anything you can eat is probably not too hard on the environment.



ctyankee
Re: Organic Clothing

:^)



ctyankee
Re: Organic Clothing

Levi's blue denim??? No?

Or are you looking for 'over the top' organic (capital "O") because then you'd have to omit anything made on a sewing machine...

Just curious.