Twenty years ago, I started trying to “wear what I stand for." Back then, my shopping outlets were the random craft fair or “green festival,” the only places I could easily find sustainable clothes. I still own the items I acquired during those early fashion forays: a soft sweater woven from hemp and dyed with natural henna, shoes soled with rubber recycled from car tires, socks and underwear made from bamboo.
Browsing the stalls of one crafter, I donned a luxurious sweater coat being sold by a woman who sustainably raised and humanely sheared sheep and milled their wool. Though pricey for me at the time, I forked over $350 on the spot. There was no place else to get an earth- and animal-friendly coat like that.
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