subject: Why Ethical Clothing Should Be Considered When Looking For The Latest In Fashion [print this page] Fashion is something that we all deal with every day in our world. Even people who dont believe that they are affecting by fashion get up and choose clothes every which can say a lot about them and the way that they are feeling that day. The latest styles and fashion on the market can be bought for much cheaper these days but you have to ask yourself how where they made and what materials were used. This is why some people only buy fair-trade clothing which is now available for much cheaper than in the past.
Fair-trade is all about the workers, both who sew the clothes and those who produce the raw materials. There are millions of cotton farmers working all over the world in many different countries. Fair-trade cotton ensures that the people who grow the cotton are paid a decent wage for what they do and that women and children are not exploited and taken advantage of in the harvesting of the cotton. This means that with the fashion items that you are buying, you can be sure that the people that played a part in the process of making them have been fairly treated. Big companies and online shops are now making their ethical clothing more fashionable and for this reason more and more people are shopping ethically.
Clothes through the world are made by workers that are traditionally paid the minimum wage and sometimes less and have to work long hours in poor conditions in order to produce these clothes that many of us take for granted. In developing world countries such as china and Indonesia there are workers mass producing clothes on a huge scale every day. This exploitation is something that regularly comes under fire by major fashion brands. They have been found to under pay staff and offer no additional benefits whilst they make themselves big profits. Ethical clothing guarantees that workers have not only been paid well but also have access to a range of benefits from maternity leave and pensions to healthcare and education.
There is so much goes on behind the production of clothes that people are not even aware of. If you knew that that new coat you were wearing was made by real people who have been exploited would you think twice about where you shopped in the future? People need to be made more aware and should look at shopping in ethical clothing stores.
