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Tag: Fair trade

  • How to buy clothing ethically

    How to buy clothing ethically

    How to buy clothing ethically I wrote in a previous post about why I stopped buying clothing in response to the conditions of my Nicaraguan friends who work in factories and the prevalence of slavery and exploitation in the clothing industry. The Norwegian documentary “Deadly Fashion” helps put things in perspective. After over a year…

  • Why I stopped buying clothing

    Why I stopped buying clothing

    One year and four months ago, I made the New Year’s resolution to stop buying clothes for a year. This decision came after several years of struggling with the idea of fair trade and ethically-sourced clothing. I’d heard the horror stories of child slaves in Bangladesh and Uzbekistan, but cognitive dissonance and cute sales at…