This article originally appeared on The Minimalist Wardrobe on December 8, 2018. The Minimalist Wardrobe is no longer publishing blog articles and has removed its prior blog content from its site, so I will be posting all my previous TMW contributions on Goblin Shark over the coming weeks. I like to call myself a wardrobe [...]
Category: Essays
How I’m Honoring Fashion Revolution Week | #WhoMadeMyClothes
Fashion Revolution Week is a humbling reminder amid the Spring launches and the sales and the pretty, shiny things, that the fashion industry still has big issues. On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134 people. Most of those people were female garment workers. The factory - which was built [...]
Financing Ethical Fashion: Is Afterpay Solving Problems or Creating Them?
Over the last year, some of the most popular ethical fashion brands have quietly implemented a new way to pay: Afterpay. Afterpay, as far as I understand it, is a new service that exists somewhere in the space between layaway and financing - instead of paying full price for an item at the time of [...]