Wear Green Clique

29/11/2020

We’re basically throwing gasoline on a fire... but the fire is years and years of plastic and the gasoline is also plastic, and it’s not going away anytime soon/ever.

22/11/2020

**CREATIVE LICENSE DISCLAIMER**

-Crude oil is not technically from dinosaurs, it’s formed from the remains of dead organisms (diatoms) such as algae and zooplankton that existed millions of years ago in a marine environment, even before the dinosaurs were around.

-While the current number of fibres that leave your wash is thought to be 700,000 this study was conducted without the use of soap, a team that reviewed this study using soap concluded that this number could in fact be much higher.



The moral of this particular story is…

Polyester is destroying the environment in so many ways and recycled polyester isn’t here to save the world, so please be careful what you buy in polyester (and synthetics) and please, please own it responsibly.



What does owning polyester responsibly look like?

-Maybe buy a Guppyfriend bag https://en.guppyfriend.com to put your synthetics in to wash them

-There’s also things like The Cora Ball https://coraball.com

-Or if you can, look into the Planetcare Filter https://www.planetcare.org/en/ which can be fitted to your machine

Please let me know if you have any questions, but as always I’ll be following this up with more info shortly 💚✌🏻😘

14/11/2020

What you need to remember about polyester is...
It’s often a decision made to achieve a cheaper make price and higher units of garments...
whether or not that’s what’s actually best for the garment...
or for you...
or for the environment...🌎💚

08/11/2020

What can I say about acrylic?

Please try to avoid it...

04/11/2020

Sometimes fibres do need a little help to make a fully functional fabric...

Elastane lends its recovery to support fabrics for styles that need to be tight, and stay that way, but it’s just gonna hang about in our oceans and landfills

So as always... just be conscious when consuming ✌🏻💚

31/10/2020

*DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME* I'm setting fire to fabrics so you don't have to!

This is Part 4 of 4

What will burning fabrics teach us?
-That the origins of fibres have a huge effect on how they behave...
Which is important for knowing how they can work for you...
And against you.

There'll be some names you know and some you won't, but becoming familiar with fabrics and what they offer will help you to select the best fibres for your wearing comfort and the longevity of your garments
💚🌏💚🌍💚🌎💚

I'll be posting further properties of these fibres shortly 👀

28/10/2020

So this is my GREENWASHING ALERT – if a label is promoting the benefits (particularly sustainable ones) of bamboo, but they have no certifications or transparency to back it up… they are just posturing 😘💚

21/10/2020

I’m curious... have you heard of Tencel? Do you have any Tencel? We’re you aware of it’s properties? Do you like it?

17/10/2020

Viscose is like the old timer of the group, it has caused a lot of harm and it’s younger siblings are out performing it in every way... so what should you do if you reeeeeaaaaallllyyyy want 👉THAT viscose dress?... read through 👀👀

14/10/2020

*DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME* I'm setting fire to fabrics so you don't have to!

This is Part 3 of 4

What will burning fabrics teach us?
-That the origins of fibres have a huge effect on how they behave...
Which is important for knowing how they can work for you...
And against you.

There'll be some names you know and some you won't, but becoming familiar with fabrics and what they offer will help you to select the best fibres for your wearing comfort and the longevity of your garments
💚🌏💚🌍💚🌎💚

I'll be posting further properties of these fibres shortly 👀

10/10/2020

When I say h**p you think hippie right? Well they might be onto something, check out those properties! Clearly not given the recognition it deserves I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more of this fibre coming through 💚👀💚

**P **PPRODUCTS

07/10/2020

Are you sleeping on linen... when you should be sleeping in linen? 👀👀

Check out some of the properties of linen and tell me your life wouldn’t be better with it in it 🤣 a fabric so fantastic it was taken to the tomb with the Pharaohs!

04/10/2020

And here we are back at cotton!

One of the oldest fabrics made cotton has had a long eventful history, its versatility lead it to be the most popular fabric in the world!... until synthetics turned up on the scene. But when it comes to keeping you cool in the summer heat and warm when it gets chilly she your girl, just try to do it sustainably 😉💚

28/09/2020

*DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME* I'm setting fire to fabrics so you don't have to!

This is Part 2 of 4 - INTRODUCTION and NATURAL - CELLULOSE FIBRES

What will burning fabrics teach us?
-That the origins of fibres have a huge effect on how they behave...
Which is important for knowing how they can work for you...
And against you.

There'll be some names you know and some you won't, but becoming familiar with fabrics and what they offer will help you to select the best fibres for your wearing comfort and the longevity of your garments
💚🌏💚🌍💚🌎💚

I'll be posting further properties of these fibres shortly 👀

25/09/2020

Silk, she’s pretty... but with a 👊

Proving we might think we’re good, but Mother Nature will always have something over us

*If you suffer from allergies look into silk pillowcases 😘
**Also really good for your skin 😘😘
***Also really good for you hair 😘😘😘

# SILKDRESSINGGOWN

22/09/2020

Do you consider wool a 'frumpy' fabric?

Wool does seem to have gone out of fashion and particularly with cheaper synthetic options on the market... it's struggling to compete, which is a shame because the properties it offers!!!! 😱😱😱

20/09/2020

So we now know how burns, but what do it’s properties mean for you? And how can you buy leather in the most sustainable way?

What did you learn about leather?

What do you think of it?

18/09/2020

🔥DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME🔥 I'm setting fire to fabrics so you don't have to!

This is Part 1 of 4 - INTRODUCTION and NATURAL - PROTEIN FIBRES

What will burning fabrics teach us?
-That the origins of fibres have a huge effect on how they behave...
Which is important for knowing how they can work for you...
And against you.

There'll be some names you know and some you won't, but becoming familiar with fabrics and what they offer will help you to select the best fibres for your wearing comfort and the longevity of your garments
💚🌏💚🌍💚🌎💚

I'll be posting further properties of these fibres shortly 👀

04/09/2020

04/09/2020

Most fibres go through the same process, wool, linen, viscose even polyester and silk (once they have been cut into shorter fibres)

This factory is outside of Istanbul, Turkey is huuuuuge 60,000m2 (8.4 football fields) The process started at one end of the warehouse with the raw materials and finished at the other with cones and cones of yarn. It also has a laboratory that checks for quality and tests for improvements

The videos from the factory were taken over 2 years ago, sorry there’s not one of the spinning machines they are 😍😍 but I did the best I could with my 🙌🏻



Music: Mystic
Musician: Jeff Kaale

27/08/2020

TRANSPARENCY is something that is being talked about increasingly often in the industry, scandals like the BooHoo wages in Leicester and the revelation of the camps in Xinjiang have pointed out that companies who have maintain ed that they know who makes their items and that workers are paid fairly have now been caught out. Going forward it’s going to be important for brands to know we are watching them and that we want more ethical product.

But if you want to be making better choices now… I have added in some brands that use G.O.T.S. organic cotton 💚💚 .organic.apparel

23/08/2020

Here you can find a list of companies who have been found to be sourcing in the Xinjiang region, ~I have updated it with the responses of a few of the brands~

22/08/2020

Let’s unpack cotton... a notoriously dirty industry, that still survives on forced and slave labour, there are a number of certifications that’s are trying to fix this, and they each have their own focus area/s... while 20% of cotton is grown only about 1% is actually organic... so there’s a long way to go...

12/08/2020

So as I said I’m mainly going to focus on ~FIBERS~ for a while, but I was doing this anyway and though it was the perfect opportunity to show you what your T-Shirt looks like undone and made from scratch!

Consumers connect ‘pattern’ to print or textures on fabrics... in the industry ‘pattern’ refers to the shapes that make up the garment.

Pattern making is one of my favourite things to do, because it stretches your mind to build a 3D shape out of a 2D surface, you have to take into consideration the unique properties of your fabric and trims, how they are going to be sewn together and how they will effect each other. It can go from needing millimetre precision to complete and total freedom... or maybe I’m just getting too poetic... 💚😅💚



Music: Shave
Musician: Marco Lazovic
Site: https://icons8.com/music/

10/08/2020

Let me introduce you to your Cotton T-Shirt!
A lot of sustainability emphasis is put on the sewing up of garments, but if you thought that machinists get squeezed... imagine being earlier in the supply chain! 😰
That's why I want to start off by teaching you about different fibres and fabrics!

So we start it off with one I feel we'd all think we're familiar with Cotton! and to bring a new perspective... Organic Cotton!

*A creative licence or two was taken here*
-It's always good to check but... you're tampons are regulated and safe... but they also come in Organic 😉

-Wearing cotton is not going to make you sick, though there is the possibility you are absorbing the chemicals when you wear it. The bigger chemical issues are the run offs and workers using them with little to no training or equipment.

-'Cotton' in this video represents both:
'Conventional' - this is grown with natural seed but requires a lot of chemical regulations and also
'Genetically Modified' - which is a seed that has been engineered to require fewer pesticides...

The rest of these points I'll address in posts and stories ✌️

But to wrap up with the child labour element, an estimated 168 million children are engaged in child labour, more than half of them (85 million) in hazardous work. Over two-thirds (68 per cent) of children in child labour perform unpaid work alongside their parents or in family enterprises. Agriculture accounts for the majority of child labour, with 59% (or 98 million) between 5-17 years working in this sector. [ICO Child Labour in Cotton Briefing] Then you need to include the spinning mills where the fibre is made into yarn and fabric (one of the more popular sectors for child labour in the supply chain) and of course the factories where they are made into garments... and the fact that the fashion industry is the most labour intensive industry in the world... so yeah at least a few million...

I would like to thank my amazing friends for bringing my weird and wild vision to life 🤣
Cotton -
Organic Cotton -

04/07/2020

The wording around this is a little strange right…? 😅 Yeah well as you can imagine, slavery is a topic most companies are not terribly honest about… so the Government put together a little ‘Modern Slavery Act’ 🥳 HUZZAH!🎉 Not huzzah😪...

To be required to report companies have to have a turn over of more than 36million a year… 😒
The government said they would name and shame them but only half of the required companies actually make a report… 🧐
And then the government doesn’t actually require that they do anything about it, it merely asks them to note that it may or may not be present… 🤨
They only even managed to get around to this in 2015 btw 🥴

Now if you want to take this a step further and particularly in light of 🦠 I do… even when these companies are paying workers to make your clothes (and I genuinely mean any clothes here) from Bangladesh to Leicester garment workers are not always making a ‘living wage’ in Bangladesh not earning a living wage means despite working 16hr days 6-7 days a week… 😤 Families live month to month with very little job security even before covid… 😔 Once factories had to shut and our retailers cancelled $3.7billon worth of orders... 😡 Meaning hundreds of thousands of workers are now jobless with no savings, during a pandemic, where social distancing is an impossibility... 😖

But even if you look at your ‘Made In England’ dress an think ‘ohhhh quality’... for workers in Leicester £5 and hour is ‘a really good price’... 😐 And their factories drive to compete with offshore labour has meant that they have been the epicentres for 5 of the Covid outbreaks in the city... 🤔

29/06/2020

I know well the ~Cognitive Dis*Comfort~ that finding out new information about the fashion industry can bring up... and how insurmountable it can feel especially if you're constrained by your budget... but, the reality is that at any budget its difficult! because this crazy capitalist world we live in means every buying decision posses a new ethical question 💚🤔💚

Which is why I'm not expecting you to say
'THAT'S IT! TODAYS THE DAY! I MUST CHANGE EVERYTHING!'
🤯 you'll stress yourself out all at once! 🤯

I'm going to take you through the fashion industry step by step to build the connection between you and your clothes that's been deliberately removed from you. So you can understand WHAT the problems are and HOW you can help be a part of
💚THE SOLUTION💚
..COGNITIVE DISSONANCE...
Our brains are naturally lazy...
So when we are presented with a new idea, that contradicts an idea we already have, it can take time for us to get fed up with the nagging discomfort in the pit of our stomach and decide to amend the behaviour... BUT...
It 🤗feels🤗 a lot better when we do 😘

I'll be delving into some of those facts in posts and stories throughout the week ooooorrrrr... follow the *LINK IN BIO* to read them on the NOTES page at the Wear Green Clique Website now!

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28/05/2020