WEEK 4: CAN I DO BETTER?

Honestly, Can I?

As a fashion student, the more you learn about the fashion industry, the more disappointed you are.

Because now you know everything yet you know nothing about what goes in those sweathshops that exist till date.

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Recently, shopping with my friends at Eastland Mall, I realised how cheap the clothes were!

A 2$ Tank Top?

Who made it? Were they paid fairly?

Its sad that most people making fast fashion are deprived of their basic right of fair wages!

Although as a student, it’s extremely difficult to afford clothes from a place involved in fair trade and providing sustainable, and organic options so what I have done now is made a decision to stop right now and acknowledge what I have at the present moment.

Due to this, I ended up buying nothing at Eastland Mall because now I feel like I have a huge pile of clothes that are inactive and worn just once or twice so I am educating myself to style those clothes in different ways and halt the “discarding behavior”. 

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At this moment, I have been immersed in research related to Furs used in

Luxury Fashion.

Coming to know about many things like the usage of mink furs, fox furs, and racoon furs to make clothes has been a part of our society for long and other than that buffalos horns in making buttons and lambskin in making coats has left me shocked.

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As a vegetarian, my whole life, I have tried to live a life without harming animals, but I wouldn’t take it as something I am proud of because, I was born this way my family didn’t consume meat, so it was easy for me to continue a plant-based diet.

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But for the fashion Industry, we all can put effort because, 

It goes to the core of how we can

“Reduce”

The consumption

The waste, and 

The harm, The killing

And Especially The Exploitation!

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To create a better environment for our future generations we can stop buying cruel fashion.

To begin with we all can start by:

• Researching on the garment that we intend to purchase, 
  • Checking what fabrics were used to manufacture the garment.
  • Saying no to brands doing animal abuse to create garments.

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At the end, here’s a picture of me and my bestie from this week at Eastland Mall!

Next week, I will start talking about my shopping sabbatical because we are finally starting that journey and I hope I could do better for the world and to the world.

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Until then keep loving “Slow Fashion”

I will see you in the next one!