I can’t quite believe I’m typing this seeing as it’s still somewhere around May in my brain, but it’s nearly Christmas. Mariah Carey is watching her bank balance gain multiple extra zeroes at an exponential rate as we all try and…
Second hand
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Last January, I wrote a post about my struggle to decide whether or not to buy second hand animal products as a vegan. I was torn about whether or not I felt I could morally and ethically buy second hand…
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Well, here we are again. I’m sitting here in my office which is cooking me from the outside in, waiting to see if my landlord feels like turning up with some viewers or not. Who knows? They’re a lot of…
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I expect, after clicking on this post, you’re expecting a comprehensive list of all things sustainable fashion. And you might well get that but, the thing is, I don’t really know. I mean, it sounds like a great idea; I’d…
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Earlier this year I had a dilemma; should I buy second hand animal products like wool and leather or should I keep my wardrobe completely animal-product free? Serendipity was putting in double shifts when Carli Vergamini, the founder of CRAVE,…
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I’m going to be completely honest, the aim of this post is to dump a host of diverging opinions into your lap and then have you tell me what my stance is. Because I can’t figure it out for myself.…
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So, we know that ethical fashion can be expensive. And we also know that in humanitarian and environmental terms, those higher prices are worth every penny. If you can buy solely from ethical and sustainable brands, well done, full points,…
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A stand-out vintage find comes complete with a side order of bragging rights. A simple ‘oh, this? It’s vintage”, can dash the hopes of would-be copycats and elevate you to the status of fashion polymath. Yeah, you know your decades.…
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Whenever I read major fashion blogs (which isn’t very often thinking about it), I’m plagued by one major question: “just how much fucking money do you have, woman?”. Of course, big name bloggers get plenty of freebies thrown their way…
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On the 25th March of this year, I declared, ‘no more shopping for three months!‘. I felt guilty and stressed and tired of the seemingly eternal search for that magical item that would ‘complete’ my wardrobe. I was shopped out…