Its great to see ethical fashion becoming mainstream with the focus on last night’s Dragon’s Den (29.4.21) being on an ethical fashion checker website. A lovely young couple with brilliant credentials (and about to become parents), were looking for investment in their ethical fashion product verification business. The idea (if we understood it properly) is...
Month: April 2021
That dress looks great on the model – but will it work for me?
We decided at the outset that Conscious Apparel would be all about real women wearing beautiful clothes that express who they are. Seeing clothing on women our customers can identify with helps them choose outfits and pieces that will work for them, especially when trying on clothes is hard in the pandemic. Our lovely models...
Please look out for fake websites!
Online business is booming and scammers are having a heyday in the Covid pandemic. We have already written about the bank direct payments scandal that sees people buying from social media and never getting the goods and services they paid for. Another scandal is fake websites. It is becoming increasingly common for fake websites to...
Tackling Ultra-Fast Fashion in a Pandemic – Bamboo Dressing Gowns Versus £7.00 Loungewear…
Fast fashion is getting faster, and the UK is the epicentre of textile consumption in Europe; we buy an estimated 26.7kg of clothing per capita every year. Synthetic fibres in clothing that have been produced from oil have doubled since 2000. If consumption continues at the current rate, the total carbon footprint of clothing by...
Tackling Ultra-Fast Fashion in a Pandemic – Bamboo Dressing Gowns Versus £7.00 Loungewear…
Fast fashion is getting faster, and the UK is the epicentre of textile consumption in Europe; we buy an estimated 26.7kg of clothing per capita every year. Synthetic fibres in clothing that have been produced from oil have doubled since 2000. If consumption continues at the current rate, the total carbon footprint of clothing by...