How To Build A Sustainable Wardrobe Background

To create a sustainable and healthy wardrobe, you can stop consuming fashion with textile pollutants that are harmful to our health and the environment, limit access to brands that ignore sustainability or that exploit animals or workers.

Avoid toxins in clothes: they pass into the bloodstream

Not all fabrics that are called sustainable because they are obtained from recycling are free of synthetic fibers derived from petroleum, therefore not all are ecological or natural.

Remember that on contact with the skin, toxins from dyes and additives, such as waterproofing or flame retardants, enter the bloodstream and can cause endocrine alterations and skin allergies or contribute to multiple chemical hypersensitivity (MCS), chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.

Women, who are also more exposed to other toxins, such as those found in cosmetics and cleaning products, are more vulnerable.

Boost your personal style

Conventional fashion is the second most polluting sector on the planet and produces more than we can consume, tempting us with low prices. That is why we must change the way we relate to our garments and choose them more consciously. We must go back to talking about personal style instead of focusing on brands and trends, which standardize and promote consumerism.

Guidelines to renew your wardrobe with new ideas

Bet on values

Choose brands with values ​​that you identify with. Ethical Time is a new search engine and app to select the values ​​that you ask of your brand: that it be vegan, zero waste, social project, sustainable dyes … “We want people to choose everything that makes them feel good on the outside and inside, among all sustainable fashion stores and brands, “says the company. Before buying, research the brand. That’s what Google is for.

Find your sustainable shopping route

In addition to pioneering platforms such as Slow Fashion Next or spaces for brands such as Madrid’s The Circular Project, new platforms are being hatched to strengthen responsible shopping routes. Very recent is Kalon Madrid, specialized in the designs of “contemporary artisans”.

Look beyond the sustainability of the garment

The decent working conditions of those involved are as or more important than the technical process of sustainable manufacturing. Ethics in production is a universal value, but it is especially present among millennials, vegans, neo-rurals or mothers.

Sustainable fashion is not expensive

We do not need many garments, but few of better quality to be more durable and characterize us. You can always alternate purchases of designer clothes, with second hand, vintage or exchange clothes, which you can do through apps or groups of friends. Used clothing is always the most sustainable.

Don’t give up on buying fashion

But you don’t have to buy on impulse, out of habit, for leisure, or to fill a void. A healthy habit is to count the clothes you have in your wardrobe and set a limit per season and, before buying, think if you really need it.

In fashion there is a return to the origins. In the MOMAD forum, in Madrid, they explain that the good treatment, experience and service are taking many customers from large stores and brands to take them to more personal spaces and alternative designers to fast fashion. You can find these spaces at www.modaimpactopositivo.com

Don’t get lost in the stamps

There are many environmental and social accreditations: Bluesign, Gots, Oeko-Tex 1000, Cradle to Cradle… But think that small brands that do not have stamps can also do things well. Certifications cost money that some small brands and designers can’t afford.

Make yourself

With more and more materials, textures, colors and styles to choose from, sustainable fashion has gone to another level. In Madrid, Be2Fabric is the first sustainable fabrics showroom, created to bring together the wide variety of good raw materials available and inspire new sustainable clothing collections. You can go, browse and purchase retail to create your clothes, repair or update them.