Tonight is Wadham Ball 2007! Oh yeah. I have mitigated some of the guilt I feel at spending £70 on a ball ticket when there are children starving in Africa by making sure that my outfit for the ball is as ethical as possible.
My dress is Fairtrade organic cotton and comes from People Tree (http://www.peopletree.co.uk/), who produce Fairtrade clothes, accredited by IFAT (International Fair Trade Association). They also have extremely stringent environmental policies and pretty much all their cotton is organic, much of it Soil Association certified. This is the dress I'm wearing tonight, and quite affordable it was too considering ethical clothes have a reputation for being stupidly, ridiculously expensive (only £38!).
I've got some shoes and bag to go with it from Reign, a retro second-hand independent clothes shop at the end of my road in Cowley, Oxford. They are both silver and sparkly! And because they are second-hand they are well ethical because it means new resources have not had to be harvested from the Earth to make them. This is thus another example of the Reuse part of the Mantra I mentioned yesterday, "Reduce, REUSE, Recycle".
My dress is Fairtrade organic cotton and comes from People Tree (http://www.peopletree.co.uk/), who produce Fairtrade clothes, accredited by IFAT (International Fair Trade Association). They also have extremely stringent environmental policies and pretty much all their cotton is organic, much of it Soil Association certified. This is the dress I'm wearing tonight, and quite affordable it was too considering ethical clothes have a reputation for being stupidly, ridiculously expensive (only £38!).
I've got some shoes and bag to go with it from Reign, a retro second-hand independent clothes shop at the end of my road in Cowley, Oxford. They are both silver and sparkly! And because they are second-hand they are well ethical because it means new resources have not had to be harvested from the Earth to make them. This is thus another example of the Reuse part of the Mantra I mentioned yesterday, "Reduce, REUSE, Recycle".
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