How Ethical and Sustainable Fashion Improves Our Environment

We all want to positively impact our society and environment, leaving them better than they were. You may not be aware, but sustainable fashion can be seen as somewhat of an oxymoron. The fashion industry is guilty of creating a massively negative environmental impact.

According to a 2019 story by Business Insider: “The fashion industry produces 10% of all humanity’s carbon emissions, is the second-largest consumer of the world’s water supply, and pollutes the oceans with microplastics.”

This is a deeply concerning trend that we want to curb immediately. But how? Through ethical and sustainable fashion.

Let’s learn about ethical and sustainable fashion and how The Evans Group (TEG) harnesses the practice to create socially and environmentally-friendly couture.

What is Ethical and Sustainable Fashion?

Ethical and sustainable fashion refers to practices and processes towards manufacturing clothes, sourcing fabric and materials, and creating couture with a reduced negative social and environmental impact.

The fashion and textile industries are filled with talented, hard-working people. As such, these creative and dedicated individuals need to be treated with respect. That means engaging in the latest labor standards and laws. For example, a staggering amount of women in the Global South are exposed to unethical and exploitative working conditions.

As attention focuses on climate and environmental issues, the fashion industry needs to recognize and own up to some problematic practices.

But it’s more than just getting the suitable materials. It’s a mindset and set of values that people and businesses need to abide by.

What Are the Most Sustainable Materials To Use When Building A Brand?

When you start crafting your own clothing line and brand, you probably want to jump right in and create. TEG encourages that creative power and fosters that lust for life that helps spur on clothing design. Let’s see some of the most sustainable materials that new clothing designers can use to make their custom clothing orders scream ‘sustainability.’

• Natural Fibers. Materials like recycled cotton, organic hemp, and linen all have beneficial properties when crafting couture. The best part? These materials come straight from the earth.
• Cutting-edge Fabrics. There are also a few great new alternatives, like wood pulp-based cellulose fabric. With materials like these, they also present some tremendous sustainable fashion options. Many of the chemicals don’t even make their way into the environment. Instead, they’re being recycled back into the development process.

Fast Fashion: A Fast Fix, a Future Hazard

Now for the elephant in the room: fast fashion. We’ve already gone over the detrimental impact that fast fashion has on the environment, but let’s go a bit further.

Let’s be honest: fast fashion is convenient. It’s affordable, accessible to the consumer, and quick to manufacture on a large scale.

However, fast fashion doesn’t have longevity and even poses a considerable risk to our environment. And I think we all know that we don’t need any more problems.

For example, we dispose of a staggering amount of clothing per year, a majority of which has the potential for reuse.

Because of fast fashion, that number is growing. How do we buck that fashion trend? How can we work toward a more ethical and sustainable fashion trend?

That’s where Jennifer Evans and the TEG team come in.

Find a Clothing Manufacturer That Focuses on Sustainable Fashion

When you’re shopping around for clothing manufacturers, you must settle on a company that stresses the importance of lessening the dire environmental impact that fast fashion has on the industry.

With TEG, Jennifer Evans made it her personal mission to commit to the highest ethical and sustainable fashion goals. The TEG team has been a leader in transparency in the fashion industry.

For a Los Angeles clothing manufacturer, Jennifer Evans and the creative and textile teams engage in some of the most ethical and sustainable fashion practices. Along with using better materials and fabric, TEG hires local textile workers from nearby L.A. clothing factories, creating local jobs.

With past clients like the women-led Hiraeth to independent designer Greg Lauren, TEG has positively impacted the environment and the fashion industry.

Conclusion

Whether you’re opting for a small batch manufacturing clothing order or a grand fashion line to put your fashion brand on the map, you can take comfort knowing that TEG uses the latest in sustainability to help both you and the environment.

We want to make great clothes without the massive environmental toll. While it’s not a perfect science yet, we’re working on it. And hopefully, it’ll be the industry standard from now on.