Guilt-free shopping?
Despite my love of fashion and shopping there's always a niggling question at the back of my mind, who made my clothes, and for how much? Ethical clothing companies such as Enamore offer an alternative like the beautiful but expensive Minnie Dress, above £135. When its an army of grannies across the UK, your conscience can rest easy, but what about your latest Topshop, Gap or Mango purchase? Well firstly, the Arcadia group who consist of Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge, and Topshop but to name a few have a bad track record where it concerns ethical clothing. Director Phillip Green has refused to sign up to the ETI (Ethical Trade Initiative), despite launching organic fairtrade concession of the Gossypium brand in stores earlier this year.
Tesco, Primark and New Look have all signed the ETI, but what this has achieved in unclear, as they have no powers of enforcement. Talking in the Guardian yesterday, Sam Maher of Labour Behind the Label stated there wasn't really anywhere to shop for ethical goods on the high-street and went on to say "There are some companies, such as Gap, who are making moves in the right direction. But there is not one single company which is making a point of producing ethically sound clothing." Below is a lovely tea dress from Ciel, a small ethical business but at £175, I might have to stick to the charity shops!
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