Ethical shoping

[map_of_the_world]

there's a new community called dignified_dress which says on the user info This is a community for people who are serious about what they wear and who want to share a culture (and resources) in which clothing can be an ethical choice. A choice that considers the workers who produce our clothes, the environment that sustains our production of clothes and the women (and men) who wear it.



which is all good if you can afford to buy ethical clothes, lots of people, especially in this economy can't. If people can afford these clothes then good for them but its way too easy to move into a headspace that assumes moral superiority over someone because you have the financial wherewithal to make shopping choices that they don't. if you have four kids and no job you are going to buy your clothes from George/walmart



sometimes environmental/ethical shopping feels like another form of classism, a way of denigrating poor people because they don't make the "right" choices

Comments

[burningmarl.livejournal.com]

I think this often, especially when almost every term Amnesty or Christian Union or, even - UGH - Labour Students, suggest a protest outside Primark. We're all fucking uni kids for fuck's sake.

[burningmarl.livejournal.com]

&also, I hate it when people promote ~~making clothes yourself~~ out of stuff from charity shops, like working people have enough time!!

[burningmarl.livejournal.com]

*working class people

[lost-letters.livejournal.com]

god, yes, where do they suggest poor people buy their clothes from?