Ethical & Sustainable Kids Clothes

[nightdune]

What shops and brands do you recommend for ethical and sustainable kids clothing?

How old?
Babipur has a range of brands.
I usually buy lots second hand (Vinted works out well I find).

2nd hand. H&M has a conscious range.

Scandi type baby clothes are apparently ethical. You can get them on Facebook. My sister is on Facebook groups where you can buy and sell second hand. I can't remember what the groups are called but I can ask her if you are interested.

Little green radicals, frugi, kite, toby tiger. Little green radicals are the best, ethically and huge a sale on right now!

Babipur stock a lot of ethical brands and currently have sales on most of them.

Second hand clothing is always a good way to be sustainable and also get some bargains.

Tilly & Jasper sell a lot of the brands people have mentioned

Thank you! I will definitely be trying to stick to op shops / thrift shops as much as possible.

One thing I'm really struggling to find is kids runners / trainers that are still in good condition. Any recommendations?

Good on you gives Adidas a 'good' rating but other websites state they aren't ethical/ sustainable so I'm a bit lost there...

If you aren't in the UK we might not be able to help much but I tend to get lightly used trainers from Ebay or else buy brands like Geox that, while not any more ethical than others AFAIK, are likely to last longer.

My DD has to have black trainers (not black shoes, not another colour trainers, no logos) for school (primary, these are her only school shoes) and we don't want fabric as they just leak, so we have to buy Nike as no other brand has this exact spec in her size.

The Scandi brands like Duns and Maxomorra are purported to be ethical, but I'm not that convinced any more. They have so many drops each year and more and more stuff ending up in sales and putting independent businesses under pressure, it just feels more like fast fashion at ethical prices these days. They also need much more careful washing and drying than others, I've found, and look wash faded and worn very quickly in my experience.

M&S and H&M have sustainable lines at reasonable prices and are excellent quality and tend to wash and wear well, M&S in particular. Both only rated as 'It's a start' on Good on You, though. Frugi has some nice stuff and is meant to be ethical, but again, they've expanded a lot and put their prices up recently. Echo a PP that Little Green Radicals seems to be the brand that actually lives up to their ethical credentials the most.

I try to buy mostly second hand for DS through preloved shops, FB groups and eBay etc. as agree that that's the most sustainable thing you can do. You get some great bargains that way, too.

Frugi ship in plastic and when I asked them why, and pointed out that brands like People Tree ship in paper, they said "but we have to ship in plastic".

@drspouse

Frugi ship in plastic and when I asked them why, and pointed out that brands like People Tree ship in paper, they said "but we have to ship in plastic".

🤦‍♀️ How silly. I've not bought from them directly before, just bought their stuff from independent retailers. I do feel that a lot of the more well-known ethical brands are only ethical on a surface level but once you scratch the surface it's all just marketing tactics.

Actually, I got a couple of their pairs of trousers for DS that arrived yesterday and they are in compostable bags. So maybe they did listen.

I’ve never had plastic from Frugi so not sure if they’ve changed their protocols!

Agree with all posters above. Frugi and Little Green Radicals are my fav. I either wait for a sale and go mad on different sizes, or try to eBay.

M&S is great for jammies, and it’s all organic cotton