Ethical fashion brands please

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As the thread title say; I'm looking for recommendations for ethical fashion brands.

This year I'm going to try to reduce the amount I buy but I will need to buy some clothes this year, both formal workwear and informal clothing. In order to reduce my spend anything I purchase must be good quality.

By ethical I mean:

• Treatment of workers - doesn't have to be a workers collective or similar although yes please to those too but treat staff ethically and pay all workers a good wage.
• Sustainable.

And preferably:

• No cruelty to animals - I eat meat and wear leather shoes but I'm looking for garments produced with no cruelty.

The ones I know are seasalt, the people tree, thought clothing, toast and I think Monkii but I'm not 100%.

Try some more the scandi brands such as danefae or Papu

*some of the scandi brands that should say

Phew I thought no-one was going to reply, thanks both of you.

I've shopped at People Tree and Toast before, I'll take a look at the others.

Been searching like mad this evening and I love some of the pieces on the Totty Rocks site. The website isn't great, I want to go and have a look round to check their sizing and fabrics, unfortunately I live in South England. We've got family in Edinburgh so maybe DH can be persuaded.

I love nomads clothing too

Kowtow — beautifully made ethical clothing.

Gringo -if you like a bit of 1990s hippie
Komodo -
Lucy and Yak - not just dungarees but casual nonetheless
Skunkfunk
Nomads - very like White stuff in design nowadays
Earth Kind Originals- yoga/ casual but could be dressed up
Mudd & water
Gudrun Sjoden if you like a bit of cheerful folk inspired stuff

Shoes wise if you need them-
Pozu
Conker handmade
Green shoes
DR martins- made in England
Also Gudrun Sjoden

Other stuff -Etsy

I don’t wear smart stuff so not sure on that front but reusing stuff that is already made = ethical.

Also Beaumont Organic

www.eternalcreation.com Have men’s women’s and children’s clothes

Celtic & Co make a lot of their products in the UK from natural British materials (sheepskins etc). They're not cheap but anything I've ever bought from them has been very good quality and if anything seems more expensive than it was.
Ethletics and Veja for trainers.
Ethical Consumer has good guides for this sort of thing: www.ethicalconsumer.org/fashion-clothing

Brora for ethically sourced cashmere

Here's an old thread with more examples:

Ethical clothing brands http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/styleandd_beauty/2801723-Ethical-clothing-brands

Community Clothing, set up by Patrick Grant. Taken over a factory in Blackburn. I've bought a cardigan from them that I've not had off all Christmas.

Thanks everyone, I'm trawling through them and taking a look.

blondie Monki has good environmental credentials on every front but the report I've read says there is room for some improvement, they don't disclose all of their policies. So better than most, which is handy because they have a good range.

Another brand I've found is Kollateralschaden, there isn't much variety of styles, I've found this with most of the brands I've looked at.

If anyone has any other suggestions please keep adding them.

I've seen that thread Kali and I'm working my way through that too. I started a new one because it's two years old and I was hoping that more brands would have emerged since then.

If you're on Instagram then Aisling Bee was recommending ethical clothing and accessories recently on hers. weemissbea on Insta

I'm now following Aisling Bea wonky that's a long list PaulHollywoods, very useful. Etsy is a good idea.

I'm good at getting a lot of wear out of clothes, especially summer clothes, most of mine are 10 + years old because we don't get many warm summers! Usually I update my summer clothing with a few new pieces every year. When I've finished with clothes I always send them to my favourite charity shop.

Solovair shoes - similar to Dr Martens but all made in UK. If you’re ever near Northampton their factory shop is great.

Izzy Lane - probably on the earlier thread.

Ninety percent - mentioned recently on the Parisienne thread. As I understand it, they donate 90% of profits to charities.

Apologies in advance if this sounds discouraging but I came to the conclusion that it’s nigh on impossible to find ethical high street fashion as the whole premise is disposability. Some stores do some things better than others but when I tried to disentangle things I failed miserably. But as a rule of thumb, if a store can’t tell you who their suppliers are then I don’t see how they can even know if they’re operating ethically or not.

I retreated into buying second hand from local shops as much as possible, but even that wouldn’t work half so well for me if everyone did it.

Good on you was also mentioned recently on the Parisienne thread. You can use it to check out brands. I don’t have the app myself but I may give it a try.

We have a wonderful independent shop that stocks a range of ethical brands, their online shop might be of interest.
sanchosshop.com/

I love my Finisterre outerwear though their clothing isn't quite to my taste.

I agree with pp on the whole about the high street although I think Asos and H&M are now able to account fully for their supply chain - ? I'm on my way out and can't find the details though I think it came from here: www.fashionrevolution.org/resources/consumer-survey/ (I'm not saying that makes them ethical, but improved transparency and accountability are positive developments.)

Dukes boots are made in the UK (which IMO addresses a lot of ethical and environmental issues at once) though I don't know if they use British leather.

Again thank you for the links and brand names.

Floisme I agree with you that ethical high street fashion is not environmentally friendly because it relies on the principles of disposability. I've been reducing the amount I buy for years and only buying quality items, I would prefer the few I do buy to be ethnically sound.

Looking through the sites mentioned here and any I've found myself there is a real shortage of ethically produced formal workwear.

Keep any ideas coming, particularly smaller and independent brands.

Ok, disregard my recommendation of Dukes. My boots arrived this evening and are very disappointing. The colour is off, the suede is cheap and scruffy and the 'shearling' lining is like something in a pair of C&A slippers. They're going back tomorrow.

Oh that's disappointing about Dukes.

Purple I hope I didn't sound judgy and apologies if I did. I'm in no position to preach as I still have a thing for fast fashion although I try and keep it on a short leash.

Another brand I've not seen mentioned (although it may be on the earlier thread) is John Smedley which is made in Britain and, as I understand it, still family owned. Expensive but there's a sale on at the moment plus they have an online outlet store and I believe there's also a factory shop in Derbyshire.

Interesting thread, will be looking at some of these