If there’s one thing we love here at Shop the City (Besides fashion, of course) is sustainability. Rarely will you find us touting made in sweatshop brands, and we’ll usually make notes about sustainability and longevity with the clothes we recommend to our clients.
Here’s a look at our fave sustainable brands, perfect for shopping from the safety of your couch this 2020 year!
Everlane
Those who have been on shopping trips with us know - this is our FAVORITE for affordable basics with a sustainability slant. They hold their factories to a global standard and provide training and extended benefits to all their employees. Not to mention, they consistently partner with great US based organizations on fund-raising for a cause efforts.
2. Reformation
With trendy dresses in lightweight fabric, these are a go-to for everything from wedding guests to wine tasting. So what makes them sustainable? Green practices to their sourcing and production of their products, and offsetting any additional carbon footprint they leave behind, by planting trees in the Brazilian rain forest.
3. For Love and Lemons
Similarly to Reformation, this trendy-cute line practices green and sustainable production as well as investing in more earth-friendly textiles and fabrics. Similarly to Everlane, For Love and Lemons operates a globally certified factory, ensuring their workers and producers are well taken care of.
This unisex/menswear shop produces high quality, low impact basics made with high quality natural ingredients using centuries old natural process to dye and design their clothes using natural, sustainably sourced fibers. They also provide training and hefty benefits for their factory workers, and strive to produce impact free packaging as well. You can’t get more green than that!
5. Rothy’s
These cult favorite flats, perfect for the modern workwear, are a total green brand too! They’re made of recycles plastic and are machine washable, which means no more buying to replace as soon as these get stained and worn looking. Ready to try them? Click here for $20 off your first pair.
6. Alternative Apparel
These sweats, which if you’ve visited Pavilion with me on a shopping trip you will have tried on, are sustainably made with recycled textiles and ultra soft/luxe sustainably sourced cotton. They go the distance by ensuring safe, clean works paces for their employees, up to global standards.
And a few tips to keep in mind for sustainable shopping:
