When: May 1 // Weather: 60ish // Real life: working from home (before the wine, obviously)
I’ve been doing my best to encourage support of sustainable/ethical brands, but I realized recently that that can be its own ethical dilemma, because there’s no Sustainability Czar that can tell me (or you) who’s doing it right and who’s melting the ice caps. Sure, plenty of brands drop the “sustainability” buzzwords, but who’s policing that? (Greta Thunberg? No. She’s probably busy with e-learning.)
But over the weekend I discovered a pretty helpful guide called Good On You. This site has a lot of information, including ratings of a ton of brands. Of course, it’s just one site’s made-up rating system, and some of the ratings are a couple years old, but it seems well-researched to me. Some of the ratings may surprise you, like H&M supposedly being better than Everlane, the latter of which shows up on every freaking sustainable fashion blogger, including yours truly.
I really want to give you guys good information, and I’m finding Good On You to be a helpful tool when combined with my own opinions and instincts. So now when I link to what I’m wearing, I might sometimes put “quasi-sustainable brand” (like I did here for my Modern Citizen sweater and Cuyana pants – both of which I love by the way). That just means I found some competing information, but in the end I decided it was a brand I wanted to support.
You know what else I support? Rosé. All day. Especially during quarantine.
Sweater (quasi-sustainable brand) // Pants (quasi-sustainable brand) // Shoes (sustainable brand) // Sunglasses
