Choice Materials is all about carefully sourced cloth
Choosing cloth carefully amid a very, very large economically driven market which has less to do with design and creativity is a small individual action.
The fashion industry has now been outed and is starting to address their responsibility as customers share their concerns for the environmental cost and workers conditions. As with food labelling, manufacturers must begin to share information; where raw materials are sourced and what the bio degradable credentials are when garments are discarded. Take a look at http://sustainable-fashion.com/
for more information about this.
And contrary to belief, organic/sustainable cloth should not be difficult to source nor more expensive to buy.
This is the main driver behind Choice Materials
- Organic/sustainable cloth is comparably priced alongside mass produced non organic/sustainable equivalents
- It enables you to 'make your own', much more rewarding than buying off the peg
- You know your hand made items can be circular/composted when the cloth has reached the very end of usefulness.
If you are not in Yorkshire and want to catch up with Choice Materials, visit the linked Etsy shop. It doesn't have everything but it's an intro to the range ...
Here's some resources which provide info and insights into the circular/sustainable fashion movement -
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/ ARTICLE shorturl.at/bejlE
Fixing Fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee 19/02/2019
Fixing Fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability Government Response to the Committee's Sixteenth Report
And it is a controversial subject