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restitchstance

a sustainable and ethical (life)style blog

The joy of creation: Why I love making my own clothes and think you should, too!
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The joy of creation: Why I love making my own clothes and think you should, too!

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Good for the earth, good for your vagina: A sustainable menstrual hygiene guide
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Confessions of an outfit repeater (ft. my fall uniform)
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A broke girl’s guide to sustainable and ethical fashion
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Instagram post 17879626561743316 miss crying to sad girl songs at live shows but this is as close as I can get to that right now lol⁣ ⁣ @jamilawoods’ poetry-turned-music is a reminder of how powerful art and music are for sparking and sustaining movements. so happy I can listen to her music on vinyl with my roomie @chloegoslowly’s record player hehehehehe
Instagram post 18005209993293561 tysm to everyone who shared my graphic about boycotting fast fashion. if that’s something you want to learn more about and is accessible to you, I blog about ethical and sustainable brands (link in bio) and I often post about brands here on my ig.⁣ ⁣ that being said, the best way to be sustainable is to break out of the fast fashion mentality of following every trend and consume less. that’s something I’m working on, too, and I don’t claim to be perfect or even good at practicing sustainability. & I don’t think any individual can make perfect choices when we live within systems that make exploitation an inherent part of consumption.⁣ ⁣ BUT when we combine our individual choices with political action in any sphere, whether it’s fashion or not, we can make change happen. it is none of our personal responsibilities to be 100% sustainable, but I believe it is our collective responsibility to care for each other and our world.⁣ ⁣ there’s a lot more nuance to this topic than can be summed up in an IG post, but that’s what I got for today! thx for tuning into my ted talk 🙏🏼
Instagram post 17878066558755356 intersectional reasons to boycott fast fashion:⁣ ⁣ • if you want to be antiracist: from exploitative labor to environmental damage, fast fashion disproportionately harms low-income communities of color.⁣ ⁣ • if you care about women’s issues: 80% of garment workers are women, many of whom are women of color. being a garment worker in fast fashion is often an underpaid and even dangerous job that doesn’t provide a living wage.⁣ ⁣ • if you care about the environment: fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. from encouraging overconsumption and waste to dumping harmful chemicals into our air, water, and soil, fast fashion is destroying our planet.⁣ ⁣ • if you’re sick of wealth inequality: fast fashion billionaires “earn” their wealth through exploitation. while the owners of H&M, Zara, and other fast fashion companies are worth billions, the people actually making the clothes aren’t making a living wage. in LA, garment workers make, on average, only $5 an hour; in Bangladesh, they can make less than $1 an hour.⁣ ⁣ NOTE: I know it’s not accessible for everyone to boycott fast fashion and it’s just one way of many to advocate for a better world. there is no completely ethical consumption under capitalism and I’m not here to shame anyone for shopping fast fashion. that being said, I hope this post provides an intersectional perspective for why fast fashion is harmful!⁣ feel free to repost w/ credit
Instagram post 17932649947392050 tomorrow I start my new job. feeling grateful. ⁣ [@you.swim suit & @linjerco earrings #gifted]
Instagram post 17850006536233201 living room is coming together! it wasn’t intentional, but of course @chloegoslowly and I ended up with a very green color palette for our living space 🌱⁣ ⁣ we’ve been having a lot of fun sourcing secondhand furniture and home decor from thrift shops and FB marketplace! Chloé and her partner Josh already had a ton of beautiful vintage/secondhand pieces in the apartment when my partner and I moved in, including this gorgeous coffee table and framed artwork. (my contributions include this rug and a plant collection that is growing at an alarming rate.) we just got the sofa this week and now all four of us can watch reality tv together 😂 ⁣ ⁣ where are your favorite places to buy sustainable items for your home?
Instagram post 17846989949254295 channeling main character energy w/ @chloegoslowly⁣ ⁣ here’s how Chloé styled me in her ~soft academia~ aesthetic. it makes me feel like a little French girl 😂⁣ ⁣ [outfits mostly vintage/thrifted, cardigans #gifted from @sezane]
Instagram post 17847965159256709 ur horoscope for leo season is here and it says, f*ck fast fashion⁣ ⁣ H&M illegally laid off 1200 workers in India without notice. Boohoo paid workers only £3.50 an hour in their Leicester factory. Fashion Nova paid workers in LA as little as $2.77 an hour. and many fast fashion brands have been refusing to pay their suppliers at all during the pandemic.⁣ ⁣ if it’s accessible* to you – boycott fast fashion!⁣ ⁣ *I know boycotting fast fashion is just one way we can choose to push for change and I also know it’s not accessible for everyone to do so. but if fashion is important to you and you are able to – let’s reduce our consumption of fast fashion and pressure companies to do better!⁣ ⁣ sources: @remakeourworld @fash_rev @garmentworkercenter⁣ @nytimes ⁣ feel free to repost w/ credit
Instagram post 18020207698304123 not to read way too much into a tiktok aesthetic or anything, but what does #cottagecore mean to you? for me, it’s both an avenue of escapism via fashion/aesthetics and a way to reconnect to our ancestral ways of living – not just the western settler colonialism way of living that a lot of people conceptualize as cottagecore.⁣ ⁣ this is a reflection I’ve had after convos with @aditimayer and @kalos__style and others. making your own clothes is cottagecore. foraging and growing your own food is cottagecore. sustainability is cottagecore! #decolonizecottagecore!
Instagram post 17876566150775708 yesterday my partner and I went to see the tidepools in Santa Cruz. a sea anemone waved its curly green tentacle at me. the waves crashed against the wet sand, the sea wind puffed salt against my skin. it’s been so long since I’ve felt peace like this.
Instagram post 17891055682593544 it’s the Cat x Chloé crossover episode! yep, we live together now 👯‍♀️⁣ ⁣ I never could’ve predicted the life-changing friendships I’ve made through this platform! truly thankful for my new roomie @chloegoslowly especially during this socially isolating time!⁣ ⁣ to celebrate our new lives together (lol), we did a little style aesthetic swap! I styled Chloé in a classic cottagecore thot fit (sorry Josh 😂). go to her feed to see her style me in her soft academia aesthetic📚
Instagram post 17855489303111562 spotlighting 2 BIPOC-owned jewelry brands I’ve fallen for lately:⁣ ⁣ @omathelabel: Black-woman-owned. I have their chain necklace and wear it almost every day! it’s such a unique piece that looks good with everything.⁣ ⁣ @jewelsandaces: Asian-woman-owned, based in Canada. they create “earring capsules,” which are mix and match sets of earring components. I have so much fun creating new combinations!⁣ ⁣ [@jewelsandaces capsule #gifted. I also have an affiliate link if you’d like to support me.]
Instagram post 17861115746005848 my fave top of the summer has been this one from @selvanegra_, a Latinx-owned brand. I was #influenced to buy it by my friend @theflippside, who rocked this top for #slowfashionspiritweek (which feels SO long ago!). it is not actually a swim top but idc, let me pretend I’m on a tropical vacation every time I step outside of my quarantine den.⁣ ⁣ in addition to supporting BIPOC-owned brands, I want to talk about size inclusivity more. I’ve been inspired by my friend @jazminvegaz (whom you should go follow right now if you don’t already) and other plus-sized folks in this space – size shouldn’t limit your ability to support ethical/sustainable fashion, but it does for so many people and that’s not ok!⁣ ⁣ I have been guilty of not thinking about size inclusivity when shopping and promoting ethical/sustainable brands in the past bc I haven’t had to. from now on, I’ll try to do a better job pointing out when the brands I wear are doing a great job with size inclusivity and when they could do better.⁣ ⁣ I love @selvanegra_, but their pieces only run from xs-xl, which is really exclusionary for anyone who isn’t straight-sized. I hope they will expand their sizing!⁣ ⁣ (a lot of brands will use their being small/just starting as an excuse for not having inclusive sizing, but that is still indicative of how the fashion industry and especially ethical/sustainable fashion prioritizes thin people!!)
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