Fair Trade Organic Clothing - Did You Only Think Cotton? Now Add Bamboo, Wool, Soya and So Much More

Have you Rediscovered Organic Clothing?

When we think of ‘organic clothing’ for either ourselves or our baby, some of us still immediately think in terms of cotton: cotton denim, cotton shirts, cotton blankets, cotton diapers, etc and all in drab, "natural" colors. The clothing world, however, is not quite as quick to exclude other natural fibers and materials from the list of raw products for organic clothing.

Our Growing List of Organic Materials is Refreshing
Materials such as organically grown bamboo, cashmere, alpaca, wool, tencel, silk, flax, hemp and even soy produce fibers can and are being successfully included in the makeup of high quality and very wearable organic clothing. Encouragingly, this list is growing pretty well on a monthly basis - Hoorah for our eco-scientists!

Maintaining Our Awareness Essential At Any Cost
As our awareness of the need to conserve our environment increases, so does our suspicion we may harbor in terms of believing everything that we are told by those who are in control. Hindsight shows us that pesticides and chemicals freely used in our agricultural systems in years gone by - previously an economic necessity for maximizing returns, perhaps also even believed to be relatively harmless - are in actual fact responsible for a plethora of illnesses, infertility, and increasing allergy incidences in both adults and children today, not to mention the unprovable degradation of health and well-being levels.

Ingraining Organics Habits - A Real Help
When we have available to us such a magnitude of organically farmed and produced clothing items, why are we still accepting goods and wearing clothing which can harm our bodies and minds? These very fixed patterns of buying the article with the cheapest label have to be reviewed. They don't take into account:
- the likely or possible personal toll of disadvantaging our health and wellness levels so increasing our need for reliance on "organic" supplements, vitamins, etc - not to mention the undeterminable increases in our medical bills.
- the contamination of our environment, be it close at hand so affecting us this year; or across the oceans so affecting our children in a not far off decade.

Climatic Catastrophies Spells Collapsing eConomies
Even if we think that we can't be certain that our continent will be affected by what is happening in, say Asia, we are fooling ourselves. More climatic catastrophies anywhere and everywhere increase the strain on our world economies. And we all feel the fear and danger of that collapsing like dominoes.

No longer do organic jeans cost the earth! As more and more consumers are enviro-aware, niche fabricators of organic clothing are filling an obvious and growing space in the market. And with demand, and increased supply, there comes a decrease in cost as manufacturers look for more efficient ways of producing what the customer demands. Organic clothing manufacturers are able to compete in the market and still maintain an eco-friendly ethos. By focusing on Fair Trade policies which deal directly with the small-end producer/manufacturer, and thus reducing the middle-man costs, it is entirely possible to compete in terms of price, and win in terms of quality of the clothing on the store racks. Now is the time to re-think Non-organic jeans are costing us our Earth!

Remaining fashionable need not be an issue - after all - it’s the designer, not the fabric that makes the fashion statement!

The Internet is Organic and ECO-nomic
The explosion of internet capabilities enables us to choose where we shop, and many organic clothing companies now recognize the market place that exists online. Small producers of organic clothing can be found right here. They can be investigated for their sound eco- and tradesman friendly attitudes, and we are able to make the choices about the organic clothing we wish to wear. There are environmental advantages in most aspects of online shopping so let's make more use of that!