In contrast, high street fashion pushes these costs onto others – resulting in environmental pollution at the place of production and disposal, hazardous work conditions, and deep poverty.
With ethical fashion, you are essentially paying for the real cost of your garment. In contrast, high street fashion pushes these costs onto others – resulting in environmental pollution at the place of production and disposal, hazardous work conditions, and deep poverty. The very aspects that make a fashion brand ‘ethical’ – fair wages, transparency, sustainable fabrics, durability – mean that brand new ethical clothing is usually more expensive than the clothes you find on the high street.