1. Happy hour is actually...at 5...in the afternoon
2. Knee length skirts and longer may need to be aquired for my new job...unless I work from home as a blogger or something in web design (dream job)
*Sidenote: dream job: as a web content editor and work from home. I am aplying for said job as of 3 weeks ago!
3. No more Forever 21... :( As much as I love shopping there for an entire season of dispensible clothing, it's time to make smarter fashion decisions.
Seriously. Work place, here we come.
With that sentiment and my vegan meal in front of me, I give you an article I wrote last semester regarding Eco-fashion. Please enjoy! :)
Diana Mao, Kimberly Robinson and Margaret Breslau share with Southern Fashionista the importance of making eco-friendly fashion purcahses. It's not just a style choice; it is a stroke of political action.
“Every time you’re spending a dollar, you’re making a political decision” said Margaret Breslau, the owner of Homebody on Main Street in Blacksburg, Virginia. Breslau has owned and operated the establishment for nearly eight years now, and has been at the fore front of numerous local political movements. Her shop walls are lined with hand crafted housewares, accessories and t-shirts, as well as a political slogan or two. “We kept Wal-Mart out of Blacksburg,” Breslau states as she shakes her head with disgust. A framed clipping of the article hangs just inside the back entrance as a reminder. “We [local merchants] weren’t a fan of the corporate business’ ‘bait and switch’ tactics…sneaking into communities.”
Community-mindedness pervades Breslau’s ethical constitution. “You wouldn’t want to buy something from someone that’s being--exploited?” she scoffs, laughing at the idea. Everything, from the American Apparel tee shirts lining the walls to the hand crafted notebooks lining the wooden bookshelves, is ethically produced and the labor is sweat-shop free.
What drives Breslau? “…well you know it’s a feminist issue,” She pauses to mull over the idea thoughtfully.
“Most of our clothing is not made in this country. Very little of it is made in this country. Most of it comes from somewhere else in some factory. And the people who work in textile factories for the most part are young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty-two. And they’re working under terrible conditions. Not getting paid. They have no benefits, and they’re exploited. So I consider it a feminist issue for one thing. A lot of the clothing made in the store is made in women’s co-operatives.”
