Lifestyle Guide: Fashion - Hey Social Good

Fashion

Shopping for fun and purpose goes hand in hand

Women's Clothing, men's clothing, shoes, active wear, undergarments, and more

Replace your everyday fashion with sustainable finds

Savvy Tips You Should Know

Buy clothing that will last a long time or long enough to resell. Hit up amazing upcycling businesses like Swap Society or ThredUp. These purpose driven companies make buying secondhand clothing as fun as scavenger hunts!

TIPS AND TRICKS

(1) SEEK OUT old companies who are changing their sustainability DNA, like Levi’s Jeans who are game changers because improving the life cycle of jeans means reducing water waste and carbon emissions.

(2) CHECK where your clothes are made from.

(3) START understanding fabric materials and how they can create less impact (cotton vs polyester).

WHAT'S TRENDING NOW

Buying from vintage shops or online markets means you help eliminate a portion of the 100 billion pieces of clothing that gets thrown in landfills every year.

CONSIDER THIS

Buy from upcycle designers. They take unwanted clothing or material and creatively repurposes or upcycles them into beautiful new pieces that are to die for.

Fashion Companies: Socks

Toe Sox

Gold Medal for Give Back

We've donated nearly 7,800 products to Souls4Soles, whom collect shoes and clothing for those in need. More socks bought means more socks donated!

Sock Dreams

Platinum Medal for Give Back

For every pair of Charitable Socks sold, we'll donate a portion of our profits to a non-profit. We believe in inclusivity to the max!

Maggie's Organics

Rising Star for Social Good

Socks made with organic cotton will keep your fee warmer and your heart sing because of the more sustainable farming and worker treatment practices.

Osom Brand

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Skyline Socks

Silver Medal for Give Back

Donates socks to homeless shelters, nonprofits, veterans, and deployed men and women

Sidekick Socks

Gold Medal for Social Good

Keeping fast fashion waste out of landfills, Sidekick Socks recycles t-shirt fabric into socks and is committed to donating to those in need

Fashion Companies: Active Wear and Yoga

Atali Apparel

Bronze Medal for Give Back

One par of pants designed to replace 6 pairs, customized to fit the best crag, best climb!

Teeki

Rising Star for Social Good

Yoga pants that's better for you and the planet.

GirlFriend Collective

Rising Star for Social Good

Leggings and tops made out of recycled water bottles. They got us at "Because old water bottles and fishing nets look better on you than they do clogging landfills and polluting oceans."

42 Birds

Gold Medal for Give Back

The truest sustainable yoga mats made from Mediterranean oak trees. Trees aren't cut down because the yogacork mat is made from tree barks. These oak trees help absorb 3-5 times more CO2 than non-harvested trees and helps support home to 42 native birds to boot.

Rumi Feel Good

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Instead of buying yoga wear from fast fashion companies that make up 10% of the world's carbon emissions, try this sustainable yoga company that recycles plastic and coffee grounds to make cute yoga apparel

Outdoor Voices

In Review

Yes to upcycling plastic bottles into yummy yoga wear

What's The Fuss With Sustainable Fashion?

Sustainable fashion is the opposite of fast, cheap fashion buying. Instead, it is the practice of creating, designing, manufacturing, and selling clothing in a way that doesn’t harm the planet or the people making the clothes.

We should all work to minimize any undesirable environmental effect during a product’s life cycle. This means: (a) ensuring efficient and careful use of natural resources (water, energy, land, soil, animals, plants, biodiversity, ecosystems, etc); (b) selecting renewable energy sources (wind, solar, etc) at every stage, and (c) maximizing repair, remake, reuse, and upcycling of the product and its components. In practice, this implies continuous work to improve all stages of the product’s life cycle, from design, raw material production, manufacturing, transport, storage, marketing and final sale, to use, reuse, repair, remake and recycling of the product and its components.

Sustainable fashion also means we work to improve working conditions for workers in the factories, transportation chain, and stores.