This year’s Dressember has just ended and I am so happy with the turnout and generous gifts from friends and family. I thought it would be a good time to talk about fashion and how it impacts the trafficing industry.
Many “fast fashion” types of companies use cheap labor to keep costs low, meaning workers may not receive a living wage for their work. Trafficked individuals may also be forced into free labor, which is why Dressember and the companies working to end human trafficking encourage ethical and sustainable fashion.
For this month-long challenge, I have also challenged myself to use as few dresses as possible and not to purchase anything new for the challenge.
The dresses I’ve chosen to use are a white dress, a black dress, a red dress, and a burgundy dress. I also used a few green dresses, as well as a blue dress and a sweater dress, but those were each mainly used one time, so I wanted to focus on the versatility of the other dresses.
The first thing I did while looking at the prompt list was to figure out characters that fit those prompts which use the colors of my dresses, or, more specifically, colors associated with Christmas (so that I could also have my feed have a Christmasy feel to it.
I was also limited in my choices by being 6-7 months pregnant. This meant I needed dresses that would fit over my baby belly as well!
In all I was happy I could use dresses that not only fit and were used more than once, but also that were already in my closet! I even used my red dress in the month before Dressember for Fall Dapper Day from home!
What are your thoughts on fast fashion? Do you have any suggestions for wearing more sustainable clothing? Or an ethical clothing line I should check out? Let me know in the comments!
Styles of a Rogue Princess 