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Green clothing is a topic close to my heart, so I was pleased to find this article with a few tips.  A couple of ways to be greener with your clothing are to own less clothing (making your closet a more pleasant place, most likely) and to buy used clothing at yard sales and thrift stores. This article considers new clothing. — Zana

What About Green Clothing?

By Todd Ashe

The main gripe some naturalists have with cotton, polyester, and many other clothing fibers most of us wear is that they’re laden with chemicals, and had all sorts of herbicides used while growing the products. You’ve probably noticed that new clothes smell, but that’s not a natural smell, but a chemical smell. Most of us are used to it by now, but some people do have negative reactions to the smell.

Some other people have bad reactions to some of the chemicals in the clothing, although we might not always know it’s because of the chemicals. For instance, a suit jacket made with horse hair and cotton will make some people itch, but it’s not the horse hair that’s doing it on its own. Rather, it’s a mixture of horse hair with chemically treated cotton that people are reacting to.

Instead of going the route that most people go, some folks are looking at other alternatives. One of those alternative is organic cotton. It’s grown just like regular cotton, only no herbicides are used while growing it, and no chemicals are used on the back end either. It doesn’t change the feel of the clothes all that much, but it does change the smell. Plus, the clothes are totally biodegradable, which means if you wanted to, you could bury it in the back yard when you were done with it and it would break down naturally and safely.

Something else that’s occurring these days is a mixture of bamboo fabric and organic cotton. Bamboo fabric come from bamboo grass, and resembles cotton in its unspun form. Bamboo also has antibacterial qualities, which some people like. It doesn’t quite come out white, however, so that’s one reason it will be mixed with cotton, to brighten it up.

The only problem with buying clothing made with organic fibers is that it costs more. Some people don’t care, but for others, since costs can come in between 30% to 50% higher, it might be cost prohibitive. Other than that, though, there’s no appreciable difference between naturalistic clothing and processed clothing.

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