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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. Read the rest of this entry »

This guest article has some interesting background on organic cotton.  It doesn’t mention that conventional cotton is grown with huge amounts of chemicals, which then remain in the soil. A few years ago, I thought of doing an organic cotton clothing website, but I couldn’t find enough sites to link to on the internet. Here’s one good place for organic cotton t-shirts:

Many of their designs have an organic option. — I buy organic cotton when I can. –  Zana

Organic Cotton – Leading a Return to the Simple Life

By Randy Pope

In the 1961 movie, “The Graduate”, a young Dustin Hoffman asks his college professor, upon graduating from college, “What do I do now?” To which the professor whispers, “plastics”. At the same time that the revolution against modest clothing captured the minds of America’s youth America began its love affair with synthetics. Now nearly one decade into the 21st century some of the aspects of the simple life are experiencing a come back. Read the rest of this entry »