Comments on: Can we find eco style on Oxford St? http://www.greenmystyle.com/can-we-find-eco-style-on-oxford-st/ Your Daily Eco Glossy Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: sissi adamski http://www.greenmystyle.com/can-we-find-eco-style-on-oxford-st/comment-page-1/#comment-86 sissi adamski Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:43:33 +0000 http://www.greenmystyle.com/?p=1200#comment-86 thx for this little journey through oxford street....! i try to avoid high street chains though it is important to go there every now and then and keep asking for ethical stuff. otherwise they will never know that there is a market out there for people who care. however, whenever i talk to my friends about the subject (e.g. cotton production and its environmental impact or sweatshops) more than two third roll their eyes and i can feel they don't give a sh**. they probably think i shop organic and buy fair trade products because i want to be "eccentric" and different. :-( thx for this little journey through oxford street….!

i try to avoid high street chains though it is important to go there every now and then and keep asking for ethical stuff. otherwise they will never know that there is a market out there for people who care.

however, whenever i talk to my friends about the subject (e.g. cotton production and its environmental impact or sweatshops) more than two third roll their eyes and i can feel they don’t give a sh**.

they probably think i shop organic and buy fair trade products because i want to be “eccentric” and different.

:-(

]]> By: Nicola Thomas http://www.greenmystyle.com/can-we-find-eco-style-on-oxford-st/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Nicola Thomas Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:04:18 +0000 http://www.greenmystyle.com/?p=1200#comment-41 Thanks Sarah, Good article. I've been meaning to do a similar article but never seem to find the time, and glad you have. I'm tempted to say it's probably got a lot better in recent years, but has it? If you'd gone shopping on Oxford Street 50 years ago, it wouldn't have been chain after chain, instead there probably would have been a generous sprinkling of independents without the need to forego ethics in the pursuit of mass consumerism. I just wish the mainstream giants would be more proactive, rather than reactive to the need to be more ethical. Great pointing out that putting the organic capsule collections in one spot would be much better - not many people would even think, let alone bother about looking for ethical clothing. I'm yet to be convinced it's a mass movement. It's definitely stirring though. Thanks Sarah, Good article. I’ve been meaning to do a similar article but never seem to find the time, and glad you have. I’m tempted to say it’s probably got a lot better in recent years, but has it? If you’d gone shopping on Oxford Street 50 years ago, it wouldn’t have been chain after chain, instead there probably would have been a generous sprinkling of independents without the need to forego ethics in the pursuit of mass consumerism. I just wish the mainstream giants would be more proactive, rather than reactive to the need to be more ethical.

Great pointing out that putting the organic capsule collections in one spot would be much better – not many people would even think, let alone bother about looking for ethical clothing. I’m yet to be convinced it’s a mass movement. It’s definitely stirring though.

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