Responsible clothing Advanced
Sustainable practices on responsible consumption in clothing:
Are about combating excessive and mass production, promoting small and medium-scale, local production, using slow processes and technology to reduce the industry's impact
Are only about combating excessive and mass production, and promoting small and medium-scale production
Are only about local production, using slow processes and technology to reduce the industry's impact
The weight of economy in clothing is increasingly growing. This growth can be explained by:
A rising affluence of cheap garments, since consumers do not have money to buy new clothing
A rising affluence of cheap garments produced mostly in emerging economies, and an increased disposability, since consumers only keep the clothes for half of the time as they used to do
A decreasing affluence of cheap garments, since consumers keep the clothes for a very long time
Social, cultural and legal concerns on the fashion industry need to be paid attention are closely related to the fast-fashion concept. With the liberalization of markets, fast-fashion brands:
Do not, as a rule, have their own production, although, under the current law, they must be responsible for the social conditions of their working chain
Do not, as a rule, have their own production
Have their own production, but are not responsible for the social conditions of their working chain
Environmental sustainability in clothing includes the concept of regenerative fashion.
This implies working and using land in harmony with nature, implementing techniques such as land rotation, combination of cultures, application of cover crops and indigenous knowledge, among others
The regenerative aspect just means maintenance through the life prolonging of clothing
This just implies implementing techniques such as land rotation
Future challenges in responsible clothing, implies:
To establish minimum production prices by law, in order to guarantee a fair labor system that includes decent wages and allows the intellectual, creative, and economic development of communities
The combination of the previous answers
To promote a regulation of profits and their more equitable distribution along the supply chain