Organic Clothing

                   Okay. We understand that organic food is made without harsh pesticides and chemicals. We understand that organic cleaning products are used without harsh chemicals that can trigger asthma. But what does organic clothing mean?
                   We all know that organic clothing is better for the environment and better for guilt free shopping. But seriously? How are we helping the environment. After doing some research on google, I came across a great website called fashionandearth.com, that helped me immensely to find this answer.
                   First off, the clothing is made of organic materials, such as recycled fibers and natural fibers. Just like the foods and cleaning products, the fibers that make our clothing are made with no pesticides. Who knew that many of our regular clothing are made with pesticides! When made, they also use less carbon, energy, and pollution. That is a definite plus. The crops that the textiles are made from also take less energy and water to grow. Renewable resources also are organic. Examples of renewable resources are bamboo and wood. One may ask, how do these make good clothing! Trust me, personally having some bamboo made clothing items, and it is very comfortable and cute.
                    Regular cotton requires a whole lot of water. It requires so much water that water shortages have been caused in many areas of the globe. Normal cotton consumes %24 of global insecticides, and 11% of the world's pesticides.(Not good) Because of this amount used, serious collateral damage in the environment is now a common thing. You know your delicious sushi, little blue jays, and cute turtles? They are affected by this. So are many other birds and ocean animals. The horrible pesticides can get into them. Very sad. The rivers of our world are also getting bad pesticides in them too. This can affect our drinking water if done recklessly. That is what happened in Pakistan and India. In india, most of their brands of Cola and bottled drinking water were containing pesticides. This kills approximately 67 million birds each year. It also has affected our national bird, the bald eagle. If you think you can just wash these harmful pesticides away, think again. It takes a long time to go away. After a study in 1992 about health affects and pesticides, their were connections between it and brain cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, leukemia, birth defects, fecundability, fetal death, intrauterine growth retardation.
                   Polyester is also another thing that regular clothing is made out of. Guess what's used to produce polyester? Oil. Non renewable resource. Takes an EXTREMELY long time to make again. Just like styrofoam, polyester is not biodegradable and end up in land fills for a long time. Around 12 billion pounds of this stuff ends up in land-fills every year! Your shirt that you are wearing today may still exist when your great great grandchild just got married. Yeah. I think you get the point. Polyester also takes up so much energy! Overall, although cute and comfy, it is a weapon against our environment.
                   Since the demand for cotton and polyester are growing more and more, we need to find a solution do quench the demand and to save our environment. Such solutions are already made..and great! They are organic cotton, organic wool, hemp, tencel, silk, bamboo and many more. When getting bamboo made products however, you have to make sure they are panda friendly. This means that you aren't taking the food out of Panda's mouths. What decision will you make? I hope you made the smarter choice. I know I will.

                  Great organic collections and clothing companies are 

1. H&M The Garden Collection( really inexpensive)
2. katherine Hamnett
3. Kuyichi
4. Lela designs
5. Linda Loudermilk
6. Living Planet
7. Terra Plana
8. Syka Textiles
9. Susan Harris design
10. Simple
11. Angel Cove
12. 3tree apparel inc.
13. alchemy goods
14. emerican apparel
15. ueno style
16. cotton ginny
17. ecosandals
18. hemp and company
19. HER design handbags
20. Stella McCartney