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Size Is Just A Number
What’s your personal definition of beauty? I hope everyone just answered, “me!” In my book, beauty is all about believing in yourself, acceptance and being unafraid of who you are physically and mentally. Since I can remember, the fashion catwalk (along with magazines and numerous advertisements) has been littered with super-skinny models that we look up to as our definition of sexy. And they are sexy. However, there’s a whole other world of people living in different body types that are equally as sexy and worthy of walking our runways. The ‘Skinny’ On My Own Body I was actually closest to the super-skinny model body when I was about eleven years…
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The Secret Cost of Fashion You Didn’t Know About
What price are we willing to pay for the clothes that live on our bodies? How much is too much and is our vision of “affordable” askew due to a constant influx of things we don’t need? Sustainable fashion is often viewed as inaccessible due to high price points, but when we look at the cost per wear (CPW) we understand the value a bit more. “Cost per wear” refers to how many uses (or “wears”) you can get per item of clothing, so the more wears, the better. We also should factor in the cost of paying a living wage to all the workers that make our clothes. In…
