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Stop hoarding: how to be closet conscious
Do you know how to be closet conscious? If you have clothes in your wardrobe with their labels still attached, or a Christmas jumper you’ll probably never wear again, then the answer is no! If you want to declutter your life, there is no better place to start than with the clothes on your back and the shoes on your feet! Shockingly 140 million worth of clothing goes to landfill here in the UK each year! Although textiles break down eventually, this is a major problem. Natural fibres such as cotton, wool and linen slowly decompose. However, when trapped in a landfill site they start to release harmful gases such…
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What are retailers doing to reduce Modern Slavery within their supply chains?
Modern Slavery is a heinous and often hidden crime. It includes slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking. The impact can be devastating for the victims. Modern slavery can be found within companies supply chains. Although you would think slave labour is in the past it still very much alive all around us! We also expect slave labour to occur elsewhere than the UK. However, unfortunately this is not the case. In 2016, 3,805 potential victims were identified and referred in the UK. In the year to March 2017 the police in England and Wales recorded 2,255 modern slavery crimes. However, many more crimes and victims go undetected.…
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Brave and braless – how feminism hit the 70s
Today, us women are feeling more empowered to go braless, due to comfort, health related issues and self -acceptance. It has also became an increasing trend for us millennials due to, #freethenipple which was a campaign started in 2012. The campaign was to raise awareness of women’s equality and rights. It was to reduce the stigma attached to our breasts being sexualised. Also for practical reasons such as, breast feeding to become more acceptable, even though it’s the most natural process on earth! Right? Why should men be allowed to have their nipples exposed and not women? Of course, Feminism didn’t just start there. It goes all the way back…
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Top 10 gender bending fashion brands of 2020
In celebration of LGBTQIA history month, we’ve created our top 10 gender bending fashion brands to look out for in 2020. But first things first, are you a gender bender? A gender bender is a person who disrupts, or “bends”, our stereotypical gender roles. Gender bending is sometimes a form of social activism undertaken to destroy rigid gender roles and defy sex-role stereotypes. With society swiftly evolving, fashion will follow! Us IGen’s, are refusing to accept the social norms. We’re stripping back the stereotyping of genders. There is so much more awareness of gender fluidity, and brands have had to embrace it. Coming from an Irish background, I grew up with the traditional women…
