One of my little sartorial idiosyncrasies is that I seldom wear pants. I hardly even wear skirts actually, and it's more like a dress every day. My favorite look right now is a 1950s chartreuse cashmere coat worn with a short dress and my new riding boots (I wore last year's pair into the ground, literally, mostly stomping around Paris, London and Antwerp in the fall). This carefree, bold number would be just the thing for all of the above and best of all, it's vintage, which is mostly what I wear. I'd like to say I rarely buy new clothes because I prefer to seek out a glamorous shimmer of fashion's finer hour, or that I am a snob for quality, but really all one needs to be reminded of is that children who do not produce clothing for the Gap fast enough have rags stuffed in their mouths. And the Gap is hardly the worst offender, although it should be an effective change agent in its industry and there is simply no excuse for less. One of the reasons I quit the garment workers' union earlier in my career is because I got so tired of getting calls all day from concerned citizens who wondered what clothing they could buy without worrying about its unethical origins. And I was like, couture, possibly? It's endemic. And also, recycling is good.
["Moracco Dress," $17.99 at Vintage Amore]
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Posted by: chris | November 01, 2007 at 05:44 AM
ugh ugh ugh (the independent article not the dress!) this makes me only want to wear vintage (in the absence of a budget for couture) from now on. The worst part is that in that case the children were being forced to make childrens' clothes.
Posted by: Claire | November 01, 2007 at 07:16 AM