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Organic Eco Clothing

Can you help save the world by buying clothes? You can when they are organic or recycled. When you purchase plus size organic clothing, you reduce the use of toxic and persistent chemicals on the farms and help improve the environment for everyone.  Natural and organic fiber fabrics are processed with as little harmful impact on the environment as possible. 

When you buy plus size clothes made from recycled materials, those materials are not contributing to land-fills or environmental degradation such as burning. 

With today's concerns of global warming and depletion of the world's resources dominating the news, many consumers are gravitating toward clothing made from organic and recycled materials.   

For example, conventionally grown cotton is one of the most heavily sprayed field crops in the world.  Nearly a quarter of the world's total insecticide consumption--and 10 percent of its pesticides--is devoted to the production of cotton. Sprayed from the air, these highly toxic pesticides often drift over large areas--houses, roads, and water sources, resulting in water and soil contamination, as well as danger to wildlife and human health. Cotton is also a food crop: cottonseed oil is used in snack foods, and cottonseed is used to feed beef cattle.    

There's also the disturbing use of formaldehyde, frequently found in wrinkle-free cotton and permanent press items. Formaldehyde has several harmful properties and can cause skin reactions and eye, nose and throat irritation.

Certified organic cotton is cotton grown without the use of harmful pesticides, herbicides or artificial fertilizers. Its cultivation uses beneficial bugs and manure in place of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. It is also free of formaldehyde finishes. Cotton grown organically for less than a three-year period is termed "transitional"; and "green," or "unbleached," cotton is processed without chemicals but not grown organically.

The organic clothing or Eco Fashion industry has come a long way quickly, just 10 years ago, it was comprised of a small group of companies that sold their wares to local health food stores. Organic fabrics were au naturel, but also colorless and shapeless, in a small range of sizes, with a bland look and limited appeal to the customer.

Now Eco-Fashions can be made of “peace silk” (from silk worms allowed to live their natural life spans), bamboo (which by the way Bamboo Fabric is naturally antimicrobial, and will not harm those with skin sensitivities), wool, milk blends, coconut shells and hemp, as well as organic cotton; cashmeres from free-range animals and unorthodox concoctions derived from foodstuffs such as corn and even pineapple.

Recycled clothes can be from vintage Japanese kimonos, recycled two-liter soda bottles that are processed and spun into yarn and eventually knitted into fabric; and recycled cashmere yarn culled from the spinning factories, which usually dump it.

You can find sweaters, dresses, pants, shirts, skirts and accessories in organic and recycled materials.  There is even a swimwear line, made from a Brazilian tree sap to formulate a Lycra spandex-like material embellished with natural coconut shell and Amazon seeds. And the best part, these new Eco- Fashions look beautiful, fashionable and smart; and they come in all sizes; including plus.  So think GREEN, think ENVIROMENT and have beautiful comfortable clothes that look fabulous.