http://www.atu2blog.com/2005/08/25/fashion-minute/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.atu2blog.com/2005/08/25/fashion-minute/#comment-541 Beth Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.atu2blog.com/2005/08/25/fashion-minute/#comment-541 I share your frustration about designers and I can't wear Edun either, but then I'm not really their target market. However, there are a lot of ways we can support Edun's main goal of Fair Trade with our purchases -- that's the real point. There are fairly traded goods online at Global Exchange (plenty of clothing options there too --store.gxonlinestore.org/index.html), or we can visit a Ten Thousand Villages shop, order a catalog from A Greater Gift (www.serrv.org/), check the labels on the coffee at the supermarket, and so on. I came back from Africa totally sold on doing whatever I can with my buying patterns to support trade justice, and I'm glad Edun is breaking into high fashion with those principles, but given my budget I need to make my "shopping is politics" commitments at the kind of places I've listed. I share your frustration about designers and I can’t wear Edun either, but then I’m not really their target market. However, there are a lot of ways we can support Edun’s main goal of Fair Trade with our purchases — that’s the real point. There are fairly traded goods online at Global Exchange (plenty of clothing options there too –store.gxonlinestore.org/index.html), or we can visit a Ten Thousand Villages shop, order a catalog from A Greater Gift (www.serrv.org/), check the labels on the coffee at the supermarket, and so on. I came back from Africa totally sold on doing whatever I can with my buying patterns to support trade justice, and I’m glad Edun is breaking into high fashion with those principles, but given my budget I need to make my “shopping is politics” commitments at the kind of places I’ve listed.

]]> http://www.atu2blog.com/2005/08/25/fashion-minute/#comment-540 U2isABLE Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:24:00 +0000 http://www.atu2blog.com/2005/08/25/fashion-minute/#comment-540 Do you think for Fall that Edun would offer something along the lines of a size 12 for us US ladies who are "average" size? Last I tried to fit into something on the Edun line, one had to be as thin as Calista Flockart or Kate Moss. Why can't these designers actually create clothing that fits us "average" people? Gessh! Do you think for Fall that Edun would offer something along the lines of a size 12 for us US ladies who are “average” size? Last I tried to fit into something on the Edun line, one had to be as thin as Calista Flockart or Kate Moss. Why can’t these designers actually create clothing that fits us “average” people? Gessh!

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