Bamboo Styles

We’re coming to realize more and more that there’s a new set of standards being set in the fashion industry.  Standards of ethics, workers rights, environmental awareness; these standards will continue to gain popularity as conscious consumerism sweeps across the country (and hopefully the globe!).  For those like yourself, who take stock of their impact of the earth, wonder whose hands made their clothing and understand the times and decide to do something about it, you’re the pioneers.   There’s no doubt that we’re watching the face of consumerism change, not only as it slowly turns towards better practices, but also as the Internet has come into the picture.  To you reading this, it’s probably old news.  If you’re shopping for bamboo clothing on the Internet you’ve just proven the point!

We’re not hear to blow the environmentalist horn or be martyrs for some esoteric cause, actually if anything we’re pretty anti-esotericism when it comes to the world and the ethics of its commerce. Everyone should be informed.  It’s time to make the ethical way the only way and that doesn’t mean everyone joins a cause, it means everyone keeps living their normal lives, buying the normal things they wish to own with the subtlety of informed minds driving their purchasing power.  How simple!  Well, the principle is simple, but the lifestyle may prove to be a bit of a challenge due to the lack of businesses providing those kinds of goods.  But we hope we’ve made it a little easier for you to buy something you’re proud to own.  We’re on that same hunt—trying to surround ourselves with the necessary and not so necessary materials of life with out the haunt of those nagging questions…who made this, and where, and how?  So, happy hunting!  And keep checking back to see what we’ve got up our sleeve in 2008!!

Brittany Moore is a regular contributor to the Bamboo Styles blog and also functions as VP of Business Development.  She has an AFA in Fashion Design and Marketing from IADT-Detroit and resides in metro Detroit.