Style Edit: Earth Day 2019

Happy Monday!

Today is Earth Day!

If you follow me on social you know that I have been sharing about sustainable fashion all month long for Earth Day.

I've been a sustainable girl before it was sexy. Lol.

Now a lot of the eco-concious, sustainable brands are expensive. I'm a girl on a budget and many of you are as well. I have student loans, bills, 2 kids who grow like weeds and a 6'2 husband so there is no way I can, in good conscience, spend $200 dollars on an organic cotton shirt.

Shop: Sustainable Sales on Coupon Friday

What I do though is shop resell sites, consignment, and my mom and sister's closets. Back in my day this was called hand me downs which always had a bad connotation to it. (Not that I cared. Some hand me downs are incredible gems!) Enter the term upcycling to make us feel better about wearing something that isn't brand new.

My motto has been and always will be that once I buy it, its new to me. 

Now we are learning that hand me downs, hand me ups, upcycling, recycling or whatever you want to call it was the right track all along. With fashion being the number 2 most polluting industry behind petroleum we have to do something. We are killing natural resources and polluting our water ways and if we're not careful we won't have a sustainable world to live in. I don't want that for my kids, especially when I have the power to do something about it.

Read: Shop Sustainably @ The RealReal with Stella McCartney

I started shopping sustainably because I was selling my own clothes on Poshmark many years ago. It's a resell app that allows you to make money off of your old stuff. I've sold a lot of clothes I don't wear anymore (keeping them out of landfills) and gotten so much great stuff from there in return. Then I started to hear the word consignment, where you can send your stuff to someone to sell for you. It started out just as a high-end luxury items and now its everything.

Because I believe in shopping sustainably I have partnered with The RealReal, Fashionphile and Swap, all consignment shops, that I have shopped personally myself in order to show you that you can be on trend and shop sustainably at any price point. From $3 to $1,000s. Plus, I share finds from thredUp, Reformation (they take this sustainability stuff VERY seriously) and others because I know you are gonna shop, because I know I'm gonna shop. But we need to be mindful shoppers.

Be Mindful, Shop Sustainable

Now I haven't gone completely sustainable but I am doing my part to protect our planet and you should too. Besides, its fashionable!

Happy Shopping!

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The Fabulous Shoe Maven

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