Sustainability

How To Properly Care For Your Clothes

How To Properly Care For Your Clothes

Clothes have the power to give you confidence, but if your favorite cashmere sweater and high-waisted jeans aren’t being cared for properly (think: stretched out, pilling, and faded as can be), chances are you’re not going to feel your best in them. Like anything else you own, clothes need to be cared for--and we don’t just mean washed or dry cleaned. In many cases, when we realize that a white T-shirt isn’t so white or those black jeans are now an awkward shade of grey, we’re quick to buy a new version. But, did you know there are more sustainable and cost-effective ways to maintain the luster of your wardrobe? It seems overly simple, but offering your clothes the TLC they need will make them last longer. That means storing, washing, and wearing them properly. In the interest of getting the most out of your wardrobe, here are ten tips to prolong the life of your clothes.

6 Sustainable Clothing Brands You Need To Know

6 Sustainable Clothing Brands You Need To Know

If you’re looking to create a sustainable and eco-friendly wardrobe, then you’ll be happy to learn that being a conscious shopper doesn’t mean you have to compromise style. These days, more and more brands are pledging to reduce their footprint on the environment since fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world. And since sustainability is a trend with staying power that we can certainly get behind, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite eco-friendly clothing brands (six to be specific). Here, the best brands to shop if ethical fashion is as important to you as looking incredible.

3 Ways Fast Fashion Contributes To Climate Change

3 Ways Fast Fashion Contributes To Climate Change

The ubiquity of fast-fashion has normalized impulse and occasion shopping but it isn’t just unproductive for building a quality, meaningful wardrobe—it’s also detrimental to our planet. Clothing is a necessity that each one of the seven billion people on earth interacts with, but fast-fashion specifically contributes to climate change and global warming in three major ways: it depletes our natural resources, pollutes our air with carbon emissions, and floods our landfills with textile waste. Let’s dive in a little deeper to better understand how fast fashion impacts our environment and join us on this journey to fight the global climate crisis.

7 Eco-Friendly Tailors in Los Angeles

7 Eco-Friendly Tailors in Los Angeles

Let’s be real. When it comes to being an adult and pulling the trigger on dry cleaning and alteration services, most of us do not deserve gold stars. But the reality is: in order to get the longest wear out of the pieces that you invest in, you have to take care of them. And in order to create the capsule wardrobe of your dreams, you have to make the pieces that weren’t built for you, work on your frame. Here is a list of 7 eco-friendly dry cleaning and alteration services in Los Angeles that we love. With coupons galore, and the sweet offer of free contactless pickup & delivery, you’re sure to find a spot that’s close to home, and fits the (dry cleaning) bill!

Our Stance on Sustainability

Our Stance on Sustainability

On average, a single American throws away a whopping 70 pounds of clothing each year, and of those 15 million tons that get tossed out globally, only a measly 15% get recycled. That means that the other 85% of textiles that *don’t* make it to your used clothing store shelves, have enough heft to fill the Sydney Harbor annually. That’s...a lot of discarded ex-boyfriend t-shirts. At dressCODE, our goal is to minimize the environmental impacts of fashion consumption, once closet at a time.