Sustainability

Sustainability

Did you know the fashion industry is one of the biggest industries to have waste in landfills and emit greenhouse gas emissions?

We are proud to carry brands that are doing their part to help our environment. We believe every small step makes a difference. 

What does sustainable fashion mean? Sustainable fashion is a term that includes using various methods during the creation, production and manufacturing of goods to help the environment. This could include sourcing and picking more natural fabrics, using less water or recycling water in manufacturing, using natural/ eco-friendly dyes, producing less or zero waste, recycling or reusing fabric scraps and using eco-friendly packaging. This also includes making sure factory workers are given a living wage and benefits.

At Devote, every item in the store is created by a brand that has one or more of the values below:

  • Sustainably Made
  • Eco-Friendly Methods
  • Ethically Made / Fair Trade
  • Vegan
  • Handmade
  • Natural Fabrics
  • Non Toxic
  • Made to Order / Small Batch
  • Gives Back
  • Minority Owned
  • Carbon Neutral 
  • And more 

Under the product description on each product page, there are badges showing what practices and values a specific items has.

 Some of our Brands:

 

  

 

Alternative Apparel: Alternative, now a part of Hanes, is committed to responsible manufacturing and use of eco-materials: 100% organic cotton (that is Global Organics Textile Standard-certified), and recycled polyester. Their Organics range is OEKO-TEX certified. And Hanes was awarded one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2021 by Ethisphere.com. 

- Source: AlternativeApparel.com and Hbisustains.com

Boyish Jeans: Boyish is committed to making sustainable products. Their jeans are “produced with sustainable fabrics and washes through an environmentally-friendly cruelty-free process”- boyish.com. The products go through a non-toxic process, and the brand uses non-toxic dyes that are plant based. They are also OEKO-TEX standard 100 approved. Boyish also uses PETA approved vegan denim, recycled fabrics, deadstock fabrics, and use Tencel Lyocell and Tencel X Refibra Lyocell. They are carbon neutral, energy efficient and much more. 

- Source: boyish.com

  

Richer Poorer: RicherPoorer continues to find more ways each day to being more conscious as a brand. Their range of sustainable garments use organic fabrics and recycled materials. For their best selling fleece collection, “on average, each garment saves 40 plastic bottles from landfills in a process that reduces carbon dioxide emissions, energy, and our use of petroleum.” - Richer-Poorer.com. They also started using Pima Cotton which lasts 50% longer in washes, is hypoallergenic, and does not pill.

They are also part of 1% for the Planet, which is an organization that includes businesses that give a percentage of their sales to environmental causes.

-Source: richer-poorer.com 

 

Girlfriend Collective: Girlfriend items are made from recycled fabrics like RPET (recycled polyester) and recycled post-consumer bottles. Other fabrics used are ECONYL yarn, recycled fishing nets, and recycled nylon and spandex. Their tees are make of 100% cupro which is a “delicate fiber made from waste the cotton industry leaves behind.”- girlfriend.com. Their factory is SA8000 certified which means they use Fair Trade in their factories.

- Source: girlfriend.com