5 items that I wear:

1. Adidas pullover: 70% Cotton, 30% Polyester (Recycled)

2. Nike Pullover: 80% Cotton, 20% Polyester
3. Nike work out shirt: 92% Polyester, 8% Spandex
4. PINK shirt: 60% Cotton, 40% Modal
5. Adidas joggers: 100% Polyester

5 items I don’t wear as much:

1. Alya shirt: 96% rayon, 4% spandex

2. Target skirt: 63% cotton, 23% Polyester, 11% rayon, 3% Lycra (Spandex)
3. Russel athletic sweatshirt: 52% Polyester, 48% Cotton
4. AE Jeans: 71% cotton, 21% Viscose, 7% Polyester, 1% Elastane
5. Fruit of the loom shirt: 50% cotton, 50% polyester

The choices I have been making to be more sustainable have been buying less from fast fashion stores

like forever 21, fashion nova and cheap online stores like shein and romwe. I believe in buying less, but

with more quality items that will last awhile opposed to f21 garments that don’t keep their appearance

after one wash. I also shop heavily at thrift stores and buy used clothing from peers. Buying from thrift

stores and not from fast fashion stores helps reduce the waste in the landfills. Ways that I could support

the sustainability movement would be supporting brands that follow those core beliefs. Just like Levi’s

line of “Water<Less”. I can also try to figure out the companies choice of dyeing their garments as

dyeing is one of the most harmful steps in textile production. Vat dyeing uses polluting heavy metals and

lots of water that ultimately isn’t good for our environment. Printing is the next biggest polluter from

the fashion industry. In textiles, the roller printer uses ink that emits gasses into our atmosphere. One

chemical that’s in use is Toluene, which is linked to all sorts of health issues like neurological damage,

birth defects, and damage to the organs and skin. It would be smarter to support the brands that use

digital and sublimation printing because they don’t use that. I also shop at H&M and I didn’t know this

beforehand but they also stopped the use of sandblasting jeans because it caused silicosis, a fatal lung

disease, in their workers who did the sandblasting.