In our marketplace today, there are so many wonderful choices when it comes to purchasing wearables (ie. t-shirts). For the athlete, the synthetic wicking materials have been a huge success, but the average person purchasing t-shirts, I believe organic cotton is the way to go.
We want to help our customers choose organic. Our goals is to do our best to protect the environment as well as people’s health, going organic is one small way for us to accomplish this.
The traditional cotton garment is made of fiber that originates from cotton plants grown on cotton farms. These farms rely on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. From what I am understanding about the process, it uses a lot more water than the organic farming process.
Organic farming restores and builts up the soil. The organic content is increased, this increases the soil’s water-sustaining ability. Using less water and having healthy soil is a good thing. This soil is not polluted by synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. It appears that far less water runs off the organic fields.
In a piece that I read by one of our sources for wearables, they gave some interesting statistics:”Conventionally grown cotton consumes 25% of the insecticides and more than 10% of pesticides used in the WORLD today! Conventional farming devours roughly 150 grams of pesticides and fertilizers to produce enough cotton for a single T-shirt”. I think these statistics are enough to make us look at the organic alternatives.
Organic ring-spun cotton wearables are incredibly soft. They come in lots of styles and colors. Many of the shirts are in natural off white while others are made with non-toxic dyes and inks. A couple of our best vendors have beautiful organic products: www.vantageapparel.com and bodekandrhodes.com. There are many more vendors that we have access to, these two are among our favorites.
Check it out!