Sustainable vegan message clothing (wear your values!)
Nobody wants a preachy vegan. But message clothing can be fun and positive. Not just sustainably-made but sharing your values in that you don’t wear fur, leather, wool or silk. Here are some good brands!
This tee has a vegan happy anthem!
For items with elastane or recycled polyester, launder in a microfibre filter (or buy 100% natural fabrics, far simpler!)
Donate unwanted clothing to small charity shops (not big ones that test on animals). Recycle damaged/stained clothing at textile banks (it’s shredded into insulation and other goods).
Vegan Happy Clothing (profits help the animals!)
Vegan Happy Clothing is a wonderful fashion brand, founded by a woman who rescues barnyard animals and sells casual clothing items with vegan messages, with profits helping to fund animal welfare. Check out these organic hoodies.
As a vegan clothing company, everything is free from wool, silk, leather or fur. The brand uses water-saving natural dyes, and there are petite and plus-size ranges. All reviews are 5-stars, and you get freepost return labels.
Check out the 100% organic men’s cotton shirts.
Charities supported including those that help pets and barnyard friends, Spanish greyhounds, horses, rabbits and many other creatures, along with a charity that helps dogs that live with homeless people.
Meet the ‘face of Vegan Happy Clothing!’
Soprano singer Annette Wardell (described as the ‘Kylie of Opera’ by Manchester Evening News) is the face of Vegan Happy Clothing. Born in Yorkshire to British/Cypriot parents, she studied at Royal College of Music and performed with Alfie Boe (to over 280 million viewers, when she sang at an FA Cup Final). Follow her on Instagram!
Vegan as folk (fun vegan message clothing)
Vegan as Folk is a fun affordable online store, with organic cotton casual clothing and hats for men, women and children. Family run, and all items sent in sustainable packaging. This sweatshirt is 100% organic cotton.
Some vegan clothing companies with graphic images and skulls etc, don’t exactly give the right impression or inspire others. But this company is fun, and uses peaceful positive and colourful messages.
Viva! (profits help an animal welfare charity)
Viva! is a Teemill shop, where everything is made from organic cotton, made with green energy and sent in zero waste packaging. You can even return items at end of life, to be made into new clothing.
And this brand is owned by the charity Viva!, so uses profits to campaign for barnyard friends. Whether that’s nutritional advice, investigative work or rescue (many creatures in awful situations have been rescued by them).
Plant Faced Clothing (positive messaging!
Plant Faced Clothing offers thoughtfully designed organic cotton t-shirts, all made with quality fabrics, and sent in zero-waste packaging. There is an easy ‘organic icon’ to choose only natural materials.
And each tee has a unique message to promote the plant-based lifestyle. And unlike most streetwear, this is all ethically made, by workers in safe conditions being paid a proper wage.
A few more vegan message clothing brands
- Heart Cure Clothing spreads the message peacefully with stylish activism clothing. This nonprofit helps animals and offers free (worldwide shipping) for minimum orders.
- Smug Vegan uses Teemill to print organic message clothing, with the founder donating 50% of all profits to causes that help UK animal charities. These have bold prints and designs and are quite unique – there is even a Dolly Parton range!
- Viva La Vegan
- Say it Vegan
Why vegans don’t wear silk (silkworms!)
Most people realise why vegans don’t wear fur, leather or wool, but what about silk? Acually most silkworms are boiled for the industry. Those used in industry have been genetically altered to not be able to survive in the wild.
Silk production kills around 420 billion to over 1 trillion silkworms each year, as it takes around 5,500 silkworms to produce just 1 kg of silk.
Billions of silkworms also die due to pesticides, before the harvest. Male moths are often kept frozen (in order to mate multiple times), while female moths are sometimes crushed for disease testing, after laying eggs.
Investigations by Beauty Without Cruelty in India, found that many ‘ahimsa silk moths’ were crushed after laying eggs, and males were refrigerated and reused, until they die or are discarded. And surplus larvae also starve to death.
