Reduce Your Carbon Footprint With Vintage Fashion

11 Jan

As you can read here, eBay's Green Team readily encourage purchasing of second-hand items as 'eco'. When I was a kid, there was nothing good, or cool, or anything about charity shops. Vintage and second-hand clothing was a license to be bullied at school. Ah, how the trendy have the last laugh.

According to an advert they placed in an issue of Marie Claire last year, choosing new-to-you leather shoes saves more energy than an average household uses in a day. Buying a pre-loved silk dress saves 95% of the CO2 needed to make a new one, and choosing a previously-owned leather clutch saves as much energy as not watching TV for 3 days straight.