Brummet's Conscious Blog

 -- Product Review -- Samantha Weinman, fashion media and marketing manager of American Apparel , first connected with me back on April 5 th re: reviewing their new sustainable line of clothing. Amazingly the products arrived just 6 days later on April 11 th , delivered to my door. Packaging consisted of one thick plastic shipping bag that contained 4 items – each item had a small brown paper label made of 100% recycled paper… both the paper label, shipping bag and even the small plastic tag attaching the label to the product are recyclable. All of their clothing is manufactured in the US, where environmental standards and employee rights are more stringent than other countries outside of North America. This also means that there is less fossil fuels spent in shipping the fabric to the manufacturer and then the product to the consumer. I was thrilled to find that the soft yellow hat and autumn orange sweater were made from pre-consumer cotton fibe...