The Life Story of Your T-Shirt: Retail

Updated Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Think about what influences you when you buy a t-shirt. What factors are important to you? Do you know or care how sustainable the t-shirt that you're buying is?

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Retailers and designers face many challenges in working to improve the sustainability of our clothes, both social or ethical and environmental. Read these blogs to understand more about the challenges they face and some of the things they are doing to address these challenges. You can also have a go at the poll and consider some of the factors that influence your choices when you buy a t-shirt.

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

Derek Jackson gives the retail perspective on the impact of ethical trading in the clothing market.

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Sustainable Design – Innovative design techniques

Designer Rhiannon Hunt explains what the challenge of producing sustainable clothing adds to her experience of designing t-shirts.

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George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?

Catherine Watkins from George at Asda explains what the large business does to support sustainability.

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The Life Story of Your T-Shirt: Retail

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

Sustainable Design – Innovative design techniques

George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?