we are revolution
Where something's made,
how far it and it's components have traveled,
by whom it's been made,
under what conditions,
and of what materials it's been made
are all important.
As local, as safe, as fair, as respectful, as high quality, as sustainable as possible are manufacturing values we honor and urge curiosity about.
how far it and it's components have traveled,
by whom it's been made,
under what conditions,
and of what materials it's been made
are all important.
As local, as safe, as fair, as respectful, as high quality, as sustainable as possible are manufacturing values we honor and urge curiosity about.
To change systems that pollute, enslave, underrepresent and disempower first we need to acknowledge these injustices.
Female fueled and focused industries like fashion and beauty are in a unique position to affect great change and you and your daily decisions are a huge part of that truth and solution seeking process.
Themis and Thread creates safe online communities like Spirited Style Support where you can explore, participate, celebrate and learn. We also offer sustainable style solutions like Ready to Wear, Vintage and Custom Fashion; And we take great care not to harm anyone or anything in the process. Our dedication to American, Canadian and Mexican made components within our vertically integrated studio in New York State's Finger Lakes Region allows us to responsibly design, drape, draft, cut and sew sustainable styles. We partner with other ethical manufacturers and always offer free shipping.
Other important pieces to the sustainable style puzzle are vintage fashion and safer skincare and cleaner cosmetics!
Female fueled and focused industries like fashion and beauty are in a unique position to affect great change and you and your daily decisions are a huge part of that truth and solution seeking process.
Themis and Thread creates safe online communities like Spirited Style Support where you can explore, participate, celebrate and learn. We also offer sustainable style solutions like Ready to Wear, Vintage and Custom Fashion; And we take great care not to harm anyone or anything in the process. Our dedication to American, Canadian and Mexican made components within our vertically integrated studio in New York State's Finger Lakes Region allows us to responsibly design, drape, draft, cut and sew sustainable styles. We partner with other ethical manufacturers and always offer free shipping.
Other important pieces to the sustainable style puzzle are vintage fashion and safer skincare and cleaner cosmetics!
fashion revolution
On April 24th 2013 the world's deadliest clothing factory accident injured over 2,000 garment workers and killed 1,138 people.
Over 1,000 people died, but their deaths gave birth to a Fashion Revolution.
This tragedy also inspired many to do better by making changes in our daily lives.
Over 1,000 people died, but their deaths gave birth to a Fashion Revolution.
This tragedy also inspired many to do better by making changes in our daily lives.
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The deadly Rana Plaza factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh was a wake up call. Designer Jesse Junko Beardslee decided then and there to focus on creating fashion with locally sourced sustainable materials to add ethical ready to wear to her custom design offerings.
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Where our clothes are made and by whom matters. Garment workers overseas are often in exploitative and dangerous work environments using environmentally harmful materials and methods in unregulated factories. By being curious and asking "Who Made My Clothes" we can help untangle this mess.
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For more support find us on Instagram and Facebook and join our Private Facebook Group Spirited Style Support!
fight with fashion
As a Sustainable Style Advocate, Designer Jesse Junko Beardslee loves to share about ways we can all #FightWithFashion!
Learn more from our Fashion Revolution Day video,
a great article by Journalist Shannon Harts from her Blog Need For Nature
and get our Fashion Revolution Action and Education Guide emailed to you today!
Learn more from our Fashion Revolution Day video,
a great article by Journalist Shannon Harts from her Blog Need For Nature
and get our Fashion Revolution Action and Education Guide emailed to you today!
fight POLlUTION
There are so many ways that the fashion industry contributes to pollution. One way that it absolutely does not have to is by using cleaner, more sustainable fabrics. Fabric production is a complicated industry in and of itself but when that fabric becomes clothing and is washed in a washing machine micro plastics shed into the water system if that fabric includes polyester or other oil based fiber content. Not to mention the possible harms of off gassing onto our skin while wearing these materials. Natural fibers are all clean either though, cotton is among the most heavily pesticide sprayed crop in the world! Sustainable solutions exist and identifying them within your wardrobe just takes a moment peeking at the fiber content tag.
fight with fiber
There are so many amazing new textiles emerging that are designed to replace polluting processing, but one of the easiest and cheapest ways you can fight with fiber is by washing your clothing only when it's dirty since clothing and textiles account for 35% of microplastic contamination.
Global Organic Textile Standard or GOTS Certified Organic Cotton is among the gold standard of sustainable materials -
but there's much debate and controversy surrounding "truly sustainable" materials in a time when counterfeiting organic cotton and greenwashing exists! Some of Themis and Thread's favorite environmentally friendly materials are organic cotton, linen, hemp, bamboo, modal, lyocell, recycled fabrics, veg tanned leather, cork, wine and other vegan leathers, to name a few.
Global Organic Textile Standard or GOTS Certified Organic Cotton is among the gold standard of sustainable materials -
but there's much debate and controversy surrounding "truly sustainable" materials in a time when counterfeiting organic cotton and greenwashing exists! Some of Themis and Thread's favorite environmentally friendly materials are organic cotton, linen, hemp, bamboo, modal, lyocell, recycled fabrics, veg tanned leather, cork, wine and other vegan leathers, to name a few.
FIGHT WASTE
Fighting for recycling can feel like an uphill, thankless battle. But like any other exercise in responsibility you've got to do it for the cause, not the applause! On average Americans throw away 80 pounds of fabric every year,
not donates,
throws away.
There are so many reasons you should never throw fabric items away. There are also so many solutions, even for clothing and fibers you wouldn't think anyone would ever want! Fashion Revolution Week 2019 we partnered with Blue Jeans Go Green and Habitat for Humanity for a Denim Drive showcasing the denim recycling process we can all participate in! Fight with Fashion by recycling your clothing/fabric/fiber waste.
not donates,
throws away.
There are so many reasons you should never throw fabric items away. There are also so many solutions, even for clothing and fibers you wouldn't think anyone would ever want! Fashion Revolution Week 2019 we partnered with Blue Jeans Go Green and Habitat for Humanity for a Denim Drive showcasing the denim recycling process we can all participate in! Fight with Fashion by recycling your clothing/fabric/fiber waste.
fight with preservation
Host a Clothing Swap
Donate your unwanted clothing, fabric and other fiber goods.
(Anything that isn't wet or dirty can be sorted and used as fiber fill and rags - even that lone holey sock! Check first, but many places sort and sell textile waste to be used for things like vehicle seats. Thrifty Shopper here in New York State accepts textile waste.)
Recycle your old jeans into denim insulation
We organized a Fashion Revolution Week Denim Drive that diverted over HALF A TON of denim from the landfill just in our local community!
Create Eco Bricks with any bits of unrecyclable thread, fabric or waste!
This is a project we participate in to repurpose our thread and fabric scraps from the sewing studio.
Make paper
Upcycle existing garments!
Donate your unwanted clothing, fabric and other fiber goods.
(Anything that isn't wet or dirty can be sorted and used as fiber fill and rags - even that lone holey sock! Check first, but many places sort and sell textile waste to be used for things like vehicle seats. Thrifty Shopper here in New York State accepts textile waste.)
Recycle your old jeans into denim insulation
We organized a Fashion Revolution Week Denim Drive that diverted over HALF A TON of denim from the landfill just in our local community!
Create Eco Bricks with any bits of unrecyclable thread, fabric or waste!
This is a project we participate in to repurpose our thread and fabric scraps from the sewing studio.
Make paper
Upcycle existing garments!
fight corruption
Fighting for justice means so much to so many but the $2.5 TRILLION fashion industry has long offended the planet and humanity with rampant unregulation and vulgar toxicity. From the greedy, greasy profiteers who knowingly exploit women and children,
(40 million people live in modern slavery today)
to the miserly masters letting the environment pick up the bill so their bottom line doesn't suffer, the fashion industry's "business as usual" means people and planet suffer at the cost of doing business.
In this capitalist democracy rife with oligarchs and archaic systems, let's meet them where they are and fight with justice.
(40 million people live in modern slavery today)
to the miserly masters letting the environment pick up the bill so their bottom line doesn't suffer, the fashion industry's "business as usual" means people and planet suffer at the cost of doing business.
In this capitalist democracy rife with oligarchs and archaic systems, let's meet them where they are and fight with justice.
fight with justice
To change systems that pollute, enslave, underrepresent and disempower we need to acknowledge these injustices and shine light on the darkest corners. International textile and garment manufacturing supply chains separate Westernized people from destitute indigenous/people of color working in factories a world away. In many ways poor white people are pitted against poor brown people in this complex and cruel system, which generated around $300 billion in 2020 globally. Women and children have a long history of running the fashion and textile industries for menial pay while men collect the profits. Gendered wage disparity hardly matters when
over 80% of all garment workers are female; And fashion trails only tech in being the world's most enslaving industry.
We have compiled a lot of information, history and future focused tools that you can have emailed directly to you when you sign up for our Fashion Revolution Action and Education Guide!
The United States Judicial and Legislative systems are available to every single one of us and our participation matters. Industry has proven itself inept at self regulation and clear laws with with social and financial repercussions can send waves through the business sector. It can also be an enormous asset to future focused businesses.
New York State's Proposed Fashion Act
sponsored by Assemblywoman Anna Kelles and Senator Allesandra Biaggi could be a game changer!
New York State's Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act
has the power to not just affect New York but our entire country and the global industry as it refers to any large ($100 million annual revenue) fashion businesses working within the state - a global fashion capitol. Retailers and manufacturers will be held responsible for disclosing environmental accounting, supply chain information, labor safety due diligence, set and achieve science based targets regarding climate change and identify and plan mitigation of risks publicly or face fines and acknowledgment of their failures.
over 80% of all garment workers are female; And fashion trails only tech in being the world's most enslaving industry.
We have compiled a lot of information, history and future focused tools that you can have emailed directly to you when you sign up for our Fashion Revolution Action and Education Guide!
The United States Judicial and Legislative systems are available to every single one of us and our participation matters. Industry has proven itself inept at self regulation and clear laws with with social and financial repercussions can send waves through the business sector. It can also be an enormous asset to future focused businesses.
New York State's Proposed Fashion Act
sponsored by Assemblywoman Anna Kelles and Senator Allesandra Biaggi could be a game changer!
New York State's Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act
has the power to not just affect New York but our entire country and the global industry as it refers to any large ($100 million annual revenue) fashion businesses working within the state - a global fashion capitol. Retailers and manufacturers will be held responsible for disclosing environmental accounting, supply chain information, labor safety due diligence, set and achieve science based targets regarding climate change and identify and plan mitigation of risks publicly or face fines and acknowledgment of their failures.
UPDATE
New York State's Fashion Act is currently being rewritten and will hopefully be more inclusive and adaptable. While we wait to hear more here are some great articles about the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act published earlier in 2022:
Finger Lakes Times
yahoo!Finance
NY Times
Vogue
There are existing pieces of legislation that help keep us protected and attempt to guide the fashion industry. New York and California often lead the United States in environmental and economic responsibility and because they are international business capitals their policies impact the world. California's Garment Worker Protection Act
has an active petition you can sign and
California's Transparency in Supply Chain Act strives to serve us all.
New York State's Fashion Act is currently being rewritten and will hopefully be more inclusive and adaptable. While we wait to hear more here are some great articles about the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act published earlier in 2022:
Finger Lakes Times
yahoo!Finance
NY Times
Vogue
There are existing pieces of legislation that help keep us protected and attempt to guide the fashion industry. New York and California often lead the United States in environmental and economic responsibility and because they are international business capitals their policies impact the world. California's Garment Worker Protection Act
has an active petition you can sign and
California's Transparency in Supply Chain Act strives to serve us all.