YAY! Festival season is here! One of the best things about festivals is getting dressed up in cute, curated festival outfits. Whether a dress-up theme, an homage to an artist you want to see, or just the rare opportunity to wear something a little bit different – a festival is the ultimate fashion canvas. But the wear-once festival outfits on fast fashion sites are nearly always made from polyester.
Polyester is plastic. It is made from oil. And when you care about a warming planet, it’s just not cool anymore.
Three reasons to quit polyester festival outfits It’s bad for the planet Polyester is a type of plastic, which is made of oil. It’s cheap, so it’s massively overproduced. It releases microplastics into water when washing.
And it can’t be recycled. It’s bad for people Fast fashion is made by (mostly women) workers who are paid poverty-level wages for long hours in dangerous factories. It often ends up as waste exported abroad, polluting villages and beaches.
It’s bad for you Long, sundrenched days dancing in unbreathable plastic clothing will make you sweat pretty hard. This could be really bad for your health. Not ideal for the best days of your life.
Here’s how to make sure your festival fashion is as friendly to the planet as that stranger you met in the burrito queue. 1. Shop your wardrobe – and go vintage Resist the urge to buy new, just because you’re going to a festival.
Don’t buy into the wasteful culture of buying hauls of poor quality, n.
