Virtual Try On for Sustainable Fashion
How virtual fitting rooms are revolutionizing eco- friendly shopping and reducing fashion waste.
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GlexicaSustainable Fashion and Virtual Try-Ons: A Perfect Match
When we want to understand sustainable clothing, we have to ask ourselves the following questions- How were my clothes made? Who made by clothes? How much was the environment harmed for its production? And so on
Right from the primary step of choosing the cloth materials to the tertiary practice of selling clothes, sustainable and ethical fashion is a multi faceted process which pays attention to all the above asked questions with the premier focus being to cause minimal environment harm.
What is greenwashing?
Many brands tend to advertise their garments by claiming them to be 'eco-friendly'. This statement very often is used solely for the purpose of catching the consumers attention, meaning little in reality. This is termed as green washing.
While this is in its very basic form unethical, it has a problem too. When we as buyers see the word 'sustainable' thrown around a lot, we are prone to loose trust in the authenticity of the statements. As a result consumers end up trusting only the reputed brands. So the other hundreds of smaller companies, trying to actually produce sustainable clothes will never get the trust they deserve.
So here's how we help them. We give them an opportunity to promote their clothes and give them appropriate benefits from our product.
Sustainable clothing is not a new thing. It has been with us with for many years but even now we have a long way to go.
Today, even the big brands which are selling their sustainable clothes, have their prices too high for the average buyer. So to reduce the showroom costs, they can always turn to virtual fitting rooms and continue to expand their ethical clothing further.
Our Role as Consumers
And while brands do their job towards sustainability, we as buyers have our own 'giving back' to do. Fashion industry and its close link to environment has the dire need for minimising wastage. this something we can effortlessly pull off by switching to virtual fitting room for try ons, to eliminate poor sizing problems and lack of realistic online fashion viewing.