Fashion Mujahid reporting back from the trenches.

Published: July 27, 2007, 2:05 am

Tags: fair trade, fashion jihad, sweatshop free clothing

The Fashion Mujahid marches on, and finds formidable foes lurking in her husband’s closet. I thought it was hard finding flattering, modest, comfortable clothing for women, even more so to find such clothing made with natural fibers and by workers who are treated and paid fairly. Dodging polyester ovens impersonating garments and designs by those who have never seen an actual woman’s body takes an eagle eye and lots of patience, so I named the effort the Fashion Jihad. I was single when I started the Fashion Jihad, so the challenge of getting my honey into his Friday best brings up some new issues for me, and obliged me to look at some old issues in a new way. Thankfully, my husband is a (mostly) willing subject. When my husband asked me to pull together an outfit for him one Friday morning, I was confronted with a distressing sight: ill-fitting, frayed, unflattering casual wear, the worst of which was a T-shirt with a fist-sized hole. That he actually considered

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