Within society people want women to
be perfect: have the perfect body, the perfect hair, and the perfect clothes. But
everything comes at a cost in today’s age. In order to get healthy,
sweatshop-free, and chemical-free clothing you need to pay the extra fee. When
people typically think of what is ethical and what is not ethical to wear they
typically think of sweatshop brands and animal cruelty, however harming the
environment and harming ourselves creates unethical clothing conditions as
well.
Greenpeace.org has an article named
Toxic Threads that name off different brands and the toxic chemicals that are
used to manufacture their clothing. Such brands are Emporio Armani, Benetton,
Calvin Klein, Gap, and Victoria’s Secret. These chemicals not only harm the
environment when they are made but they also harm the person who is wearing them
such as a Gap Children’s raincoat that contains nonylphenol ethoxylate which
when broken down in the environment cause hormone disrupting chemicals to be
produced or Victoria’s Secret Women’s Underwear which contains a high level of
a toxic phthalates which can damage fertility for a woman or an unborn child
within the fetus. This organization (GreenPeace) is currently enforcing a
statement saying that any company using toxic and harmful chemicals must be
clear of them by 2020.
When
one thinks about harming an unborn child you would often think about having an
abortion, doing drugs, or drinking alcohol, but did you ever think that just
because a women wants to wear what’s considered to be “sexy” underwear she
could be harming the baby just as much? We all want to be just like a Victoria’s
Secret Angel, with just the perfect amount of sex appeal, but when it begins to
harm others do we really want to promote a company that can cause true harm. The
essay “Slaves to Fashion” by: Lauren Ashwell and Rae Langton talks about the
moral bonds that a fashionista holds. This essay states how people typically
feel bad for the hard core fashionistas because they don’t know the true harm
that they are causing. When it comes to things like what I have just explain
however I believe that very few people know about it. Victoria’s Secret is one
of the most known lingerie stores in the United States but do people really
know what they are buying?
I view
my two biggest primary values in life are security and tradition. I am a person
who wants to feel secure with where I am and with whatever I am doing. This is
how I perform my best. I need to have the people around me who make me feel most
comfortable with who I am and I need to know that if I fall I will be caught
and helped right back up. With security comes a chance to become your best
self. I believe I feel so much for the Victoria’s Secret issue because that
poor unborn child isn’t secure just because of its mother wanting to feel sexy.
I am also a big person when it comes to tradition. Traditions are what I base
my life around, what people have done in the past centuries I want to look forward
to doing, to getting married, and having children. But its not just the
traditions of our ancestors that intrigues me it’s the small family traditions
as well. I love being able to count on my family to be celebrating a first
birthday or getting together for dessert holidays. When we become selfish and
take those away from others we aren’t letting them shape themselves. A baby
needs to learn how to grow up with its family surrounding and not have to worry
about being sick because of a company.
Ethical Questions:
1.
When thinking of clothing should we have to be
worried about our future children when wearing them?
2.
Should we have to worry about the environment
just because we are wearing a specific brand?
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