Shopping with a conscience  for wild(ly) charitable fashion finds that give back.

Giving back is an important part of the sustainable fashion philosophy, and the first P in the triple-bottom-line philosophy (People, Planet, Profit). It’s one of the many ways that fashion can help contribute to a better world and you can vote with your dollars and support companies that are doing great work to help people across the globe. Charitable fashion is anything but boring, just take a look at these wilderness-inspired picks.

ASOS Africa Printed Hot Pants in Geo Print
These printed knicker shorts from the ASOS Africa collection look to traditional East African fabrics, including Kitenge and Kanga prints and hand-woven Kikoy, reworking them with a modern sporty aesthetic in a punchy acid color palette. These feature a vintage-inspired high waisted design with a contrast geometric print and neon colored trims. ASOS Africa is produced in collaboration with Soko and several small communities in Africa, enabling underprivileged communities to establish sustainable business through their local craftsmanship.
$43.49, ASOS

Not For Sale Limited Edition Leather Motorcycle Jacket
This limited edition leather jacket has been exclusively designed for Not For Sale, and proceeds from the line will benefit the organization’s work to combat human trafficking globally, prevent forced labor and end human trafficking. Exposed zippers toughen up this sleek two-tone leather jacket, while a classic notch lapel and epaulets lend structured details.
$599.99, Made For Good

Lemlem Mekina Roll Up Pants
Supermodel, actress and former World Health Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Liya Kebede started Lemlem in 2007, after discovering that traditional weavers in her native Ethiopia were losing their jobs due to a decline in local demand for their goods. Through producing fashions like these casual-cool roll up pants, she inspires economic independence in her native country and helps preserve the art of weaving. Hand made in Ethiopia.
$200, Lemlem

Rain Tees Tree of Life Tee
Rain Tees are ethically manufactured in the U.S. and Peru, providing stable jobs and great working conditions for those who make them. The company also donates school supplies to NGOs and schools in need across the world. This Tree of Life tee is illustrated by eleven year old Mariela of Peru. The tee displays a rain forest tree crying leaves that symbolize its tears because so many trees like this one are cut down for logging. She has also drawn fish that have died and lay floating in water polluted with oil from pipelines that leak illegally into the jungle and poison plants, animals and villages.
$36, Rain Tees

Rachel Roy Heart of Haiti Double Circle Hoops
The devastating earthquake of January 2010 has made it virtually impossible for Haitians to make a living. Proceeds from the sale of these delicately handcrafted earrings directly benefits the Croix-des-Bouquets Haitian artisans by allowing them to support their families with dignity and purpose. No two pieces are alike.
$32, Rachel Roy

Havainas and Baby Buggy Limited Edition Sandals
Flipflop company Havaianas has teamed up with Baby Buggy, a charity founded by Jessica Seinfeld, and celebrity moms like Courteney Cox, Nina Garcia, Rebecca Romijn, and Tori Spelling, to collaborate on this limited edition collection. Each pair is available in both adult and childrens sizes. 10% of sales will be donated directly to Baby Buggy to help provide families in need with essential equipment, products, clothing, and educational services for their infants and children.
$26, Havaianas

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To create Rain Tees, children in endangered rain forests in Ecuador, Brazil and Costa Rica are given powerful tools (crayons, paint, pencils) to show what is happening all around them.
While some children will come up with scenes depicting logging or oil drilling, others, despite all the negatives, some draw positive masterpieces like beautiful birds and lush trees.

Kids are often the most forgiving.

To add to all the good, the t-shirts are handmade right outside the Peruvian Amazon in Rain Tees family owned and vertically integrated factories, where they print using eco-friendly inks and dyes.

For this giveaway, a toucan drawing from Rene Gillermo of Tena, Ecuador is placed prettily upon an organic cotton t-shirt that you can wear with pride. His name and country are on the illustration because well, he’s the artist and artists should get credit.

The site says “Amazon toucans live in small flocks and are very playful birds that have courtship displays where both male and female birds throw berries at each other or play catch by tossing the berries to each other with their beaks. How’s that for a “˜play date?’ Sadly, these birds are highly endangered and more than 11 million are smuggled illegally from the Amazon every year and sold to collectors in the USA and abroad. More than 70 percent die in the horrible conditions of transit.”

Thanks to Rene, Rain Tees can call attention to the toucan’s plight through an honest and beautiful drawing.

Other amazing points about this company?

Ethical Manufacturing:  Rain Tees staff are paid 25 percent above average wages so health care and education come first for them and their families.

Every Rain Tee Educates: Rain Tees sponsors each child whose artwork is chosen for a Rain Tees design to attend school in their home country.

Every Rain Tee Plants A Tree: For every Rain Tee sold, a child in Costa Rica’s most threatened tropical rain forest receives a tree to plant through the educational non-profit Kids Saving the Rain Forest.

To learn more about what they’re doing and who is involved, go to the Rain Tees site.

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