Wearable stories

Materials

Wea­ra­ble Sto­ries use a mix of natu­ral and arti­fi­cial materials.

The shirts, dres­ses and some trou­sers con­sist of 100% vis­co­se. Vis­co­se is made of vege­ta­ble mate­rials, namely bam­boo or wood pulp, but unfor­tu­na­tely it also needs che­mi­cals during pro­duc­tion. This is the only way to make the bam­boo fibres soft enough to be pro­ces­sed into yarns and tex­ti­les. Loo­king for a more sus­tai­na­ble alter­na­ti­ve? Choo­se Ten­cel. This mate­rial can also be found repea­tedly in the Wea­ra­ble Sto­ries collections. 

The­re are also many synthe­tic mate­rials (pol­yes­ter, span­dex, rayon, elas­ta­ne) in the collec­tions. In the AW20 collec­tion, about 20% of the trou­sers, 30% of the shirts and 10% of the dres­ses are made of a man-made fabric. The­se are made from petro­leum and lea­ve micro­plas­tics behind when washed. We are the­re­fo­re happy to read that Wea­ra­ble Sto­ries wants to redu­ce its sha­re of synthe­tic mate­rials in the futu­re.

Would you like to buy a pie­ce of Wea­ra­ble Sto­ries? Choo­se the Ten­cel pie­ces, you have plenty of choi­ce of dif­fe­rent trou­sers, T‑shirts and cheer­ful dres­ses in this sus­tai­na­ble material. 

Vegan

Wea­ra­ble Sto­ries uses Mohair, a wool made from Ango­ra goats, for its wool jum­pers in the 2020 win­ter collec­tion. Des­pi­te many advan­ta­ges, it is not the most ani­mal-friendly pro­duct. The many scan­dals make it pain­fully clear in what poor con­di­tions the ani­mals are kept. The brand is not clear about the wor­king con­di­tions in which the ani­mals have lived. 

Working conditions

Wea­ra­ble sto­ries want to make a pro­duct as fair as pos­si­ble and the­re­fo­re coope­ra­tes with dif­fe­rent manu­fac­tu­rers in Por­tu­gal, Poland, Roma­nia, Italy and Mace­do­nia. The brand stri­ves for long-term colla­bo­ra­tions with their manu­fac­tu­rers. They visit each fac­tory to make sure that good wor­king con­di­tions and fair wages can be gua­ran­teed. We are curious as to the exact ways they check and gua­ran­tee this.

Business model

The brand grants high dis­counts throughout the sea­son and does not con­tri­bu­te to the phi­lo­sophy of abo­lishing sales and the transition to a truly slow fashion industry as oppo­sed to the beau­ti­ful time­less collections.