100% Organic clothing (not underwear) for adults?

[Pen]

I'm looking for sources. Could be a size XL children's perhaps. But otherwise Men's small and Women's medium or large is what is needed. Items needed are relatively nicer shirts (polo, button down, etc., not formal dressy), pants (jeans or similar would be great). I don't want anything that is part organic cotton and part synthetic or recycled plastic bottles, or printed with plastic designs on the front.  Basically we are looking for nice everyday wear such as could be worn to co-op classes or similar and look like it fits with what everyone else is wearing, but in 100% organic versions.

 

Loungewear (soft unstructured pants, perhaps with drawstring waist, T-shirts) would also be useful for while at home.

[prairiewindmomma]

Patagonia is one of my favorite brands.

http://www.patagonia.com/us/shop/organic-cotton?k=4U

 

 

[Guest]

Synergy

Maggie's organics

Blue Canoe

Prana

Soul-Flower

 

[MercyA]

Given the prices of organic clothing, I would look on eBay. It looks like there is quite a bit available in women's clothing and some in men's size small clothing.

[Pen]

Patagonia  especially looks like it has the right sort of stuff. But all these ideas are helpful. Thanks!

[fdrinca]

American Apparel has organic shirts at a great price point. Bonus: made in USA. Con: hugely misogynistic.

 

http://store.americanapparel.net/search/?Ntt=organic

[eternalsummer]

earthcreations

 

http://www.earthcreations.net/index.php?main_page=index

 

Also this lady on Etsy is awesome: https://www.etsy.com/shop/blueridgestitches Although a fair amount of her stuff is 95% cotton/5% spandex or something similar

[lailasmum]

Are you happy to order internationally because John Lewis has quite a lot of organic cotton versions of normal menswear. www.johnlewis.com/search/men/_/N-50es?Ntt=organic+cotton&un_listpage=yes#page_loaded

[Pen]

Bummer. The Patagonia, like so many others, turned out that all their jeans even though they say 100% organic cotton have things like Coolmax polyester as 2%. So do a bunch of their shirts.

 

Search continues.

[eternalsummer]

http://www.rawganique.com/Womens/organic-cotton-denim-jeans.htm

 

http://store.rawganique.com/Organic-Cotton-Dress-Shirt-p/rg511-oc.htm

[Pen]

Are you happy to order internationally because John Lewis has quite a lot of organic cotton versions of normal menswear. www.johnlewis.com/search/men/_/N-50es?Ntt=organic+cotton&un_listpage=yes#page_loaded

 

 

Yes if I felt confident of getting something that would work. We used to have a Canadian source, but it also started mixing things so that they might be  recycled bottles say, and "ecoconsious" in that sense, mixed with the organic, but not what I was looking for which was 100% organic as to the whole garment. And also even for the few items that stayed 100% organic it got hard to get them shipped to US.

[Pen]

American Apparel has organic shirts at a great price point. Bonus: made in USA. Con: hugely misogynistic.

 

http://store.americanapparel.net/search/?Ntt=organic

 

 

Misogynistic in what way?

 

Also, do you know what the origin of the fiber/material is... Made in USA may just mean assembled here. The price is suspiciously low for if fiber were grown in USA. And does "Fine" mean extremely thin and insubstantial, sort of like an undershirt, not like an outer crew T-shirt?

Edited February 22, 2016 by Pen

[prairiewindmomma]

Bummer about the Patagonia.

 

I've always shopped locally at a store that is 100% natural fiber. Unfortunately, they don't have a website.

[fdrinca]

 

 

Misogynistic in what way?

 

Also, do you know what the origin of the fiber/material is... Made in USA may just mean assembled here. The price is suspiciously low for if fiber were grown in USA. And does "Fine" mean extremely thin and insubstantial, sort of like an undershirt, not like an outer crew T-shirt?

 

Great questions. Their wholesale page states that the organic fabrics are woven on site.

http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/fabrics.asp

 

The company has been in the news because of its advertising (highly stylized images of very young women), employees (again, very young women), and the general behavior of their former CEO. There's a reason I linked to only the organic fabrics page...it's pretty tame.

 

As for the weight of the shirts, the ones we have are outerweight, but I wear an undershirt or tank with everything, anyway, so YMMV.

[eternalsummer]

It is not legal to label something Made in USA unless the textiles are also produced here.  I doubt a company as large as American Apparel is flouting the law in this regard, but you never know I guess.

[Carol in Cal.]

If you sew, you can buy 100% organic cotton fabric from here:  http://www.vreseis.com/shop/foxfibre-colorganic-fabrics-from-japan

 

Note that this is so organic that it's not even dyed--the cotton is grown in these colors.

[Carol in Cal.]

If you sew  you can purchase 100% organic cotton here:  http://www.vreseis.com/shop/

 

Note that this takes 'organic' to a whole new level by exclusively using cotton that is grown in these colors, no dyeing at all.

 

The site also is a source of fiber for spinning, weaving, and knitting.

[Pen]

Do any of you have experience buying from Rawganique? If so, problem free, problems?

[Pen]

If you sew  you can purchase 100% organic cotton here:  http://www.vreseis.com/shop/

 

Note that this takes 'organic' to a whole new level by exclusively using cotton that is grown in these colors, no dyeing at all.

 

The site also is a source of fiber for spinning, weaving, and knitting.

 

 

That's great to know about!  I might be able to make something simple, like a simple skirt maybe, but not jeans.

[Pen]

It is not legal to label something Made in USA unless the textiles are also produced here.  I doubt a company as large as American Apparel is flouting the law in this regard, but you never know I guess.

http://consumerist.com/2013/12/11/how-american-must-a-product-be-to-be-labeled-made-in-the-usa/

 

 

THE CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK

The Textile Fiber Products Identification Act and Wool Products Labeling Act actually requires Made in USA labels on most clothing and other textile or wool household products if the final product is manufactured in the U.S. of fabric that is manufactured in the U.S., regardless of the country of origin of materials earlier in the manufacturing process. So an all-wool sweater may be made from wool that was grown entirely on another continent, but as long as the sweater itself is wholly made in the U.S., it gets the Made in USA label.

[eternalsummer]

Right, the textiles have to be manufactured here.

 

So for organic cotton, they could ship raw cotton grown somewhere else but the fabric (the textile) must be produced here.

[Pen]

http://www.rawganique.com/Womens/organic-cotton-denim-jeans.htm

 

http://store.rawganique.com/Organic-Cotton-Dress-Shirt-p/rg511-oc.htm

 

 

This looks my new best bet. Have you ever ordered from them? Good experience?

[eternalsummer]

I haven't; I just found them on a google search :)

 

I read some reviews online and they are iffy.

 

If you are willing to shell out $ you might try some sellers on Etsy; be sure to read feedback carefully.

 

 

 

[Pen]

Very frustrating. I wish Levis or LLBean would just have 100% organic as an option for their standard jeans, polos etc.

[Carol in Cal.]

That's great to know about!  I might be able to make something simple, like a simple skirt maybe, but not jeans.

When this cotton was first developed, Levi's made it into denim jeans for men but not for women.  They did not take off at all, and I don't think they have been made for a long time.

 

I remember thinking, WTH?  It's women who might buy green jeans, not men.  Stupid Levi's.