The Ultimate Guide to More Sustainable Outerwear

Kowtow is a New Zealand brand that uses organic, fair trade cotton and non-toxic dyes to produce its clothes. It designs elegant, timeless womenswear, and also has a range of ceramics.

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A modern twist with a touch of elegance, the Shifting Jacket by Bianca Spender is a tailored blazer softened with an adjustable drawstring, it is perfect to slide into and throw on to wear day to night.

Bianca Spender is Australian fashion royalty, who has taken sustainability into the heart of her label. From smart workwear to statement gowns, this is a label that employs the highest standards of design and quality. Bianca Spender uses deadstock fabric and natural fibres, making all her garments in Ethical Clothing Australia-accredited factories.

Find the range in S-L.

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Spell is an Australian fashion brand inspired by far-off places, vintage treasures, and childhood memories. Its clothes are proudly designed and sampled in Byron Bay, and produced responsibly in factories around the world.

Most garments are available in sizes 2XS-2XL.

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The ANJELMS Project is an Australian clothing brand on a mission to help improve the lives of its makers. It celebrates traditional techniques, creating clothes that are naturally dyed and hand-loomed in India using more sustainable practices and limiting production to minimise waste.

Find most garments in XS-2XL.

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New Zealand brand ReCreate makes boutique clothing that transforms lives through fair employment, training, and empowerment. It uses lower-impact materials, including organic cotton, and incorporates textile offcuts to reduce waste.

Find most items in sizes XS-XL.

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Frske is an Australian womenswear brand whose design principles are grounded in utility, lower impact materials, soft silhouettes, and quality over quantity.

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A Melbourne-based outdoor apparel brand with sizing up to 5XL.

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Shop Amble Outdoors.

SeamsFriendly makes customisable clothing for women, men, and kids of all body types, sizes, and heights.

The brand’s product sizing is customisable (for womenswear: bust size range 26″-70″, waist size range 19″-63″, including petite, regular, and tall heights; and for menswear: chest size 34″ to 76″ and above with free custom sizing) to ensure you always find the perfect fit.  There’s a kids range (bust: 18″-28″, waist: 19″-26″) available too.

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Founded in 2016, Sukkhacitta works directly with mothers in Indonesian Villages, not factories, to make its clothing.

Find the range in sizes XS-L.

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SUI is an Indian label creating gorgeous womenswear in sizes 2XS-2XL, with every product crafted in its workshop in Delhi.

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OMNES is a more responsible and more affordable UK-based brand creating high quality womenswear. “We created OMNES to help change the way you shop, wear and think about clothing. And to encourage the rest of the industry to do it, too,” says the brand.

Find most items in sizes 6-20.

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PANGAIA designs products for living in any situation, sustaining your basic needs with smart technology and utilizing recyclable elements wherever possible.

Sizes range from XXS to XXL

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Responsible men’s clothing, selected with style in the UK. With the vision to support you to build a wardrobe of stylish and more sustainably-made menswear that is 100% vegan, Brothers We Stand is the go-to online store for anyone in the market for better menswear.

Sizes available are S-XL.

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non is PETA-Approved Vegan denim brand using recycled and organic materials.

The jeans are available in sizes 26-36.

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UK brand Komodo puts people and the planet first with its lower-impact range of menswear and womenswear. The label uses some more responsible materials including GOTS-certified cotton and hemp, and ensures that most of its suppliers pay a living wage to their workers.

Find most of the range in UK sizes 8-16.

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Burberry is a British luxury fashion house known for its timeless beige trench coats. The brand has good policies to monitor suppliers, but it still uses exotic animal products. Shopping Burberry second hand allows us to add items to our wardrobe without using additional resources in the manufacturing process, to keep clothes out of landfills, and to (re)discover Burberry’s unique and special pieces along the way.

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This heavy-duty parka will surely keep you warm this winter.

Wuxly Movement is a Canadian brand that produces outerwear designed to be a unique combination of tech-based and recycled materials for elite performance. Drawing on Canada’s heritage in quality manufacturing, the founder saw an opportunity to innovate using sustainable materials all while peacefully leaving animals out of the equation.

Find the range in 2XS-3XL.

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Handmade in Montreal, BEDI’s Extended Parka is a closet staple for all winters to come.

Canadian-brand BEDI creates handmade bags, knits and outerwear driven by a creative ethos to wear a better tomorrow. It promotes circularity with its careful selection of lower-impact materials, from upcycled airline seat leather and fishnets, to vegan cactus leather and more sustainably grown cotton. Driven by a slow fashion ethos, its pieces are grounded in utility and constructed for life, intended for you and beyond.

Find the range in sizes in XS-XL.

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Patagonia is a brand that truly lives and breathes the great outdoors. One of our favourites, this parka is made for weathering any kind of storm. Patagonia’s knee-length parka has a 100% recycled polyester shell and a removable, insulated hood.

The brand also has strong labour rights and is committed to reducing its energy use and emissions.

It stocks sizes XS-3XL.

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Shop Patagonia Pre-Owned @ Vestiaire Collective.

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Anchored in timeless design, Minimalist is a curated collection of women’s ready-to-wear pieces all made in New York and designed to be recycled at their end of life. It seeks to be part of the solution to make fashion more sustainable, using certified lower-impact materials and ensuring fair wage and work conditions in the local New York City factories it supports.

Find it in sizes XS-L.

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Canadian brand tentree plants ten trees for every item purchased to help regenerate ecosystems and provide planting jobs in communities around the world, and has already planted over 65 million trees. All tentree’s products are created with an Earth-first approach, meaning they’re made in fair, safe working conditions, and constructed using lower-impact and recycled materials.

tentree’s clothes are typically available from XS-XL.

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Outerknown is a US brand that offers surf and outdoor-inspired clothing.

Find the range in sizes XS-2XL.

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WE-AR4 is a New York-based brand using luxury deadstock and upcycled materials.

Find the range in sizes XS-L.

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Another Tomorrow is a luxury brand created for the compassionate global citizen seeking elevated, thoughtful design, community, and tools for advocacy.

Find the range in US sizes 0-14.

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Find most of the range in sizes S-L.

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Shop COSSAC.

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Innovative, responsible, and on-trend. Germany’s Armedangels gets a top score overall from us. The brand covers all the basics in womenswear and menswear. Armedangels’ quality and long-lasting pieces are made from lower-impact and certified materials, like Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certified cotton. The brand also adopted the Fair Wear Foundation Code of Conduct to protect its workers abroad.

Its products are available in sizes XS-XL.

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ZEROBARRACENTO is an Italian brand that creates zero-waste clothes that celebrate the personality of those who wear it.

You can find most pieces in sizes S-L.

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LANIUS is a German slow-fashion brand making smart-casual clothes.

LANIUS’ clothes are available in EU sizes 34-44.

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Dedicated is a Swedish casualwear brand prioritising lower impact materials.

Find the clothes in XS-XL.

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Portuguese brand ISTO.’s mandate is simple: create clothes to transcend the seasons and work as staple items in your wardrobe all year round. It has one single collection and pursues quality over quantity to try and make its items permanently available. It uses organic materials and is transparent in showing you the true cost of your clothes when you go to purchase a piece for your wardrobe.

The range is available in XS-XL.

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