Shiny dresses with sequins have become synonymous with Christmas such as carols, food and sweets. However, the mini dress with sequins counts down to our lives. Many brands are starting to remove them from their collections and are looking for more sustainable ways to add shine to formal wear.
Among them is Boden who this year decided to remove all kinds of glitter and sequins from her women’s and children’s clothes to make her Christmas collections more environmentally friendly. According to the statements of its representatives, at the request of the customers, they made this brave decision. The profit of these shiny clothes materials may be great but they have discovered new ways to be creative and please their customers.
The disadvantages of plastic
It is a decision that shows the responsibility of the company when it learned that eight million tons of plastic end up in the oceans and the rest of the aquatic ecosystem.
Washing a dress with sequins can cause the accumulation of microplastic that from the washing machine will end up in the oceans. Even the methods of producing and processing plastics to become sequins are quite harmful and produce toxic chemicals that can be carcinogenic.
The only responsible way to wear a sequined dress is to wear it for many Christmas, but again when we decide to part with it it will stay in the dump for many hundreds of years. In fact, this kind of clothes do not stay in the closets for long and after Christmas they are thrown away.
The trend of Christmas glow does not go unnoticed
Most houses from Halpern to Prada have included sequined pieces in their fall / winter 2021 collections. For brands that want to include sequins in their clothing, another way can be found.
According to Rachel Clowes, founder of The Sustainable Sequin, sequins may be beautiful but they can cause environmental damage. Through its company, which is funded by the “Future Fashion Factory”, it wants to make biodegradable sequins made in the United Kingdom, which will be commercially viable and from renewable materials such as waste and by-products. So we will have a result without plastic that will have the same shine and performance and at the end of its life will be biodegradable.
The sequins that they will create have not yet reached the point of having the same shine as those that pollute the planet. However, Clowes hopes that at some point they will reach this point. That’s why this Christmas, instead of wearing a glittering dress with sequins, focus better on a satin with beads or something more metallic.
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