Faced with the staggering amount of emissions and resources typically associated with clothing, you might think the key to having a more sustainable wardrobe is obvious: Stop shopping.
"It'd be very easy for me to say, 'Just stop buying stuff,' " says Mark Sumner, a lecturer focusing on sustainability within the textile, clothing and fashion industry at the University of Leeds's School of Design. "But that is a very lazy response and does not reflect the complexity of fashion and its positive impacts for workers."