Over a year ago, The Bachelor franchise announced Clare Crawley as their new bachelorette. It was the first time a woman in her upper-30s had been cast as a lead. Meanwhile, male leads in their upper-30s have been a mainstay throughout the production of The Bachelor.
Fans of the show are already familiar with these patterns. While there’ve been male leads in their mid-20s, bachelor selection has skewed older while bachelorettes are often younger and under 30. …
Know Logo helps you navigate today’s greenwashed marketplace, one eco-label at a time. Next up: Fair Trade USA-certified clothes.
When I first became passionate about avoiding fast fashion, I found it hard to find one closet staple — jeans. I pored through lists of sustainable and ethical denim brands; each seemed like a good investment, but was out of my budget. In recent years, that’s begun to change. Major retailers like Target have begun selling jeans from Fair Trade USA-certified factories for under $30. Beyond denim, other fair-trade clothing has cropped up in stores, both mainstream and niche. But what does the seal’s growing abundance mean? Do fair-trade jeans truly embrace ethical labour and environmental standards?
What is Fair Trade USA?
Most recipes recommend fresh blueberries when baking muffins. Drowning in a batter, fresh berries will keep their shape; frozen berries are more inclined to take the texture of melty goo when baked. Still, I can never bring myself to use fresh blueberries when making muffins. To me, opening a clamshell filled with the little blue morsels is a seasonal luxury. To eat them any other way than fresh and touched only by water is to miss that delicate sweetness and exploding texture.
For me, frozen blueberries are always acceptable for muffins. The juice is more inclined to run through the…
Finding Feminist Subversion in The Unhinged Ridiculousness of the Film’s Costume Design
When we talk about old Hollywood glamour, it is often an amalgamation of trends which spanned decades — Finger waved hair, fur shawls, red lips, delicate feathers. But the musical film fashion of the early 1930s seemed to transcend this notion of elegance. Rather, it’s grotesquely beautiful, absorbing the textures of luxury in contrasting and dramatic ways — The fur coats, the draping sheen of silk, perfectly pinned hats. Practicality seemed less important than aesthetic dominance.
This construction of glamour was of course in direct contrast to the…
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