Kawana Dupree Eco-friendly fashion is a niche, and when you add plus sizes, it becomes a double niche, which makes the search extremely difficult. Sustainable fashion is also ethical fashion, which usually includes a garment design, production, and distribution that reduces harm to people and the environment. We’re here to take the challenge away and make shopping easier.
The term sustainable fashion has been used frequently to describe what and how clothes are made. What exactly is friendly sustainable fashion? It’s a movement and process of fostering change to fashion products and the fashion system towards greater ecological integrity and social justice. Sustainable fashion is also eco-fashion.
Eco-friendly fabrics are those that are safe for the environment, recycled, or biodegradable. The most popular ones are linen, cotton, wool, hemp, as well as anything that’s recycled and used in a new garment.
Mood Fabrics
Unsustainable fabrics are nylon and polyester, which are made from petrochemical and are non-biodegradable. Rayon is another artificial fiber.
If sustainable fashion is extremely important to you, you need to pay extra attention when shopping online. Take the time to read the garment description and when shopping in-store, read the fabric content tag.
How to be more eco-friendly with your clothes?
- Don’t throw away your lightly used clothes. Take them to a secondary store
- Resell on websites like Poshmark
- Donate your softly used clothes to shelters and charities
- Give to an animal shelter
- Check out local textile recycling locations
- Give them away to a friend or family member
20 Plus Size Friendly Sustainable Brands to Shop!
"The Willow 2.0 is the second coming of our most- loved dress, now in a softer and more durable fabric with an improved fit to show off your shape. Made in our signature luxe fabric, this piece fits and flows in all the right places for a chic silhouette."
Made with: Recycled Cotton
Size Range: 14-28
The Fern Cocoon Wrap In Silk Charmuse — The Perennial Closet
I love that it can be worn so casually with jeans and a great t-shirt or styled as a wrap dress with a cute pair of worn-in leather sandals. I can easily see myself wearing it both ways through the warm seasons.
Made with silk Charmeuse
Size Range: XS-5X
"The Devon Twill Pencil Skirt is soft and sophisticated all in one. Made from a sustainable mock twill fabric that is as soft as it is lightweight. Designed for a skimming fit and with a center-front slit for complete ease of movement.
This pencil skirt is engineered with an encased elastic waistband for a fit that stays secure all day. Pair this skirt with something equally lightweight for an outfit you'll wear morning to evening."
Size Range: 00-40
"Everything you like about wrap dresses, wrapped into a jumpsuit. The ease of the v-neckline allows movement and drape while the waist ties can keep the fit slim, but comfortable.
Wear the waist ties to the side or to the back, the Stella jumpsuit will be your new statement piece. Designed to hit at your ankle, the tapered Stella offers a streamlined minimal look."
Made with 100% linen.
Size Range: Unique sizing system of 0 – 10 fits traditional sizes 0 – 30
Yes, pockets. Yes, comfort. Yes, wear two ways. The sustainable dress you knew you needed but didn't exist yet. Designed to wear anywhere.
Made with :TENCEL™ Lyocell / Cotton / Modal / Spandex knit, paired with a 100% Cotton cord.
Size Range: XS-XXL
"The rework one of the nightshirt shapes into something of his own and the result is a combination of the brands' signature elements. The Helena dress has the sleeves, straight body, and the back yoke details seen on the majority of The Sleep Shirt's classic shirts."
Available at www.IntoTheBedroom.com, the official online store for The Sleep Shirt!
100% Cotton
Size Range: XL-3XL
This pant is bound to turn heads. The unique wrap style and flowing leg are striking and easy to fit. Material: 35% Cupro 35% Linen 30% Tencel
Size Range: in size XS-4XL
This beautiful rib-knit dress has gorgeous stretchy and recovery and drapes so effortlessly. A perfect dress for traveling. Dresses up and down for any occasion. Seventeen beautiful buttons right down the front and a super sexy neckline. The midi length is super sophisticated and modern.
Made of dead stock modal jersey knit.
Size Range: S-6XL
This brand exclusively sells eco-friendly jeans.
"DL Performance denim pairs our high-retention or comfort stretch technology with certified cotton for an authentic feel & fit that moves with you."
Size Range: 10-26
Designed with a soft, breezy fabric made from recycled bottles, the FLOAT High-Rise Bike Shorts keep you cool, comfy, and feeling cute. And the high rise makes them go great with a crop top, sports bra or oversized tee.
Made from 90% recycled plastic bottles (RPET) and 10% spandex
- Recyclable with ReGirlfriend
Size Range: XXS-6XL
"We teamed up with The Days to bring you the comfiest and cutest high waisted undies. They pair perfectly with the lounging bra to make the ultimate feel-good set. We chose the cheeky fit to show a little extra skin while still having your back."
"This garment is Responsible by Design. That means it meets our highest standard for environmental or social impact. It reflects our efforts to take responsibility for what we make, always looking for more sustainable materials and methods."
- 71% Tencel™ Lyocell/19% Nylon/10% Spandex. Made in Vietnam
- Range Size: PP-3X
"Our Goddess House dress "The Denni" is made from breezy cotton volié printed with a striking green ground with white and yellow center poppies. Sustainability sourced from vintage fabric. This dress is designed with comfort and easy in mind. for sure to be your go to all season long."
Size Range: 10-22
Simple, functional, and versatile. The trench coat has been a classic wardrobe staple for decades, a testament to its ease and timeless ability to elevate the most basic of outfits. 100%
Size Range: XS-4X
"The Wrap Dress is an effortlessly styled piece where the cut does all the talking. It is soft, drapey and feminine and, like all Bamboo Body pieces, can be dressed up for night or worn more casually throughout the day. Simply add accessories to personalize your look! "
Size Range: XS-3XL
Midi length dress with a raglan sleeve, tiered skirt, and an adjustable drawstring waist.
100% Linen
Size Range:XS-4XL
"Made from a high-quality soft-as-butter poly and recycled cotton mix. Hand drawn design fully printed and made in downtown Los Angeles in small and sustainable batches. Silhouette designed to be fit-friendly, the fabric has a lot of stretch.
Fully self-lined with double fabric. High-waisted fit with slight cheeky coverage in back. Playful yet SO comfortable! Designed to look cute and stay secure when swimming."
Size Range: XS-3XL
"The Nellie Dress is a modern update on the classic plus size LBD that you'll want to put in heavy rotation this season; clean lines that shape an on-trend, A-line silhouette. Pair this beauty with a classic pump for work or strappy sandals for a night look!"
Size Range: 12-36
- "A timelessly chic jean designed for both style and comfort. Built to contour curves, lengthen legs and celebrate your form. Made with an innovative tummy-slimming panel Sculpt with Hypersoft is super-soft for enhanced comfort with supportive stretch"
- Made with sustainable cotton
- Size Range: 14-26
The Palazzo Wide Leg Pants in Native are beautifully designed to flatter.
Made with modal
Size Range: 12-22
Sustainable fashion can be spotted in all fields. You can find it in your loungewear, workout clothes, undergarments, lingerie, swimwear, and everyday fashion. You can even find sustainable fashion in your shoewear as well! Brands like Adidas pride themselves on being eco-friendly.
Have you been a big supporter of eco-friendly fashion? Who are your favorite plus size friendly sustainable brands? Did you see anything that loved? I can’t wait to read your comments.
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I would like to have more sustainable garments in my wardrobe. Unfortunately, the prices for these materials are way out of my financial means. It’s hard to find inexpensive plus size clothing that isn’t complete trash (style wise or construction). Until the fashion industry decides to make all clothes available in all sizes (and dump the division between standard and plus size) or I win the lottery, (neither is likely to happen in my lifetime), I feel like my clothing choices are severely limited. It’s s depressing. I feel like being fat makes me unworthy to wear certain styles and labels.
WOW thank you so much!!! Shopping sustainably is really important to me, but finding sustainable plus sized clothes is so hard and I found so many fun brands here. I wish they were less expensive, but unfortunately, most sustainable fashion is expensive. I feel fortunate that I have the means to buy sustainable clothing and hope the entire industry will move that direction eventually.