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The State of Our Clothes
Philip Burton explores ethical and ecological concerns about the clothing trade
LAST YEAR THE ADMIRABLE ethical publisher, Palewell Press, published my poetry chapbook, Untagged, in which I pay tribute to my mother, Eileen Strickland, a Court dressmaker whose planet-friendly skills are now, God willing, coming back to the fore.
The wearing of garments famously dates back to Adam and Eve. We know that flax was harvested to produce linen ten thousand years ago in Mesopotamia, and that weaving continued in The Holy Land in the time of Christ. It was very much a sustainable industry. Nature’s available dyes would not dye linen, so most people wore white (undyed) clothes, perhaps with a single colour stripe. If one wanted a coat of many colours then it was most likely to be wool. John the Baptist wore clothes of rough woven camel hair.
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