Ethical shoes/boots/belts/apparel

Tar.Aldarion

I was just looking at buying some shoes/boots and a belt. This got me thinking, what sites do you guys know of that have an ethical based line?
Vegan shoes and so on.What about things like vegan suits instead of wool?
Here's a few I've found for shoes etc, any other sites would be great.

http://wills-vegan-shoes.com/
http://www.vega-trend.de/vegatrend/index.php?cat=c11_Vegetarian-Shoes-Vegetarian-Shoes.html
http://goodguys.bigcartel.com/products
https://www.keepcompany.com/category.aspx
http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk/
http://www.drmartenscanada.ca/vegan-1461-black-shoe.html

Good suits seem quite difficult, looking into it. Seems you need to get a custom tailored one, and for the buttons too. Similar for shirts, good shirts tend to have non-vegan buttons.
Nearly every tie is silk etc.

Vegan ties: http://www.jaanj.com/

Zombienosh

I always struggle with shoes/belts. I tried specialist places before and found some places too pricey and other places just looked naff, I can generally find some vegan nikes or new balance trainers handy enough.

--LOS--

buttons? how are the buttons not vegan?

Tar.Aldarion

Zombienosh wrote: »

I always struggle with shoes/belts. I tried specialist places before and found some places too pricey and other places just looked naff, I can generally find some vegan nikes or new balance trainers handy enough.

The belts on vegetarian-shoes look good enough, I'd like one. Yeah shoes are much trickier than runners. For years they looked so terrible as well, and the only option was buying cheapo non-leather shoes, but that's replacing animal suffering with other animal suffering, human suffering - in sweatshops. As they are so disposable that is environmental damage too.
Yeah some can be pricey but I guess I'm paying no more than i would be paying for a good non-vegan alternative anyway.

I was looking at wills vegan shoes and see some nice ones.
http://wills-vegan-shoes.com/en/vegan-men-s-desert-boots-grey.html


and finally some ok looking work boots!
http://wills-vegan-shoes.com/en/vegan-men-s-lace-up-boots-brown.html



Formal shoes seem easier now I think but I never saw good boots really before recently. Unless it was Doc Martin style.

--LOS-- wrote: »

buttons? how are the buttons not vegan?

A lot of suits themselves have horn buttons, but more commonly the shine on shirt buttons is because they have "mother-of-pearl"/Nacre, molluscs. Also used in jewelry. It's the shellac of fashion.

--LOS--

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

A lot of suits themselves have horn buttons, but more commonly the shine on shirt buttons is because they have "mother-of-pearl"/Nacre, molluscs. Also used in jewelry. It's the shellac of fashion.

so it's just with suit shirts usually then is it? I hope so haha.

Semele

http://mattandnat.com/#

This company does gorgeous bags, all vegan. They're a bit on the pricey side but I have one and can say the quality is superb.

Tar.Aldarion

--LOS-- wrote: »

so it's just with suit shirts usually then is it? I hope so haha.

I'm not really sure the more I look at buttons teh more I fear that many have it due to the shine, grrr. http://www.myfabrics.co.uk/mother-of-pearl-buttons.html
I'll have to look it up more but I think cheaper buttons don't have it?!

Semele wrote: »

http://mattandnat.com/#

This company does gorgeous bags, all vegan. They're a bit on the pricey side but I have one and can say the quality is superb.

Oh those bags are niceee, great site thanks! Exactly the kind of site I'd like to know about.

BMJD

I have bought shoes and belts from

http://www.mooshoes.com/
and
http://www.rootsofcompassion.org/en/

I hate buying shoes online as it can be hit-and-miss as to whether they will fit or be comfortable. I went into the Moo Shoes store in NYC a couple of years ago and bought loads of stuff.

The suits thing is solved by avoiding court and marriage (too late for me )

Tar.Aldarion

For more expensive shoes

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=noharm&tag=googhydr-20&index=shoes&hvadid=2484238307&ref=pd_sl_704zmt795n_b

BobCobb

ethicalwares.com is another one.
I bought some shoes from them last year and they were very easy to deal with.
They don't have a huge amount for sale, but they do have a few nice things.

madrabui

Semele wrote: »

http://mattandnat.com/#

This company does gorgeous bags, all vegan. They're a bit on the pricey side but I have one and can say the quality is superb.

Believe it or not I've seen these in TKMaxx.

Semele

madrabui wrote: »

Believe it or not I've seen these in TKMaxx.

Meant to say ASOS.com usually has some stock too and decent reductions in sales!