Meaning & use
conscious fashion
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Meaning
noununcountable
Clothing made and bought with attention to its effect on workers and the environment, such as by choosing fewer, longer-lasting or fairly made items.
Grammar: Usually uncountable: conscious fashion is growing, not a conscious fashion.
Patterns
- conscious fashion brand
- a commitment to conscious fashion
She turned to conscious fashion after learning how much clothing ends up in landfills.
The shop is built around conscious fashion, so every dress comes with details about who made it.
Conscious fashion often means buying less but choosing better.
Common combinations
- conscious fashion brand
- The conscious fashion brand uses recycled cotton.
- embrace conscious fashion
- More young shoppers are choosing to embrace conscious fashion.
- conscious fashion movement
- The conscious fashion movement encourages repairing clothes.
- conscious fashion choices
- Small conscious fashion choices can reduce waste.
Synonyms and how they differ
- sustainable fashion
- Sustainable fashion focuses on the environmental durability of production, while conscious fashion also stresses the shopper's awareness and habits.
- ethical fashion
- Ethical fashion centers on fair pay and working conditions, while conscious fashion is a wider and looser idea.
- slow fashion
- Slow fashion is the opposite of constant new trends and means buying fewer lasting pieces, a narrower idea than conscious fashion.
Opposites
Word family
- conscious adjective
- aware of something and paying attention to it
- consciously adverb
- in a deliberate and aware way
- consciousness noun
- the state of being aware
- fashionable adjective
- popular or stylish at the moment
Commonly confused: conscious fashion or conscience?
conscious fashion vs conscience
Conscience is your inner sense of right and wrong, while conscious means aware; conscious fashion is about awareness, not about guilt.
Practice
Which shopper is practicing conscious fashion?
Choose one answer.
Conscious fashion means choosing clothes with awareness of their human and environmental impact. The other options describe fast, trend-driven buying.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “conscious fashion”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.