Boyish Jeans
Women's denim line with recycled fabrics and non-toxic dyes
Boyish Jeans' Sustainability Rating:
Materials
Slow Consumption
Accountability
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Good
Boyish Jeans uses majority low impact materials in its garments and helps keep garments out of landfill by offering a resale program. While the brand shares limited information about its emissions, supply chain, and energy strategy, it does use 100% plastic free packaging.
Detailed Summary
Materials
How is this brand using sustainable materials, sourcing, and shipping to reduce its impact?
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Raw Materials
Boyish Jeans reports a high proportion of its garments are made with lowest impact fibers, including organic cotton, recycled cotton, and deadstock fabrics.
Energy Use & Production
Commons could not find information on Boyish Jeans' renewable energy strategy. The brand does use some high efficiency processes in production, such as laser machine finsihing and vapor washing. Boyish Jeans sources and manufactures its materials globally, which is standard practice in the fashion industry.
Packaging & Distribution
Boyish Jeans uses 100% plastic-free packaging. Its eco-friendly packaging materials include compostable bags. Commons could not find evidence that the brand is working to reduce emissions from customer shipments.
Slow Consumption
Does this brand lower demand for new items by encouraging conscious consumption and facilitating the long-term use of its products?
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Repair & Care
Boyish Jeans does not offer repair services or a warranty. It does give detailed and environmentally conscious care instructions for its garments.
Take Back Programs
Boyish Jeans has a take back program that accepts its own brand's garments for resale.
Slow Fashion
Commons could not find enough information on its production strategy. For a small brand, we assume they have some limits on overproduction due to their scale of operations.
Marketing
Commons is currently evaluating Boyish Jeans' marketing emails.
Accountability
Is this brand transparent about its sustainability goals and how it’s working toward them?
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Transparency & Reporting
Boyish Jeans has a prominent sustainability page, with details on materials, energy use, circularity, labor practices, emissions measurement, production waste, current initiatives and progress, and packaging. It is unclear how often this page is updated. Boyish Jeans has also published annual reports. However, its latest report is from 2018.
Emissions Tracking
Commons could not find information for emissions tracking.
Emissions Targets
Commons could not find emissions reduction targets for Boyish Jeans.
Supply Chain & Labor
Boyish Jeans publishes the locations of some of its supply chain partners. It has a supplier code of conduct, which disallows subcontracting, protects collective bargaining, requires a living wage, and prohibits forced labor. The brands claims to conduct regular audits of its partners.
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