How to Shop Fair Trade for Very Good Buys

Looking for the best buys on jewelry items (including trending tagua nut jewelry), laptop cases, or how about a gorgeous hobo bag?

The fair trade manufactured products (as opposed to food products) industry has arrived at the stage where marked down sales on items are a great opportunity to buy eco friendly products that are hand made and pay fairly to the individuals who craft them in economically developing countries. Good prices can mean a lot of savings on items for you or for gift-giving occasions in the near or far future.

Now in early 2015 it is an excellent time for seasonal sales as there are many items being marked down so that inventory is sold to make way for new items. Our SFAC online store has one of the best selections of fair trade clearance sale items you’ll find. In fact under searches for fair trade clearance sales our site comes up at the top of page 1 on Google.

We’ve marked down items from 10% to 90%—including home décor, accessories, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, wraps and scarves, and more. There are dozens of jewelry pieces for your browsing—all at bargain  prices. Our sale items are fashionable, exciting and very affordable.

Please visit our clearance sale page and be sure to tell all your friends about it. Remember we are nonprofit, so much more goes back to the artisans and other nonprofit-benefited projects in the US.

PACT Baby Clothes Now Fair Trade Certified

When the PACT fair trade manufacturer from Turkey expanded out of its successful women’s and men’s underwear and sock lines into baby wear we were excited. We picked up their line of onesies (with matching socks) for babies: super soft, organic cotton, for boys or girls, no pesticides, fertilizers or bleach is used.  They don’t use sweatshops and pay a good living wage to the artisans who work for them. We couldn’t resist these adorable pieces and they’ve been selling well since we brought them into our baby collection.

Now PACT has been officially Fair Trade Certified (FTC), an extremely demanding designation to achieve. PACT is already GOTS certified as a brand with factories that feature clean, safe workplaces that also have a light footprint on the environment. Now they are FTC and can boast having more FTC products than any other brand in the US.

Fair Trade Certification is given when a brand is recognized for outstanding empowerment to its workers, with putting more money directly into their hands for upwards mobility to a better standard of living.

Shop our baby collection for these adorable onesies and our other quality made, eco friendly products for infants and toddlers. Please share our site with your friends! We are a terrific resource for unique baby shower gifts and darling items to lavish upon the young’uns in your lives.

Wearing Fashion That Reflects Your True Self

Fashion is about expressing who you are in apparel and accessories, right? Our look is an extension of who we are on the inside, and/or who we identify with in the world (which is part of who we are on the inside). Fair trade fashion, as many commentators have pointed out, represents who we are ethically, intellectually and emotionally. For some, it speaks to our spiritual identity.

In an article on the website Triple Pundit there is the observation that: Welcome to the world of fashion and the daily ritual of wearing a piece of apparel every day that has the potential to “define” you. Now we look at the power of fashion to define and transform the individual from the inside, too. Ponder for a moment the ability to connect with people and planet through our clothes — what would you say to this? In reality, this concept is absent in our daily conversation because brands and companies that produce, market and sell clothing today have kept this information from us; they have denied it as a priority and denounced the impact that this information can have on the overall shopping and purchasing decision we as consumers make on a daily basis. Every day we wear a piece of clothing that has touched several people along the way. It is something most of us take for granted. Perhaps it’s time to revisit this journey, to step back and ponder how aligned each piece of clothing is to our own values. Let’s celebrate the fact that fashion has the potential to connect us in deeper and more profound ways.

Here at SFAC we believe that what you wear or put on or display in your home or dress your kids in does deeply reflect who you are. From this perspective we endeavor to bring the best collections—both in beauty and quality—for your shopping and ethical pleasure. Please enjoy visiting our online store here. And remember we are nonprofit, meaning your fair trade purchase goes much further than a profit-based fair trade store.