vegan

Bluebuck
Extract of email from Pierre on 14th March in reply to a query.

We are also working on a Henley - a Tshirt with 3 buttons opening under the front collar. They will probably be long sleeve - but we might add a few short sleeve versions as well.

As if it could be so.

I have a site that distributes 100% 'vegan' and 90% 'organic' wholefood and the like, local to Calstock.

There is a company rawganique that hails from the US and claim the products are made in France. I am waiting to hear if there is an EU outlet as it is off-putting to think of products being shipped to the US and back.

It is difficult to get 100% cotton socks that are made of organic fibres and manufactured without recourse to exploiting desperate people in the so called third tier countries, most of which may be in the Far East.

I have just been sent a pair of socks from BlueBuck. The label, was attached with cotton thread, rather than the little bits of plastic, and shows details of the main points.

Disposal
With 9% nylon (polyamide) and 1% Elastane the socks can not be composted without having to remove the stringy remains of 'plastics'. This also means that factories have to make this stuff from arguably questionable resources, using workers that may well be hidden from the view of the Fair Trade flossies.

This is a problem in many brands and I would like to find socks made of fibre other than cotton, linen, hemp or nettle. Apparently nettle fibre was used in the UK during the second world war.

Notable
The Bluebuck socks are sized (L/XL) and measure 24cm from <extreme heal to toe> and  are fairly thick. 

   

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