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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I read this and thought, gosh, we all agree she is mostly correct. Except I'm curious whether the imitation leather is made out of petroleum products, which would mean that dtb's friend probably won't wear it. Perhaps she's not really a vegan.
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Ya know, it actually sort of ticks me off that there isn't much stylish, or even fashionable, clothing for vegans. (Actually, this is part of my general annoyance that there aren't more stylish clothes for everyone outside of "normal" parameters, or even within them, but philosophical veggies, the obese and the non-wealthy are ones that often get my dander up, and things are very slowly being improved for the last two.) While I will refrain from commenting that those who believe others shouldn't wear animal products should perhaps devote their efforts to creating non-animal product clothing that those others will actually want to wear instead of chastizing and alienating everyone with their rudeness (as some certainly have, though by all appearances the vegans are still a sufficiently small group that they don't seem to have much of a talent pool to draw from), I am eternally frustrated with people's lack of imagination.
Why should vegan clothing mimic non-vegan clothing? You can get materials a lot better looking than fake leather that will serve the same purposes (and probably serve them better), and once you stop to think "well, why should a vegan foul-weather boot look like a leather boot? Why not create something entirely different with waxed cotton, or jointed wood or metal soles, or something else that makes the most of materials we are willing to use?" the whole world opens up.
BR(Because people are conformist sheep, yes, I know.)
