Freedom in Fashion: Style that Stands for Good
By Laura McNamara | September 21, 2010 at 8:34 am

Warby Wears Pink: Limited edition frame designed to support Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. With each pair purchased, $50 will be donated for breast cancer research and education. And, as always, for every pair bought, a pair is given to someone in need.
Don’t just dress to impress. Dress for progress:
Invisible Children: Apparel for peace in Northern Uganda.
Invisible Children is moving toward a line of clothing made entirely from organic cotton grown and sewn in Uganda. Buying IC apparel supports our efforts to generate an entire organic supply chain in Northern Uganda, bringing the most value to local farmers.
Toms Shoes: Buy shoes to give shoes.
TOMS Shoes was founded on a simple premise: With every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need. One for One.
Warby Parker: You see. They see.
Warby Parker partners with renowned non-profits, such as RestoringVision.org, to deliver one pair of glasses to someone in need for every pair that we sell. In doing so, we enable you to share the gift of vision with someone who can’t see today and give them the opportunity to read, to work and to live a fuller life.
Locks of Love: Donate your locks to children with hair loss.
Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics.
Falling Whistles: Wear a whistle and be a whistleblower for peace.
Originally just a journal written about boys sent to the frontlines of war armed with only a whistle, readers forwarded it with the same kind of urgency in which it was written and demanded to know – what can we do?
The Falling Whistles campaign launched with a simple response – make their weapon your voice and be a whistleblower for peace in Congo. Read the story and buy the whistle. Proceeds go to rehabilitate and advocate for war-affected children. Share their story and speak up for them.
Red Threads: Accessorize with bracelets that fight sex trafficking.
The impact of the Red Thread Movement is three-fold. First, wearing the red bracelet creates awareness of sex trafficking [it’s happening more than we might think, with as many as 12,000 girls trafficked across the Nepal border each year]. Second, making the red bracelets provides employment for girls in Nepal who have been rescued from the hands of sex traffickers at the border. Third, the revenue from the Red Thread Movement [each bracelet costs $2] employs not only the rescued girls but also funds the safe house that welcomes them and continues the establishment of border units.
What other products do you know of that support good causes?




