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A wedding day should be your perfect day. You want to look beautiful and feel great. In this era of heightened ethical awareness this has become a problem. How great can you feel wearing a wearing dress made by a 3rd world labourer? Or a wedding dress which required thousands of silk worms to be boiled alive?

This is a problem that Kate Carter has tackled in today’s Guardian. Kate explains the usual ethical dilemma with wedding dresses and suggests some great, ethically-made, alternatives.

“Many ethical fashion companies use hemp silk a blend of the two materials which produces a lovely weighted fabric. And this brings me to my top pick for an ethical bridesmaid dress (which would actually be a great wedding dress too) – Ciel’s hemp silk Jasmine dress. It’s even on sale, which puts the £175 price tag in your budget. It also has the advantage of being a classic, incredibly flattering cut that you will be able to wear again and again. Also in the Ciel sale, the mint green Grecian-style halter dress (£125) is another top pick.

If you prefer something in a more striking colour, The Natural Store has a great fushcia pink dress by Ethika, a fair trade co-operative in Pakistan, for £137.99.”

You can read the full article on the Guardian website.