What’s the environmental impact of your wedding dress?

For your wedding, when all eyes are on you, do you want to wear a mass produced, stamped-out gown assembled in a factory offshore? Over 80% of wedding dresses in the US market come from China, our world’s biggest polluter. These dresses are made from synthetics and the high carbon emissions do not just come from the processing and dying of these materials but from the transportation of the materials, the discarding of waste, and finally from shipping them to us across the world.

Stop and think about it.

For one of the most important days of your life, where do you want your clothes to come from?

 Then there’s the ethical issues. There is little transparency around who is making these dresses and even where they are being made. We know that the fashion industry is ridden with exploitation, extreme poverty wages, and forced labor.

A sea of sameness.

It’s not just the manufacturing but the development of these dresses that takes place in a relatively small number of large factories, so there are hundreds of dresses with the exact same neckline, the same construction, the same fabrics….

Maybelle gowns are one-of-a-kind, we upcycle existing pieces and use high-end natural fiber deadstock fabrics.

We lessen our environmental impact by working with local talent that we respect and pay fairly. This not only allows us to support our communities but it also supports the heritage dress industry, which we don’t want to lose. Added bonus-it gives us hands-on creativity!

Sustainability

It’s not just about materials but about practices and transparency.