Our money is power and when we give it to a company, we are giving them power. From Target to Amazon, we as a society are paying closer attention to a company’s expressed values versus actions, ethics, treatment of employees, political engagement, sourcing conditions, and so much more. But the more we dig, things seem worse than we realized and every purchasing decision can feel doomed to support something unethical in the long run.
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Read MoreThe wedding dress expresses her personality, works for her body type, compliments the aesthetic of her other wedding choices, is stylish but not too trendy, unique but not ostentatious, perhaps sensuous while maintaining a level of classiness, maybe flirty and foxy without crossing into provocative, bridal but not matronly, practical but as extravagant as she wishes because it is, after all, her wedding day. All this and more goes into choosing this once-in-a-lifetime gown.
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