FAQ

What is Burke and Bowen?

Burke and Bowen is an ethical clothing brand creating traceable products from seed to stitch. Our name is inspired from the longest boxing match in history between Jack Burke and Andy Bowen. We believe such tencacity and reslieince resembled in those men embody this company.

What is Ethical Fashion?

We recently wrote a blog post explaining what ethical fashion is.
https://burkeandbowen.com/blogs/learn

What is traceability in fashion?

The ability to trace the creation of apparel through each individual step. This provides radical transparency of the supply chain to consumers allowing less room for people to be exploited in the process.

Why Ethical Fashion?

We are not merely creating a shirt and pasting ethical fashion on it hoping it will sell. We intentionally design products with quality at the forefront of all we do. We want to create high quality pieces and utilize an ethical supply chain to do so. Which is why we are offering traceability of our products and transparency into our processes.

What is Greenwashing?

"'Greenwashing' is the practice of a company providing information on its environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) policies, or its products and practices, with the intent to present an environmentally responsible public image that masks harmful business practices" - Cooley

"disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image." - Oxford Dictionary