NZ Made & 100% natural

With all this drama happening in China, I'm now getting a bit paranoid that every single item of clothing I have ever bought is made in China. Does anyone know where you can buy NZ Made clothing for a reasonable price. Usually anything NZ Made is very expensive.
Surely there must be some good sites where you can buy reasonable clothing.

Also 100% natural or organic soaps, deodorants, dish liquid, washing powder and stuff like that. I'm now getting really worried about all the chemicals I use on a regular basis.
It really is a worry isn't it, just makes me thinks what else do we regularly use that is full of harmful chemicals.

Edited by MelandBri

yeah its hard to know exactly what is 100% NZ made, as the labelling doesnt have to tell you!!

I was wondering - does anyone know - if you buy fabric and make clothes yourself, how you can find out where the fabric is made? I dont think I have ever seen any labelling on the rolls in the fabric stores.

I was thinking the same thing SimSam... Hmmm, all a bit daunting really!

Mokopuna Merino stuff is all 100% NZ materials made into clothing in China, but they have it all PH tested to ensure that the levels are acceptable and don't use any formaldehyde in their processing.

Thanks those products look great. Do you buy them?

I have been thinking about it quite a bit too. I think it is more of a "media hype" and in fact, most clothes have been going through this process for years. As long as you wash clothes thoroughly, they should be okay. Still is worrying though . Not all clothes are made in China, some are made in other places, like Kenya etc.. not that it makes it any better in regards to slave labour

sorry i forgot to say thermal curtains is what i was referring to.

SimSam wrote: I was wondering - does anyone know - if you buy fabric and make clothes yourself, how you can find out where the fabric is made? I dont think I have ever seen any labelling on the rolls in the fabric stores.

If you have a look on the selvedge of the fabric (the very edge), usually there's either a white band with coloured dots and the name of the fabric company and sometimes the range it's from, or it's printed in small letters just on the very edge of the fabric. If you know who the fabric company is, you can look them up on the internet and find out where their textiles are milled. Sometimes it'll tell you on the selvedge where the fabric was manufactured, but not terribly often. Most of the fabrics that we get from fabric stores in New Zealand do come out of China and other Asian countries, because textile milling is a big part of their economy.

my mum has been in the curtain business for 15 years and advises people not to use thermal as the backing is made of a chemical that when it gets to a certain temperature it lets off gasses.
i only found out this when i put thermal curtains from the warehouse in my daughters room, (which gets very sunny) anyway she started waking alot during the night and every time i went in there it smelt like glue, it got so bad that i was feeling sick from it. i couldnt figure it out and mentioned it to my mum one day. first thing she said was what curtains are in there? i took them down straight away and within a few days the smell was gone.
freaked me out!