'Environmentally conscious decision': India's fashion lovers embrace secondhand


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Doodlage is among India's most loved eco-fashion labels. The country's fashion lovers are switching to secondhand to reduce their impact on the environment. Photo: Instagram/Doodlage

India's enormous garment sector churns out billions of dollars' worth of new clothes each year, but some local fashion lovers are switching to secondhand to assuage worries about the industry's environmental impact.

It is a tiny drop in a massive ocean, but hipster shoppers in the capital New Delhi say their example is slowly shifting the throwaway attitudes rampant among India's middle class.

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