Fasionist.com has a post discussing whether new clothing is truly ever eco-friendly. Overall, the article is good food for thought, but I take issue with this part: "How can something shipped across the world via a huge airplane be eco-friendly? ... The only true way to reduce your carbon footprint, at least when it comes to clothes, is to a) buy items made locally with cotton or wool that was produced locally or b) not. buy. anything. at. all."
I'm unconvinced by the author's "local is always better" argument. It's a common refrain, though. The NYT Green Issue has more evidence on how complicated it can really be to determine whether the food we eat is environmentally friendly or not.
For example, the NYT piece says that "organic bananas delivered by a fuel-efficient boat may be responsible for less energy use than highly fertilized, nonorganic potatoes trucked from a hundred miles away. Even locally grown, organic greenhouse tomatoes can consume 20 percent more resources than a tomato from a far-off warm climate, because of all the energy needed to run the greenhouse."
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