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Forget black Friday the real cost of buying a mass produced bargain is low quality and environmental damage.  The mass production of slippers using synthetic materials contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, non-biodegradable plastic waste  and toxic work environments. Most people are aware now that the fashion industry or fast fashion is one of the main drivers of pollution on our planet. The shocking details are outlined in the link below from the Earth organization. https://earth.org/fast-fashions-detrimental-effect-on-the-environment/ Our MIM slippers are a win, win for everyone involved. We create a handmade, sustainable product made from 100% wool sourced from Mongolian herder families. Our felt wool slippers are incredibly durable buying one pair of our slippers will last and last....

Layers and layers of soft 100% Mongolian wool expertly combined by hand to create our unique handcrafted felt MIM slippers

Since 2004 MIM has trained over 500 mostly women from single parent households on how to make our felt slippers. Some of these women are now working independently. The following is a testimony from one of these women currently employed with MIM in Ulaanbaatar city Mongolia.