Environmental / Accessibility
This page contains :
Environmental information about our business.
Accessibility on our website.
Environmental
Our slow fashion business is inspired by nature and the landscapes around us.
Check out some of the steps we take in our Irish business below:
- we design all our products in our studio in Tipperary, Ireland.
- we make and sew all our designs in our studio in Tipperary, Ireland. This is why we take 3-5 days to make and ship your order. We handle all your orders with great care.
- all designs are designed and made by Irish fashion designer Aoife M O'Dwyer in our Studio in Tipperary Town.
- we are a sole trader businesses owned by Irish fashion designer Aoife M O'Dwyer
- limited collection pieces and stock. We have a limited amount of designs per collection and we release a limited amount of designs per year.
- all our clothing is made to order.
- certain designs are pre order items so we can purchase fabric to order to reduce the amount of fabric waste.
- we offer free repairs on items purchased from our website (items must have been purchased from our website, proof of purchase and order number required)
- your order is carefully wrapped in recycled pink or green tissue paper (chloride and acid free) purchased in the EU.
- depending on the item your order is shipped in a recyclable shipping bag or recyclable cardboard shipping box. These shipping items are purchased from an Irish business.
- some of the fabrics we use and the haberdashery are purchased from other Irish businesses (see item descriptions)
- some of our corsets are made from end of line roll fabrics purchased in Ireland (see item descriptions)
- our coats are made from 100% wool.
- our name labels are 100% recycled yarn and purchased in the EU
- our care labels are 100% recycled and purchased in the EU.
- we ship our orders with an Irish postal service, An Post.
- we reduce waste by making accessories from off-cut fabrics from our designs.
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Accessibility
We have installed an accessibility app feature on our website to assist in navigating and editing our website to how you would like. You can make colour adjustments, content adjustments and orientation adjustments. Now you can invert lighting, change lighting and saturation, fonts, word size, contrast modes, highlight reading guide, big cursor and more. To avail of these features select the purple icon on our page (top right desktop, bottom left mobile) These features are available for desktop and mobile view.
- For more accessibility features go to settings on your mobile and enable accessibility and choose the features you want to enable such as live speech, audio & visual and more.
- To navigate on desktop keyboard use arrow keys (cursor / directional keys). Use space bar key to move down in sections. Ctrl and + or - for increase or decrease zoom or Command + or -
- Our website does not contain sound videos or music for a quiet experience while shopping.
Additional website features
- Product keyword search and discovery bar has been installed on our home page to quickly find products or pages by selecting the search icon (top right on mobile and desktop)
- Add note box at checkout- attach additional information to your order about your order or delivery needs at checkout. This note can be added to the front of your parcel if requested.
Read aloud description of our website for desktop view and mobile view.
- Layout description desktop view
Header contains navigation to the different pages across our website with drop down menus for our shop section and policies section.
Menu strip contains: our green logo, Home, Collections, About us, Policies, Size chart, contact. Right side of strip contains currency selection , language selection, search icon and shopping basket.
Footer contains quick links to pages on the left and business information on the right, subscribe to email box is located at the bottom middle section, accepted payments icons are bottom right, currency selection / language bottom left.
- Layout description mobile view
Header contains drop down menu icon on top left, our green logo centre middle and our search icon and shopping basket icon top right.
Footer contains quick links section first followed by business information and subscribe email box. The next box contains country / region currency and language selection. At the bottom of the footer contains icons of accepted payments.
- Entering our website on any device you will be greeted with our cookies / privacy policy selection box at the bottom of the screen which also contains a quick link to our privacy policy.
Eire Fashion Aoife is a sole trader Irish business and our business is always trying to learn and improve and continuing to update the website for a better experience. Customer support email- eirefashionaoife@gmail.com