The first annual Sustainable Fashion Week took place two weeks ago, from March 28 to April 4. The events spanned everything from a free secondhand clothing bazaar to a repair fair, where students brought in damaged items to learn how to repair them, and even a Project Runway-style fashion show.

I spent what added up to about three part-time workweeks trying to make a single pair of “ethical” pants. What I didn’t foresee was that the hardest part of the process was figuring out what a pair of ethical pants even looked like — or if it existed at all.

When someone loves my outfit of the day and the truth is, my outfit of the day is effectively bleeding the planet dry, what do I say?