Whether you have been a long-time supporter of eco-friendly initiatives or just getting up to speed, taking care of the environment is now stretching further into our daily lives, including our sense of fashion.
From Canada, eco-handbags.com brings us totes, messenger bags, purses, and more that are created from recycled or organic-friendly goods such as cigar boxes, candy wrappers, 35mm slides, art banners, movie posters, magazines, books, soda pop-tops, men's ties, inner tubes, jute, hemp, cotton...and the list goes on.
One of my favorites is the "Don't Push Me Around" handbag made from a cigar box. Okay, it looks more like a large lunchbox, but who really cares, this is cool! Vintage, authentic, modern, socially conscious, and it looks good with a pair of jeans and a cotton button down.
Looking for something more night-out-on-the-town friendly? You're covered. You may have heard about the candy wrapper hand bags by now. A neat idea and they look cool too. They take old-fashioned basket weaving techniques, unused candy wrappers from manufacturing plants and little real life talent, the voila! You have a stylish handbag that comes in a wide array of colors -- as colorful as any candy wrapper.
Eco-fashion now extends well beyond handbags and donations to environmental causes from high fashion designers, on into "real life." Thanks to twenty-somethings Callie Smith and Ursula Stahl, who started the forward-looking business, Envi, in Boston in 2006, sexy environmentally conscious women don't have to trade in their sense of style for a hemp poncho (but keep that for weekends!).
Pictured here is the Bella Dress, from Envi. Pair it with the Botero-Black candy wrapper bag above and you're set.
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