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“Organic Pioneers” Stewart and Brown Share a Late Fall Curtain Call Collection

Lucille Chi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:07:16 +0000

Stewart and Brown is one of our favorite eco clothing brands. They’ve added a “late fall, curtain call” line to their collections. This playfully staged organic collection features softly draping chemise silhouettes and creatively tailored jackets for blustery autumn days.

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Fair Trade, Organic and Sustainable Nightwear Collection from People Tree

Lucille Chi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:41:03 +0000

“For every beautiful garment People Tree makes, there’s an equally beautiful change happening somewhere in the world” ~ Peopletree.co.uk

People tree is an exemplary model of “think global, act local” in sustainable fashion. With a strong business base in Europe and Asia, they work internationally with small handicraft makers in nearly twenty countries. Each textile collective is different. For example, in the nightwear collection highlighted above, they feature Nepalese hand-knit slipper socks together with these well constructed organic nighties made in India.

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Cool “I Love You” Tee-Shirts from the New Organic Stewart + Brown Collection

Lucille Chi — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:31:49 +0000

“Fill your community with a bit of benevolence by saying how you really feel.” The “I Love You” tee says it all with original handwriting too! This is a Stewart + Brown staple lightweight jersey tee that’s

a classy and classic fit that hits at hip
by design couple Stewart and Brown
100% organic cotton
made in the USA

The image above is from their collection inspiration pages where they say that “love is more than a four letter word” and so it is, especially in graffiti form on organic tee shirts.

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Color Comes to Organic Shirts

John Simonetta — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:36:20 +0000

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Simonetta Freelance, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

For a while it seemed that 100% organic cotton shirts came in one color: Natural. Well that is certainly changing, for both plain t-shirts and polos. Here are two brands I would recommend to Ecopreneurists doing apparel.

First up is the family of organic cotton shirts by Anvil which includes the Anvil 5 oz. Organic T-Shirt, Anvil 4.5 Organic Ringspun Fashion Fit T-Shirt, and Anvil 5 oz. Organic Long-Sleeve T-Shirt. Alpha Apparel and Broder both stock these shirts and you can locate them from most any apparel distributor.

The Anvil organic cotton shirts come in 10 colors, including bright, festive colors like yellow haze, river blue, a nice basic red and a fun chocolate. The line is all 100% preshrunk, certified organic cotton and comes in adult and youth sizes.

As always pricing on printed t-shirts depends most on the number of shirts run and the number of colors printed on those shirts. In general you should still expect to pay a bit of a premium for organic cotton tees.

For organic cotton polos I suggest Ecopreneurists take a look at Vantage Apparel and their Organic Cotton Pique Polo. No really bright colors yet, but the shirts do come in black, brown, blue, green and navy in addition to the traditional natural color. The shirts are a 7 oz. 100% preshrunk, certified organic cotton.

The Organic Cotton Pique Polo from Vantage holds up great and takes embroidery very well. These are not your basic polos {read more about pique cotton fabric}.

The Organic Cotton Pique Polo seems much softer than a traditional cotton polo and the quality of the shirts is higher than most standard cotton polos used in our industry. These shirts are on more of an executive / professional quality footing. They would be great for Ecopreneurists looking for restaurant servers’ uniforms, club shirts, or even casual Friday business attire.

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A Simply Gorgeous 100% Certified Organic Cotton Clothing Company with Awesome Taste in Fashion.

Lucille Chi — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:51:12 +0000

I am simply smitten with the cute organic cotton blouses from the Velvet Leaf ~ a sustainable clothing company.

Velvet Leaf defines sustainability as:

The ability to provide for the needs of the world’s current population without damaging the ability of future generations to provide for themselves. When a process is sustainable, it can be carried out over and over without negative environmental effects.
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Designer Rogan Gregory

Lucille Chi — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:48:58 +0000

Pictured here is American designer Rogan Gregory and one of his new organic designs for a partnership with Target that is set to create the next limited-edition collection for GO International, ® an innovative program designed to provide affordable fashion created by world-renowned designers.

Starting this week Barneys New York, will showcase an affordable Target collection from eco-conscious designer Rogan Gregory ~ Rogan for Target. The collection will be preview at Barneys New York in Manhattan from May 9 – May 11 and in Beverly Hills from May 16 – May 18. All cotton used in the collection is 100% certified organic.

Previously we highlighted a Loomstate event at Barneys. Rogan was actually once a designer for Loomstate, Edun, and his own CDFA/Vogue Fashion Fund award winning line.

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