Green Options » organic clothes http://greenoptions.com/tag/organic-clothes Posts tagged 'organic clothes' Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:05:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Fair Trade, Organic Kids Fashion by Indigenous Designs http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/07/fair-trade-organic-kids-fashion-by-indigenous-designs/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/07/fair-trade-organic-kids-fashion-by-indigenous-designs/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:05:34 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/07/fair-trade-organic-kids-fashion-by-indigenous-designs/ Fair trade, organic fashion for kidsIndigenous Designs is a fair trade, organic clothing company with apparel for the whole family!  I personally love the double layered skirt, but for my son, the organic Havanna shirt is super cool!  Made in Guatemala, this fair trade organic shirt is just like the grown up version, making your little boy look like a little man. My son will be wearing his Havanna shirt to his fifth birthday party this weekend!

Indigenous Designs is committed to:

  • Supporting and preserving fair trade wages and artisan cooperatives
  • Investing in natural and organic fibers and environmentally-friendly dyes
  • Spreading the beauty of handmade, eco fashion

Many people eat organically grown food, but when it comes to their clothing, they forget natural and organic fibers clothing is just as important for our planet as it is for our health.

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]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/07/fair-trade-organic-kids-fashion-by-indigenous-designs/feed/ How to Make Green Fashion an Everyday Choice http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/08/14/how-to-make-green-fashion-an-everyday-choice/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/08/14/how-to-make-green-fashion-an-everyday-choice/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:04:41 +0000 Paul Smith http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/08/14/how-to-make-green-fashion-an-everyday-choice/ What do you do if you’re a marine biologist with an entrepreneurial streak who wants to indulge it by opening a business, but you want it to be part of the solution, rather than adding to the problem? Open an online eco fashion site, of course.

Fashion & Earth organic fashionsThat’s what Adrian Desbarats, up in Prince Edward Island, on the far east edge of Canada, decided to do. Far from being yet another boutique green fashion site in an obscure location, Desbarats is about to launch a site with high ambitions: To make the buying of sustainable fashions an affordable, quick, painless experience, at great prices.

It’s easy to find expensive green fashion like Natalie Portman’s vegan shoe line and other such boutique items, or on the other side, hippy skewed hempwear. But what if you want fashion for the more everyday, that looks good, wears well, and is reasonably priced? This is where Fashion & Earth aims to fit.

Now the question that came to my mind is, isn’t there other sites out there that do just that? Desbarats was on the case, with a well thought out response:

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