Green Options » ridesearch.com http://greenoptions.com/tag/ridesearchcom Posts tagged 'ridesearch.com' Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:58:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en No Dye = Natural Fade http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/09/27/no-dye-natural-fade/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/09/27/no-dye-natural-fade/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:58:36 +0000 John Simonetta http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/09/27/no-dye-natural-fade/ This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Brian Base, the creator of RideSearch.com, was at the Green Dallas event held this last weekend here in Dallas, Texas. Proforma Green runs the t-shirts for RideSearch.com and both RideSearch.com and Proforma Green had been asked to participate in the event by the City of Dallas.

Well Brian was wearing a shirt we ran for him for the 2008 Plano Green Living Expo back in April (another event we both attended as vendors) and I noticed something.

The RideSearch.com shirts are natural cotton shirts. This means they have no dye in them, they are the color of untreated, undyed cotton.

What I noticed was that these shirts fade, although I am not sure fade is the correct word. As I mentioned the natural shirt, whether organic or regular cotton, are called natural because they have no dye in the shirts. So really there is no color (dye) to fade from the shirt, it is just the natural wear of the cotton.

And it seems that over time these shirts go from a sand tan color to more of a lighter parchment color.

I never really thought of it before but because the shirts have no dye in them they just act like what they are, natural cotton, and the “fading” is a result of their nature.

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