This skirt was a real bargain, bought on a flea market on the country side for 1euro.
Bag from Erikshjälpen second hand and top of organic cotton.
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Add some stitches…
Some embroidery at the neck gives life to an otherwise mainstream t-shirt.
Skirt and earrings are second hand. T-shirt in organic cotton from H&M.
Ett litet korsstygns broderi i nacken ger lite mer personlighet
till en annars vanlig t-shirt.
Longing for summer…
Summer is still far away, at least in Stockholm! But until then I dream away with these lovely dresses from People Tree and Stewart&Brown.
Sommaren känns fortfarande väldigt långt borta men snart är vi där! Tills dess drömmer jag om dessa ljuvliga klänningar ifrån People Tree och Stewart&Brown.
Finns att köpa på gemenskapgron.se
People Tree.
Stewart
Stewart&Brown
Walk a mile in my shoes…
Just when I thought the beloved spring might be on its way, I woke up to snow storm yesterday…
Well thank God I have good shoes to walk in then!
My nice Beak boots are handmade, ecological and made in Sweden, does it get better then that?
They make your shoes after order, so it migth take a week or two before you get them, but its worth waiting for.
Read more about Docksta Shoes here.
Just som jag börjat ana vårtecken i luften vaknade jag upp till snöstorm igår… Men jag har i alla fall bra skor att pulsa fram i!
Mina fina näbbskor är handgjorda, ekologiska, tillverkade i Sverige! Kan det bli bättre? Skorna görs efter beställning så det kan ta en vecka eller två innan man får dem men de är värda att vänta på.
Levi jeans
Jeans Jeans Jeans, I have several pairs of them and love them all. But it takes so much water to produce them. Apparently (I’m not an expert in jeans) you wash them several times before they are ready to sell, to create the right colour and look.
Levi how ever saw the problem and did something about it (we like that!): their new collection is called “water less” and will be in store this year. Normally it takes 48 litres per jeans, so I did I quick count adding up all my jeans I own and it took 240 litres of water to just make the jeans I have. But Levi has a new method, they can reduce the amount of water with 28 %, thats 11 litres less per jeans! How good is that!
You can read an Swedish article about it here, or the press release message in English here, Or simple just look at the youtube clip below!
LONG LIVE THE JEANS (but with less water please… )
TRAID second hand
Last time I was in London I went to one of “TRAID‘s” 10 shops that they have in and around London. I found some really nice stuff in their shops, to mention just one: my favourite dance dress! So I thought I’d take the opportunity to write about them and what they do.
TRAID is working:
- To protect the environment by diverting clothes and shoes from landfill;
- To reduce world poverty by raising funds for overseas development projects; and
- To educate the UK public on environmental and world poverty issues.
What I like most about TRAID is that they take care of any old textiles even those jeans that are too worn out to sell second hand, that jacket without buttons or that top with hole in the side. With all those clothes that I just described they make really cool remakes. The brand is called ”TRAIDremade” and you can find it in both Brighton where the clothes are made by their designers and in Camnden Town London.
Some of the stuff that I tried on..
They even do recycled shoes! I know for sure that I will walk around the streets in a pair of these during summer.
Please have a look at the other shoes and clothes that I didn’t get a picture of on the website or go to the shop if you live close by!
Ps. I noticed that they have a sale going on so take the opportunity NOW people!
eco clothes from Lindex
Min kära vän Karolina hade på sig dessa kläder förra gången vi sågs, både tröjan och jeansen är från Lindex eco collection. Nu när jag har varit borta från Sverige ett bra tag så har jag totalt missat att de hade eco kläder, så jag tog mig en titt på deras hemsida, och jag blev positivt överaskad. Under 2009 producerade de över en miljon eco kläder och hoppades på att nå 1,5 miljoner under 2010. Gillar du inte second hand kläder så är detta verkligen något för dig! Du kan fortfarande göra en skillnad, nästa gång du behöver kläder, kika in på Lindex och se om de ha något som passar.
My friend Karolina had these nice clothes on last time we meet, both the top and jeans is from Lindex eco collection. Being away from Sweden for a long time and all that made me totally miss that Lindex have eco clothes so I had a quick look at the website, and I was positive surprised! During 2009 they produced over a million eco clothes, and was hoping for more during the next years. So if you don’t like second hand clothes, this is for you! You can still make a difference, go to Lindex next time you need new clothes and see if you find something eco!
This man got me thinking…
About how many plastic bags I use every week just to bring my groceries home. Statisticts say that in Sweden we use 720,000,000 plastic bags every year. The ”life time” of a plastic bag is only 12 min before it hits the bin. What a waste… Plastic bags, who are made of oil, is a not a very enviroment friendly way to carry your stuff around. But there is some good looking alternative! Envirosax is one of them.
Minibag from Envirosax.
Envirosax have bags in many different designs.
For more info chech out envirosax.eu
In Sweden you can also buy them on Designtorget!