Custom Clothing & Merchandise
Anya Hindmarch’s £5.00 tote bag seems to have taken the environmentally conscious amongst us by storm, not to mention the fashionistas. With Hollywood’s A list celebrities all clutching what has been quoted to be this seasons must have accessory, its no wonder eBay sellers are already getting a good return on the £5.00 bargain. Anya’s … Read more
An article on the BBC: The Fairtrade label is increasingly common. But while shoppers seem keen to pay a little over the odds for fair trade products, some observers question how effective it really is in helping developing world farmers. Read More:Â How fair is Fairtrade?, BBC News Online, 4th March 2007
The Independent yesterday ran a great review of Paul Allen’s Book, Your Ethical Business: How to Plan, Start and Succeed in a Company with a Conscience. Trapp, the reviewer, believes Allen is concerned with businesses that from the outset are seeking to do more than make money. He name checks the usuals suspects as examples, … Read more
Indigo is proud to supply Modec with smart, embroidered polo shirts for their staff uniform. Modec are an amazing company as they make cool looking, environmentally friendly vans, and with a top speed of 50mph, these are certainly no milk floats! Their website states: The Modec range is possibly the greatest leap forward in commercial … Read more
Next Thursday sees the official launch of Newconsumer.com, the web’s newest and hottest ethical lifestyle magazine. Packed with daily news, views and interviews on everything green and Fairtrade, the site’s written by the UK’s top ethical journalists including The Guardian’s Lucy Siegle and Richard Hammond, Metro’s Bel Jacobs, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, plus many of the web’s … Read more
Every winter, Innocent, one of Indigo’s clients, raise money for charities that help elderly people stay warm during the winter by having a ‘Supergran’ knitting contest. They knit lots of little woolly hats and stick them on their smoothie bottles. For each behatted bottle sold, 50p is donated to their chosen charity Age Concern. Their … Read more
The ethical consumerism bandwagon is more like a bullet train than a trundling horse-drawn cart, driving through more and more industries, and textiles is no exception. Many will see this as a move in the right direction – the knowledge that a little under one fortieth (2.4%) of the world’s arable land is planted with … Read more
We have been helping Camden Council (London) with their request for recycled promotional merchandise. We are keen to be more green and introduced organic cotton clothing last summer. We can now offer things likes recyled mugs, pens, mousemats, etc. at competitive prices. Check out our mini-site at www.recycledproductsonline.co.uk and if there is anything that takes … Read more
Don’t know what to do with that corporate giveaway t-shirt that you were given when you joined your gym? Well apparently the new buzz in fashion circles is about “T-Shirt Reconstruction“. Luckily, ReadyMade have a great little post explaining all which I have republished in part here: It seems that t-shirt reconstruction has become the … Read more