When I suggested to my wife that I wanted to see her in a pair of recycled knickers, she suggested that her next husband would be far more reasonable.
At best, the very notion of recycled pants was tangled with some kind of kinky wife-swap at best. At worst, there was probably an image of me in the loft dressing up in my mother’s wedding dress and pouting into the polished lid of a biscuit tin.
She’s clearly missed the point. Not about me and the dress, of course (what a man gets up to in the privacy of his loft is his own business), but about recycled clobber. This Christmas, the whole recycled clothes thing seems to have kicked into gear, and suddenly, there’s rack upon rack of clothes that you’d actually love to see people in for sale. You just need to know where to look.
Top of my list is www.greenknickers.org: a site that sells unique, hand-made undies that are created from recycled materials and produced ethically. I know. Many of you reading this will think that the words ‘pants’ and ‘ethically’ go together like ‘tedious’ and ‘uncomfortable’. Maybe you’ll change your mind when you see your partner parading round in a pair of their Forget Me Not knickers [http://www.greenknickers.org/php/selected.php?Submit.x=70&Submit.y=71&rn1=5], all organic cotton, ribbons and feminine charm. And they do men’s pants too, more classically styled boxers than hessian gussets – worth a check.
For even more of a range, I’ve been surfing through what’s tipped as the hottest recycled fashion boutique site there is: Goodone has featured in all the style supplements and creates new designs from old fabrics, remaindered stock and even off-cuts. They manage to mass-produce their designs, which means you know exactly what you’re getting – and they get to soak up all the fabric that’s normally treated as waste. Check out their designs here: http://www.goodone.co.uk – cut up, directional and wearable.
It’s good to see that when it comes to clothes shopping for your partner, there’s sustainable stuff being brought to market that’s actually cool, with a distinctly cheeky edge. A bit like me in a pair of my mum’s pants, in fact. Now that’s another recycling story.
Ed Chipperfield
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Tags: Christmas, Underwear, Wedding Dresses
