Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Since some of us are still in the gleam of Valentine's Day, we wanted to send some love towards Eco Fashion's World blog as we kick off our ongoing series highlighting some of our eco-fashion friends to show you what else is going on in our piece of the world. Eco Fashion World writes about some great topics in the world of sustainable fashion and they also provide links to many other like-minded eco-fashion enthusiasts, which we love!
The story behind Eco Fashion World starts with four people spread across three continents. Diverse individual backgrounds with same collective goals. They all believe in embracing personal style, all empowered by the possibilities of change. According to the founders, today being aware of what you wear takes on a very different meaning than it once did -
It begins with understanding the global repercussions that come with careless consumerism. It continues with realizing that we are all linked, from New York to New Delhi, Paris to Pakistan, Brazil to Bangladesh, Vancouver to Vietnam, by the very strings of our garments. It evolves with recognizing that when we support eco and sociallly responsible fashion, we help reduce poverty and environmental damage, and help support workers rights. Our actions have an impact. Our decisions energize transformation. The eco fashion world is moving forward! Every day a new development is made in sustainable fabrics. An innovative designer creates a super-glam, socially aware collection. A boutique devotes itself to making ethical clothing more easily available. An admired celeb dons an eco-friendly gown on the red-carpet and declares the smartest style statement possible. Someone picks up her first bamboo fiber shirt or organic pair of jeans and instantly falls in love.
Really, every day, a new conscionista is born. They are not selling anything on this site, but rather aim to inspire readers with new ideas, ideals and a wealth of information. The goal is to keep you green, gorgeous and growing with a comprehensive guide to finding sustainable designer brands and online eco fashion stores. Search the guide by category, eco criteria or country and look to ecofashionworld for all the latest eco fashion news and reviews, events, designer q&a's, store profiles, launch updates and interviews with the most favorite ethical divas. You can also learn more about organizations that are involved with the eco fashion movement.
As we continue this blog series, let us know if there are any outlets you think we might be missing as ones you are finding most interesting and useful in your conscionista exploration!
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Some people call them fingerless gloves, texting gloves, wristlets, arm warmers, pulse warmers, but whatever you want to call them, at emiLime, we are huge fans. The design plus the amazing qualities of alpaca have made our arm warmers the most popular product. Many creative people use our alpaca arm warmers to paint, take pictures, play instruments, knit, and lots of people love to wear their in their chilly offices.
Some of our favorites emiLime arm warmers are the classic Star crochet arm warmers and the visually and tactilely interesting Zing and Flow alpaca arm warmers. Most people understand the design because of the popularity of smart phones, but we often hear from people that they don't understand how they keep you warm because your fingers are exposed.
Long before the advent of iPhones and Blackberrys, people were wearing wrist warmers so they could work outdoors while keeping their hands toasty warm while still being able to access their fingers. A customer told us how 30 years ago she bought a pair in Germany, after seeing them on the wrists of every shopkeeper at a Heidelberg farmers market. They were also spotted indoors on mothers doing their knitting or cooking in poorly heated country houses.
People living in the colder mountainous areas of Europe have used wrist [i.e. pulse] warmers for centuries. You often see people wearing felted or knitted cuffs for additional warmth in Austria, Switzerland, southern Germany, Sweden, and Norway.
The key to wrist warmers is their ability to trap the body's natural warmth inside allowing for the hands to be warmed by your own blood. By insulating the vulnerable blood vessels that lie closest to the surface of your wrists, the warmers prevent heat loss letting the warmed blood flow through your hands to keep them toasty. It's sort of like having an internal hot water bottle and using the arm warmers as a knitted coozie.
Alpaca wrist warmers are made from the premium insulating fiber. Alpaca has been keeping the cold away from the rural people of the Andes for centuries and combining it with a classic design from the savvy European shop keepers, it has been an instant success.
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