Chain Gang

01.15.2008

The Bite:
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Does accessorizing seem about as easy as swinging hammers along a railroad? Join the Rust Belt jewelry gang, and chain your cares away. Rust Belt's unique necklaces, bracelets, rings, and earrings are hammered and pieced together using metals salvaged from vintage jewelry and jewelers' studio scrap, instead of virgin materials. Our fave: the simple, asymmetrical Jute Blue chain necklace - a stylish twist to the traditional chain. All of RB's goods come in quaint, rustic (and repurposed and recyclable) glass bottles instead of traditional boxes, so we say, chain us up.

Wanna Try: 
Rust Belt, available online or at Kaight, 83 Orchard St. b/t Grand and Broome Sts. (212.680.5630). Jute Blue chain necklace, $225.
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Cocktail Fact

Tough-guy actor Robert Mitchum was on a chain gang when he was 16 years old...he served 6 days before escaping.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 NY Biters buy a ring made from recycled metal instead of virgin materials, we'll avoid creating the weight of over 53 Staten Island Ferries in new mine waste.

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