Recycled Bags

Purse for Wear

06.26.2009

The Bite:
Your trusty bag look like it's been used for target practice? Might be time to put your bedraggled friend to rest and get a handmade Hilside Bag. HB turns discarded fabrics from estate sales and local designers into bags ranging from tiny credit card tucks to roomy portfolio slips (she does custom jobs too). Prints run from polka dots to French florals, and each zippered pouch has an easy-to-clean oilcloth lining (think: slick picnic table cover) to help keep its insides as presentable as its outs.
   
Why Care?: 
Using recycled material keeps textile waste out of landfills and conserves resources needed to make new stuff.
   
We are so gonna have HB make a custom bag out of our vintage houndstooth jacket once it finally dies.
   
Wanna Try: 
Hilside Bags, available online and at Perch, 654 Chenery St. (415-586-9000). Small bag, $14/5x3½; large bag, $43/14x11.

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Cocktail Fact

The zipper was invented in 1846 by Elias Howe - the same guy who invented the sewing machine.

 
 

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 fashion-savvy SF Biters opt for a purse made from repurposed rather than new material, we'll keep the weight of 67 female handbag makers in new textiles outta landfills. 
 
 

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She isn't local (which is really the point of Ideal Bite), but if you like these... Kim White makes handbags out of old stock of automobile fabrics from the 60's and 70's. Not only are they attractive, but I would imagine that they would be quite durable as well. You can check out more of her line on her website: http://www.kimwhitehandbags.com/

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