So I Have Baggage, Who Doesn't?

ECO GENDER

I realize I'm writing two blogs in a row about bags, but I LOVE BAGS. I love them for putting things in and carrying things in and sitting around my apartment thinking about all the things I could put in them, or carry in them... well, you know how bags work. I don't have to explain that to you.

Anyway, I'm not sure why this cool online shop that specializes in recycled, biodegradable, and all around eco-friendly bags (including stuff from Helen E. Riegle) is called “Eco Gender,” but it is, and it’s a great store, so who cares what they choose to call themselves? I don’t judge. Except that I think it’s weird. JK dude- free to be you, man, free to be you. Especially when “you” is all about closing the circle and recycling yourself into being a better person by buying eco-friendly bags.

www.ecogender.com

Bag Again, For More

RE-BAGZ

At first I thought these wares looked a little hippie-dippie for a company out of Sherman Oaks, but turns out they’re a bunch of Gypsies, with a traveling store where they wander from village to village across Southern California selling their bags and one-of-a-kind natural jewelry. But they are modern gypsies, so you can also get their stuff online (just the bags, the jewelry you gotta see them in person to get).

They have a bag called a "sports pouch" and I had a momentary flash of hope that it would maybe be an eco-friendly fanny pack because I love fanny packs (at least, on other people I do), but it wasn’t. But that sure would be nice… if someone would do that…. anyone? Well, at least for now they have some kinda inadvertently poppy messenger bags made out of old rice sacks. Rice sacks which could be used to make fanny packs…


www.halftheskydesigns.com

gypsies, tramps and thieves:

www.artfulsoul.com
www.thelatesttrend.com
www.calamaribaby.com

Um, that's my bag

Um

These weird felt bags by California designer Josh Jakus are made from salvaged wool felt left over from… the wool felt factory, I guess. I have one, and although it took me two days to figure out how to open it without spilling the contents, it was worth the effort, because this little purse makes me look cool. Cool in wool.

www.joshjakus.com

be umpressed:

www.elsewares.com

www.branchhome.com

www.unicahome.com

www.curiosityshopperonline.com

www.shopbluehouse.com

www.uncommongoods.com

www.iloveuma.com

www.shopgrounded.com

www.reformschoolrules.com