Categories: designer clothes, green outdoor wear, Patagonia, GoLite, Kavu, Keen Footwear, Teko

Four clothes designers (GoLite, Kavu, Keen Footwear and Teko) are following Patagonia’s outdoor greening wear motif. Although the clothes are not edible, they are darned with any of the following planet conservation ingredients.

Bamboo
Corn-based fiber or Ingeo
Coconut shells
Hemp
Recycled Boxes
Soy

GoLite is putting coconut shells to good use in their polyester shirts. To reduce perspiration and odors, these recycled button downs ($30-$35) are reinforced with carbon (from the coconut shells).
Starting at $40 to $60 dollars, the Seattle designer, based Kavu manufactures clothes from soy, hemp and bamboo. The plants are organically cultivated sans chemicals. Th natural antibacterial and antimicrobial properties of bamboo makes for breathable, pesticide free pants shirts to pullovers.


A sneaker is merely a canvas to gym shoe designer, Keen Footwear. Portland’s artist of the high tech Ventura running shoe ($60) is made using organic cotton canvas along with a water-based adhesive.

For the outdoor enthusiast, Teko’s hiking and running socks, stay drier because they are derived from corn-based fiber or Ingeo. Based out of Boulder, CO, these socks ($11 -$14) are fabricated from recycled boxes and nontoxic dyes.

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By Holly Bentz (c) 2007fruitionMedia.net

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