vegan bags

I’m Back.

A new comment has made me spring back to life.

A commenter Rebekah wrote:

Blogging is HARD. All the research and fiddling with technical details, and sometime no one comments at all. But you CAN make a difference, and you ARE.

Yay. That is so sweet. Some comments of late have made me realize that people are still looking and failing to find vegan shoes, and as Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of PETA says, ONE can make a difference (that’s the name of a book she wrote). So with that in mind, I am going to update you all on some good new vegan shoes that have become available, while I’ve been Out Of Commission.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Forever 21 is the BEST source for cool vegan shoes on the web. Unfortunately they are what I call “unintentionally vegan” because they do not have animals interests at the forefront and are not a vegan company, however they have great styles and I almost never see leather used in any of their shoes. When there is leather in a shoe it is marked in the title as Leather or Suede, as far as I know. I saw 2 shoes out of hundreds that were real leather. I think this is mostly in the interest of keeping their costs low though, as opposed to some sort of awareness of the Leather Industry, but at least it means all their shoes are extremely cheap.

If only Forever 21 were a vegan shoe company, vegans would have a great resource for affordable, cool vegan shoes but at the same time, they’d know their money was supporting a company with the interests of animals in mind. Maybe this fantasy company could even work towards educating people about the leather industry and giving part of their money to animal rights causes.

Well, here are the shoes.

I will simply post some photos of the shoes I like with links to their page on Forever 21.

Tell me what you think of the shoes/ this post in the comments as I LOVE to hear from commenters. I’d love to know, what would your ideal vegan shoe company look like?

I love floral shoes. available here

wow

not summer yet though…here.

very la dolce vita. buy here.

as are these.

so are these. very Roman woman.

am i crazy? so are these.

a classic shoe everyone could use.

on sale for $15

cute

desert boots.

cool

$10 !

jcrew like classic ankle boots for $30

I like this shape. These remind me somehow of Monica Lewinsky. In a good way.

Well, that’s all! What do you think?

 

Vegan Bike and Messenger Bags

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I watched this cool video today about Rickshaw Bags, a company who makes really good bags that are made out of recycled bottles. They make all their bags out of rectangular pieces of fabric so that not a single scrap of fabric is wasted. In this video (from dailygrommet.com, a cool site that features companies and products that are doing some good in the world) they explain that usually when people make clothing or bags or even shoes…it’s like cutting out cookies with cookie cutters…there are a lot of extra scraps that you can’t use…and can’t eat. So this company gets around this problem in a very creative way so that not a single piece of fabric is wasted. A pretty brilliant idea.

Sometimes ecofriendly products are so ugly looking. But these look great in my opinion. Plus their company seems like such an inspiring place. They are making great products, but at the same time they are only helping people and the planet, by giving their customers beautiful useful products, their employees jobs, recycling plastic bottles, not harming animals by using leather, and not creating any waste with unused fabric which probably adds up.

A very inspiring company.

What do you think of these bike bags?