Meshing eco-friendliness and fashion has definitely been done before, but green style is one of those fabulous things you can never quite get enough of. The more green fashion the better, that's what I say. The most recent find comes all the way from Chile in the form of boots made from recycled plastic bags!
We've seen other bags made from plastic bags, and even art made from plastic bags, but boots? That's a first. And surprisingly, they're not hideous. They're actually quite adorable!
Chilean industrial design student Camila Labra made the boots using a process of fusing several layers of plastic polyethylene bags together to create a thicker and more resistant material to work with. They're lined with cotton inside, which not only adds a comfort factor, but keeps your tootsies cool as well. According to Labra, the boots are impermeable, flexible, light and non toxic.
Her line is called Dacca, named after Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, which is one of the most plastic-bag-polluted cities in the world (a ban on plastic bags was put in place in 2002.)
If these boots look like something you'd like to get your feet into, you can own a pair (special ordered!) for 22,000 Chilean pesos (about 45 US dollars). Visit the designer's blog for more info (I hope you speak Spanish) at http://botasdacca.blogspot.com/.
Check out a few of her other designs... muy caliente!
via Treehugger
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i want a pair..
