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Sites We Love: Bits and Bobbins for Thrift Fashion and DIY Design

Get some great ideas to create your own personal shade of green style.

Megan Cohen

By Megan Cohen
Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:44

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Got an eye for design? Wish you did? Get some major fashion inspiration and learn some skills at Bits and Bobbins, where Parsons grad Tricia Royal shows you the world of DIY wearables through her creative, tasteful lens. Making your own clothes is totally green, especially if you're using secondhand materials, and Bits and Bobbins shows that it's totally gorgeous, too.

Check out the coolest ideas in how people are altering and wearing vintage and secondhand duds, plus entertaining insights about how and why we dress the way we do, plus updates on indie designers who are whipping up innovative crush-worthy items like lego belt buckles, and bonus links to fun hands-on projects for wearables that'll let you really own your personal style. It's one-stop shopping for DIY fashion inspiration.

Bits and Bobbins has eye-popping weekly recaps of the best submissions to Tricia's much-buzzed-about Wardrobe Remix project, which encourages everyone to re-make old clothes into sweet new stuff, wear the results with style, and post the results on flickr to make others green with envy. Take a look at this week's roundup, then grab a needle and thread and an old garment, and whip up something awesome of your own.

Read More about Sites We Love:
Planet Green's Blogroll
We Love Ecorazzi, Where Green Gossip Reigns Supreme
Green Gearheads Unite on AutoblogGreen
Read EcoScraps: All the News, None of the Reading

Every Monday, we spotlight our Site of the Week, a fresh green website that tops our list of favorites. Visit our Blogroll to learn about more sites we love.

 
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