What Are You Wearing Under That Hemp Dress?

If you’ve already stocked your closet with organic, eco-friendly clothing, but you’re still wearing the same old boring underwear, we’ve got a novel solution: By Nature has a line of underwear made from trees. The fabric, called Lenpur, is created from cultivated pine tree branches. The creators of Lenpur claim their process coincides with natural pruning and that no deforestation occurs. The line of lingerie, designed by Sophie Young, is supposedly soft, anti-bacterial, biodegradable, and splinter-free!

Source:  Real Business

Comments

[Dean]

Interesting, but it doesn't mention where it's manufactured or shipped from. If it's from the UK, and I order it in the US, it needs to be shipped across the the Atlantic pond.
That doesn't seem like a good idea. It also helps to support the Euro instead of the dollar...

[Meg]

I was going to post a comment but seems like Dean read my mind a few hours earlier. It's great that products like this are on the market, but purchasing a "green" product from overseas is a bit of an oxymoron if a comparable product is available locally.

[Dorothy]

How ecologically sound is buying new when your older, not eco-friendly undergarments are still usable? Everyone seems to be buying just to keep up with what's now "green". How green is that???

[Joan Hoffer]

Why buy anything new when there is good quality clothes in any Thrift Shop.

[Jeff]

I guess these are really for people who don't want people to see the bush for the forest...

sorry, I was sure someone else would be more sophmoric, more quickly than me...I guess I win.

[Merrily]

I like the concept but it would be better if it was grown and made locally. It will also take a lot of green to by those. At 26 pounds that is nearly US$35 for 1 pair of underware. These seem to be more of a designer green product then one for the masses.

[Merrily]

I like the concept but it would be better if it was grown and made locally. It will also take a lot of green to by those. At 26 pounds that is nearly US$35 for 1 pair of underware. These seem to be more of a designer green product then one for the masses.

[Tim]

Those are British pounds, not euros, so the cost would be about 54 dollars per pair. And no opening on the front! No thanks.

[Georgia]

What's wrong with the FIG LEAF?

[Helen]

What's wrong with cotton?

[Ann]

Did you notice this company has excluded small busted, A cup, women?

[trixie]

Ditto to the above comments, all are valid, especially the one that suggests sticking to 'reuse' shops/charity outlets. Its actually a lot of fun, sooo many items are actually brand new and its simply common sense and an adventure, good all around - I really doubt that creating 'green' clothes does anything to help the planet and our out of control consumer mentality. Challenge yourself, see if you can go a week, a month or a year just shopping from 'reuse' stores. You will be amazed at the potential.

[Mary Beth]

Yeah, what you said. I'm glad you're paying attention!

[michele]

I hope that if people really NEED to buy new underwear, they use the old stuff as rags instead of buying stupid disposable cleaning products like "Swiffer"!!!

I save old socks that have lost their match and use them for repairing my dog's toy stuffed animal, etc. Old nylons work great for dusting off decorative candles that look crappy from the dust that sticks to them and doesn't come off.

In the past, people used to mend and repair their old garments...and what was too old to mend or repair would be used as scraps to patch clothes, or for rags, or to make quilts or braid rugs...

I recently began darning the socks we have that have holes in them...when socks can be bought for $1 a pair, even less on sale, it's not efficient to most people--darning a big hole can take 15-20 minutes, and many people consider their time worth more than the dollar they would spend to just buy more, but it's all for the principle of it!! (You can do it while watching the news or TV, since you'd just be sitting there anyway, then it's not like a waste of time!) You feel good, that you accomplished something, though small, for the environment...my teenaged son even agreed to wear darned socks, and jeans I patched...hopefully, someday, "mended" clothes will be the fashion, considered as being "in!!!" I think it's cool that my son isn't a slave to fashion, and realizes the value of how mended clothes save money and resources!

[Dresses]

Would be interested in learning where it's manufactured.