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Kim White vintage automotive handbags

From Banovsky, Featured Contributor
Posted on June 23, 2009
Filed under History, Misc, accessories, women, handbags, bag, women, women

Ok, so I may not be the most fashion-conscious. Or fashion literate. But I do know a few things about rocking recycled material for bags, as I've been living with a Freitag bag for a few months now.

kim white handbags

Pretty cool vintage fabrics make cooler designs

Still, I'm not a woman. So it was cool to find these vintage handbags made from old automotive fabric stock.

Designer Kim White uses never-used textiles that were intended for use in American vehicles. Her website says:

"She fortuitously unearthed an entire warehouse of automotive fabric, which may be the last existing stock anywhere in the US, and she is the sole owner of these amazing textiles."

A great story, and even better is that each handbag is tagged with the year and make of the fabric, so you can tell your friends your bag's fabric could have been a Camaro, Mustang…or Gremlin.

Well, maybe you wouldn't tell them it was supposed to be the seats in a Gremlin.

Click on for more…including a "Camaro" bag!

Textiles that are used for cars are incredibly durable, and White's work seems to put style, form, and function on equal terms. All designs are manufactured in the US.

kim white handbag camaro

"Cah-MARO!"

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Banovsky is a featured contributor for vLane.
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    From Michelle Naranjo
    Commented on June 23, 2009

    I would have never expected that you would recommend a bag that I would love so much :-D Those are wonderful- thanks for the heads up. ~MissMotorMouth

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    From salguod
    Commented on June 23, 2009

    Somewhere a gen 3 Camaro nut looking for replacement seats is screaming.

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