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• Kim White vintage automotive handbags

  Banovsky on June 23, 2009

  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.

  

  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!

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• Evening bags made from recycled tires and hemp

  AshleyW on June 2, 2009

  For a night on the town, I like a small black bag because it usually goes with everything. I've discovered some ideal evening bags — but these ones happen to be made from recycled rubber.

  

  Vulcana clutch

  Vulcanabags is based in the U.S. and makes unique bags from recycled rubber. Found in landfills, this rubber is processed into large sheets that can end up as pretty much any style of bag. Their evening bag comes in a soft black or brown color with an inner zippered pocket, perfect for all my small accessories that won't fit. The price? Just over $70.

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• Luxury handbags made from tractor tire inner tubes

  AshleyW on May 14, 2009

  When I think of tractors, the images that come to mind are: wheat, tall grass, large fields, and corn. Never — ever — have I associated tractors with luxury bags, but that's about to change.

  

  Passchal's "The Scrunch"

  It all started in 1999. Angela Greene, an inventor, along with Ken Kobrick, a former welder decided to create bags made out of discarded tractor inner tube tires after Greene bought a backpack made out of inner tubes. Passchal was created soon after, and the variety of bags you can buy made out of inner tubes is fascinating. They launched Passchal in 2004 and have recycled 26 tons of inner tubes creating these innovative luxury bags.

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