Fall is officially here, the weather is cooling down (a bit), exciting things are ahead, and I finally get to start pulling out my favorite sweaters and jackets. After seeing this new organic cotton line by Juleselin though, I may have to donate my old jackets, and adopt one of these.
Designer Julie Elin Burnbaum began Juleselin in 2007 to design a line of “completely comfortable, simply fabulous, ageless, practical and work appropriate” jackets made using organic/recycled fabric. Julie not only designs with the environment in mind, she uses recycled paper products, sits on recycled furniture, reads via low energy halogen lighting, and packages using recycled boxes & materials. She makes every effort to be as low impact as possible, and makes it easier for you and me to look good while doing good with her fabulous line of organic/recycled jackets.
I love Julie’s attention to details, like shiny buttons, off-center zippers, pretty bows, and versatile styling (one of her jackets can be worn 6 different ways). I am a bit concerned that the jackets are dry clean only though; I avoid dry cleaning as much as possible, and hand wash all of my 100% cotton sweaters and jackets with baby shampoo and lay them out to dry. I imagine that washing these might make them wrinkled and hard to get back into shape, but I have several 100% cotton Mike & Chris jackets with similar styling that do not lose their style or wrinkle easily when I wash and dry them. Just something to think about…
Available at:
BTC Elements (use code “grechen” for 20% off)
Shop Robertson
Living Green Marketplace
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