Shopping month is here. Now think of all the waste you’ll make with all the boxes, wrapping papers and plastic bags from your shopping expeditions. Do you really want to continue making our winter hot? Before shopping for anything, you’d better equip yourself with some serious shopping gear, starting with the bags.
Save Mother Earth! Invoke your inner hippie with this psychedelic canvas bag (B550, Thanabordee). Just don’t tell your flower friends that the little pocket there is made of leather.
“No Plastic Fantastic” too clichéd for you? Try a bag with words that are more unique—although they won’t necessarily make sense (B380, Fungus).
Prove your heart is as big as your wallet (or vice-versa) by carrying one of these hand-embroidered un-bleached bags. The “I Care” collection (B220, Heart Affair) ranges from mini totes to hold your recycled notebooks to big bags for your picket signs.
Forget Anya Hindmarch’s B7,000 “I’m Not A Plastic Bag” bags. You can make the same statement for B200 (Mademoiselle), though it might not look as chic or sophisticated. If your goal is to save the planet, then who cares?
Or if you’d rather go shopping slogan-free, grab this plain green cotton sack (B380, Fungus).
Twelve local designers teamed up to bring you this green sling bag (B340, Kloset), which just shouts, “Green is the new black.”
Essentials
Fungus. Siam Square Soi 4, Rama 1 Rd., 08-4634-3377. Open daily 11am-9pm.
Heart Affair. Siam Square Soi 3, Rama 1 Rd., 02-658-3986. Open daily 11:30am-8:30pm.
Kloset. 3/F Siam Center, Rama 1 Rd., 02-658-1729. Open daily 10am-9pm.
Mademoiselle. Siam Square Soi Little Siam (Between Soi 1 and 2), Rama 1 Rd., 08-1442-8257. Open daily 1pm-8pm.
Thanabodee. Between Siam Square Soi 4 and 5, Rama 1 Rd., 02-251-7922. Open daily 1pm-9pm.
