The Salt Lake Tribune
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
In the bag
The Tribune's Cassandra Crockett filed this story about Angus and Tara Beavers, a Park City couple who have developed a line of eco-friendly purses and totes from recycled burlap feed and produce bags.

The WeBe Bags line is making a splash worldwide, thanks to the celebrity exposure received at the last Sundance Film Festival.

Stars such as Jude Law, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Colin Firth (whose wife owns a "green" department store) have bought the bags. And rapper 50 Cent ordered 50 purses - each with "50 cents" printed on the burlap.

Now, 350 boutiques are carrying the bags, and the Beavers have hired 10 full-time seamstresses to sew the bags.

(Photo: Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune)
posted by Sean P. Means @ 11:01 AM |

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