Cotton Ginny Offering Eco-Ganic Clothing

My son has quite a bit of organic cotton clothing and 99.5% of it has been ordered online. This means I’ve paid shipping charges through the ying-yang and wasted environmentally toxic fuels to get it to our house. So much for being a green mama.

At my newborn daughter’s baby shower this past weekend she received some amazingly adorable and thoughtful gifts. I really do have the best friends and family. My best friend gave her a huge box stuffed full of clothes made of organic cotton. Most of them were purchased on a shopping trip to the US but a few things jumped out at me because they had Cotton Ginny “Eco-Ganic” tags on them.

Cotton Ginny is a strictly Canadian clothing retailer and they have a store in many of the crappiest little malls in Canada. Most of their clothing isn’t anything I’d wear very often. A lot of it is t-shirt material and styles that I’d call “fat-chick clothes” if I was seventeen and skinny, or “Grandma clothes” if I was thirty one and kind of a fat-chick myself. If I was more politically correct, I’d just call them casual and comfortable.

I was so pleased to see that they had launched this “Eco-Ganic” line that I’m off to the mall this week to buy some more clothing for both of my kids and maybe even myself. After all, a stay at home mom that doesn’t fit into any of her nice clothes has to have some casual and comfortable clothing to wear while she sits on the couch and eats bon bons with the kids all day, right? (Actually, I’ve been told they’ve updated their styles a lot since I was in high school and I’m sure they’re quite lovely now.)

More info can be found in this article from theGreenPages.ca from Fall 2006 when the line launched. Laurie Dubrovac, Director of Marketing and Communications for Cotton Ginny says: “The new line is doing extremely well. Our goal is to make all of our products Eco-Ganic within the next three to five years.” In March, Cotton Ginny is launching a Sustainable Signature Collection, featuring hemp clothing. I send huge props to Cotton Ginny for taking this step!

Written by Nicole, who blogs about whatever strikes her fancy at Much More Than a Mom. She’s a mom first, and then a whole bunch of other crazy stuff, including a teacher, fitness & yoga instructor and a pregnant mom of 1.5 kids. She is also the founder & senior editor at The Opinionated Parent, where one of her favorite things to do is give great stuff away.