Day trip to Brighton last week-end

Last Saturday decided that I would go and have a wonder and check all the lovely suppliers of Eco- fashion at the Howies Sample Sale which was taking place at Fabrica. What a horrible grey day but as I love a spot of shopping even that couldn't put the dampener on the event.

I was hoping to get a lovely working shirt as a surprise for my boyfriend and maybe a cool dress that I could wear for work smartish but casual. Welllllllll.

Unfortunately the boyfriend did not get anything everything in the Howie sale was rathercasual and far too jeany for his line of work. Prices were good though if you fancied either a jacket or trousers but really I was not in search of either.

I did bump into a rather interesting label called Bam bambooclothing that had some gorgeous rather plain long tshirts in a chocolaty brown colour not really that cheap at £20 a shot but the texture was divine almost like cashmere. Funnily enough I always thought that Bamboo fabric was rather non ethical as it seems to me that the pandas who only eat this are on the endangered species list and cant get enough to keep going. But I was assured it came from a sustainable source and that it grew almost to full height in twenty four hours. Well unfortunately the top was so yummy and I thought surely they wouldn't be here if that weren't true so kind of you can guess the rest.

People tree were there too and they some rather lovely dresses but unfortunately rather too floaty for my look and luckily the sizing was all wrong so I moved on to Terra Plana.

Actually I have always rather fancied there recycled shoes they are a bit clumpy but its a great idea. Silly because I have never tried them and they are just around the corner in Covent Garden. Anyhow great opportunity here. I opted for their Vivo barefoot because apparently you can run in them too very attractive prospect too for my forthcoming Spanish trip as I am planning to keep up running and the thought of being weighed down by my trainers in my minuscule suitcase is unbearable. The colours are great a nice black pair one problem they don't do half sizes so one was to small and the other too large...and they had some hefty bargains on drat!!!!!

Okayyy so feeling a little bit bemused by my rather poor shopping bargains, I decided to venture into Brighton and check out a couple of new boutiques had wanted to see........