http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog Ethical is Beautiful Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:02:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you may have noticed, PlanetSilverChilli seem to have gone off-line. Now, it's possible that they're just re-doing their website, very slowly, without even a DNS record for their domain, but it's not likely. Moreover, we have been contacted by someone who says that they ordered a bag directly from PSC (i.e. ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2010/03/10/warning-planetsilverchilli/ Well, today's a big day for Plum Ethical. We're now selling clothes! To begin with, we'll just be selling some of the ethical maternity clothes found by our sister company, Cecily Plum.  They're designed as maternity and breastfeeding clothes, but -- interestingly -- many of them are very useful as ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2010/03/10/new-clothes-at-plum-ethical/ Widget! This is nothing to do with Plum Ethical, or bags or anything like that, it's just a cool widget from teh Met Office that you might like - if you really really want to know the weather in Aberystywyth. moDays=5; moColourScheme="default"; moFSSI=3501; moDomain="www.metoffice.gov.uk"; moMapDisplay="side"; moMapsRequired="Precip Rate LR,Temperature LR"; ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2009/12/18/64/ As some of you will know, we've recently had some trouble because one of our suppliers told us that their bags actually had some animal products in them.  They didn't have to tell, us but they did because they are good people who really care about these things.  This was ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2009/12/07/when-is-a-vegan-bag-a-vegan-bag/ We've just started (today) to sell a new line of very special bags by new company dA-LaTA.  Currently we've only got three of their range of bags, but if they go well will certainly be expanding to pretty much the full range of bags that they sell! The bags that we've ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2009/11/13/new-da-lata-bags-are-here/ Recently I have mostly been learning not to be smug.  It's taken a while, which is why there have been no posts for a few days. In my last post I was very pleased with myself that Plum Ethical is a totally vegan store.  Then one of our suppliers wrote to ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2009/10/12/vegan-issues/ Just saw this quote: "The plush, vegan-friendly leather is a unique smoky red color that will look great" Er... WHAT???   Is it just me, or is that not the biggest misunderstanding of 'vegan' in the history of mankind?  Now, this wasn't someone talking about 'vegan leather', which is understood not to be ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2009/09/16/incredulous-vegan-bag-misuse/ The wonderful new Autumn/Winter 2009 bags by The Rubber Cow Co. are in the shop at last.  We're still shooting the bags to show you what they really look like, so some of the bags have outdoor shots and some only have the bags on a white background.  They'll all ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2009/09/09/new-rubber-cow-bags-are-here/ We've been amazed how popular our men's bags have been.  We've only got four Plum Ethical man bags, but I guess the quality has been shining through.  It's gratifying after the hell careful selection process we go through that people like what we have to offer. Example: We've just done a ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2009/08/29/mens-bags/ We're going to try an offer.  We might regret it, so it might not last long!  The idea is that you buy a bag from us (we like this idea so far) then you get your friend to buy a bag too (we really like the idea now), then you ... http://plumethical.com/Plum-Ethical-Bag-Blog/2009/08/10/50-off-offer-on-all-plum-ethical-bags/