Baggy Shirts

Welcome to BaggyShirts™ - Reusable Bags Made From Recycled Clothing for a Healthier Planet!  BaggyShirts™ tote bags can be used as grocery bags, bike bags, yoga bags, wine bags – use your imagination!

We are Jan Ramos, Founder, and Dana Miller, Co-Owner - friends and next-door neighbors who became extremely concerned about the serious state of our precious Planet Earth. We each had reached our personal tipping points by separately watching Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Laurie David, co-producer of the film, had recently visited Denver and was interviewed by our Mayor John Hickenlooper on the topic of global warming. She suggested that each of us pick one thing – One Thing that we could do to help reverse the effects of climate change.

Due to the harmful use of paper and plastic bags, our One Thing became BaggyShirts™, with our tagline being “Reusable Bags Made From Recycled Clothing for a Healthier Planet.”

We are proud to say that BaggyShirts™ is a sustainable enterprise, in that we:

• Purchase recycled men's shirts obtained from warehouses of surplus goods collected from charitable organizations - no petroleum-based materials.
• Use the entire shirt - absolutely no waste.
• Prevent clothing and tens of thousands of paper and plastic bags from going to the landfill each year.
• Employ LOCAL artisans to fabricate bags at home, slashing carbon emissions by 80% to 90%. No overseas manufacturing.
• Pay our fabricators a livable wage that is above average for the industry.
• Operate with the least possible amount of negative environmental impact – we ship Internet orders in recycled and recyclable materials.
• Donate a portion of our proceeds to organizations that work to stop global warming.

To us, success is achieving the triple-bottom line – to positively impact social, economic and environmental issues – and to continue to educate ourselves and others about the environmental costs of global warming.

BaggyShirts can be found in Denver at:

• Tattered Cover Bookstores
• Ahimsa Footwear
• On A Lark
• Unity