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New Year New Hopes

Just like you, we have high hopes for a year 2010 being a better year than the last one in more respects than one. Natural Clothing Company was not immune from retail troubles of 2009. Our beautiful town of Snohomish, Wa suffered quite a few losses as well. We moved, we tighten the belt, economized whatever we could and continue to do  everything possible to save you and us expenses (see below).

But being blessed by living in Pacific Northwest we also are enjoying special gifts - the first cherry blossoms in Seattle and excitement of Flower and Garden Show next week. As gardeners, we anticipate the spring with its joys and promises like a long lost family member. And we know that after thankless time of improving soil, working on drainage, mixing compost - rewards will come. The nature does responds and works with us if we only give her a chance. That's why growing our organic clothing business is so important to us as well - it's a chance to protect the environment a little bit more.

Thank You so much for caring about it and supporting organic lifestyle, not the chemical lifestyle, at any scale. Look around you and where you see the beauty of Nature - that is her thanks to you!

Happy Valentine!

Green Fashion and community

Organic clothing and living sustainably while looking great was the focus of an eco friendly evening in the historic town of Snohomish, Washington. Natural Clothing Company hosted by Grilla Bites Cafe presented a selection of their organic clothing, made from organic fibers like hemp, organic cotton and bamboo. Green ideas were flowing also from other presenters: recycling and re-use ideas, darling children's wear from a local thrift store and handsome kitchen aprons made from recycled shirts.  The evening was filled with laughter and common interest in living eco-friendly while being in style and having fun.  Flavorful organic food, wine samples  and lively music created an unforgettable experience. See more photos from the show at www.NaturalClothing Company.com/green_fashion_show .

Your orders will cost less!

We had a chance to re-evaluate our shipping and handling charges for previous year. It is NOT our intention to have overrides on shipping. Often if the item is very light or local, we manually reduce the cost of shipping on the order. Since they are set per $ of purchase cost, the exact equation comes from averaging weight/size of the orders. The good news we found a way to drop the shipping costs! We really understand that every dollar counts for you as well. Check out the current rates at http:// NaturalClothingCOmpany.com/policies

FYI we use US Post Office for majority of the shipping for several reasons - smallest footprint: the Post Office already delivers mail to every single household in US, no extra trips created. Many of their trucks are hybrid, their packaging is Cradle to Cradle certified, they use soy ink for package printing. We think its worth supporting.

Winter discount

(for email receipients only)

How to stretch the dollars over and over? It's quite a trick, isn't it? We understand!

Fall is here - it would be nice to supplement your organic wardrobe. We have new supply of hemp clothing and beautiful very affordable certified organic cotton clothing. Our whole purpose of existence is to help with alternatives to polyester (brrr...) and conventional (read toxic...) fibers.Here are few rewards for your loyalty as a subscriber:

• If you a recipient of our e-Newsletter take advantage of our coupon. Pile it up with any other coupon. How do you get these? Write a review on items you purchased, send us a photo of how you use our clothing. When you help us to serve you better- we'll be more than happy to reward you!

• Send us (to CustomerService@NaturalClothingCompany.com) the date of your and your loved ones Birthday - we'll send you a special offer for your Birthday month
• Sign up as our Fan on Facebook, we post offers there as well
  
• Keep visiting our Sale Page, the offers change often.
• Look at the opportunity of combining few items to get several outfits. Use versatile items that can stretch wardrobe from the office to weekend or evening. Our Ideas/Suggestions page coming soon. We'd love your contributions!

Most of all, don't buy into "life is hard or sad" concept fed us by newspapers and media. We finally arived at sensible point in time where there is a lot of agreement to being sustainable, reasonable and not wasting (or accumulating) "stuff". But have fun with it! Natural fibers like hemp will last for long time. natural clothes allows your skin to breathe, even help deter bacteria. Your body says "Thank You!". And... the organic farmer and manufacturer says "Thank You,  for letting me not use toxins for our air, waters and your skin". Hey, can't beat that value! 

Last but not least: "Thank YOU so much!" for being our customer. Without you, we simply don't exist.

August 2009

e-Newsleter from Natural Clothing Company 

Topics:

• • True value of organics
  • Jambange
  • Summer sale and new items
  • Reward Discount
  • Green America People's Choice Award

True Value of Organics

What is a real value of using. buying. growing organic products? Well, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine does not think that soaking, spraying, waxing and injecting food with chemicals is much of a concern, as far as their food study. Completing extensive review of previous studies on organic vs. conventional food they found "no evidence that organically produced foods are nutritionally superior to conventionally produced foodstuffs."  Really?... Of course the review rejected many existing studies of comparisons between organic and non-organic nutritional differences because it did not meet their criteria. As a supporter of green life, you know that the value is mostly in what's NOT there (food or clothing fibers): carcinogenic pesticides, insecticides, genetically modified organisms. Thank you so much for supporting and validating the right to live without questionable chemicals and ignoring questionable studies.  

Read Organic Consumer Association for good article on a subject http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18745.cfm

 

Jambange

The best part of green business are people we meet. Anne from San Francisco introduced us to the project building a new medical center at the base of the Himalayas between Nepal and India. When our family moved away from Seattle few years ago, our son was in a serious health condition. We measured prospective homes in terms of how long would it take us to get him to the Children's Hospital in emergency. For kids in Jambange a trip to medical help might be impossible right now. Here is what Anne says: "As a yoga instructor, and customer of the natural clothing company I support the Jambange Project. We are raising funds to build a medical center at the village, and we hope to see in the future the village becoming sustainable by itself. Donating a contribution to the Jambange Project will help all the people at the village to get medical care. You can contact OmGuru for donations. Check out the Jambange website www.jambange.com . Thank You all!" 

Another beautiful part of green movement is that Anne is French, I am Polish, you are who you are. The project is in Himalayas and there are no boundaries to compassion.

 

Summer Sale and new items!

You asked for it and we try to deliver! Many people answered survey asking for fun but professional looking clothing, well fit and suitable for work environment. Luckily, the organic business is versatile now, past the "potato sacks clothing" (as our dear customer called it...).  

We also increased and will keep improving our selection of socks and underwear. When you think of it, feet takes the most of our weight, they are in strongest contact and friction with textiles. No wonder so many people develop rashes and skin problems on their feet when using conventional cotton.

Check out our new sale items. We try to pass on to you any and all savings we can. It makes our heart sink seeing 50% or 70% off sales on conventional clothing in stores. We cannot do that. We don't have that kind of margin or volume and organic grower needs to feed his family in order to continue. But on a positive side, our sales keep growing tiny bit from month to month, bucking the economy trend. Thankfully YOU are the organic people, who don't buy into the profile of "stressed and depressed" customers newspapers write about. Thank you very much for your continuous support!

Reward discount!

When you subscribe to our email newsletter you get occassional discounts, promotions and special sale annoncments. Sign up today!

Green America People's Choice Award

Green America is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 of previous name "Co-op America". you probably know that name. This is Green America's beautiful vision:

" We work for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the bounty of the Earth is preserved for all the generations to come."

If you would like to do so, nominate us for their People's Choice Award. The nomination period is only through August 09. Thanks!

 

 

How about you? Add your comments and ideas!

You probably are reading this site because you care. What do YOU think of organic clothing, GMO crops, our environment? Please, share your ideas and comments by sending them to My viewpoint or visit our blog www.NaturalClothingBlog.com

    

Note: If you do not wish to receive occasional discounts and news from Natural Clothing Company, click " Unsubscribe" or reply and type "Unsubscribe" in a Subject line. Thank You!

June 2009

e-Newsleter from Natural Clothing Company 

Topics:

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  • Zero waste? Done!
  • Organic life and Monsanto
  • Organic clothing expensive?
  • Earn a Reward!
  • Earth Song
  • Your Comments and Ideas

• Zero waste? done!

A tiny town of Kamikatsu, Japan decided few years ago to limit their waste. They started with separating all household waste into 34 different categories designated for recycling. They found it cheaper and more environmentally friendly than alternatives. Look at the picture of their bins. A bit of work but what if... all the towns do that? What if... all of us did that? What our planet will look like? On a personal note, since we moved to the country, our joy of reusing material things increased: scraps go to animals, reused paper scraps go to compost, rich compost goes to our soil and soil gives us these awesome vegetables. The unity of this cycle puts the soul at ease.

• Organic Life and Monsanto

One of the best parts of running Natural Clothing Company is meeting marvelous people. One of our customers wrote us: "This is the ultimate reason why I decided to go all-organic and am so strict about it and not casual. I suffer from severe (!) allergies and hypersensitivities to most preservatives, synthetic chemicals and such stuff. I got VERY sick a while back and nobody figured it out until we tripped over it by sheer coincidence. I ended up with asthma (down to 30% lung capacity), skin reactions, constant stomach issues, dehydration and ended up on IVs. Switching to organic fixed all that for the most part and I only get issues every so often when I am forced to eat non-organic, which is still a hit or miss. Lung capacity is back at 100% and blood tests showed me as picture book healthy now. Still, most people I know, think that organic is a rip-off! Can you believe it?"
I can. Follow this link from the Organic Lifestyle Magazine and read about Monsanto, world's biggest creator of genetically modified organisms and toxic sprays. From long term chemical company, they morphed into "agricultural" company, buy out the seed companies and effectively our rights to pure food. If you eat - you need to click here.

• Organic clothing expensive?

I hear a lot that organic clothing is more expensive or "too expensive". More expensive than what? Take a look at our items: great youth bamboo/organic cotton Tee shirts for $17.00, awesome hemp/bamboo knit blouse for $28.00 or men's bamboo/organic cotton shorts for $29.00. These are honest prices, affordable and fair. $5.00 toxic, sweat shop produced tee is the insult for their manufacturers. If we want our green manufacturers to have a chance, if we want the organic growers to continue what they are doing - well, we have to support them!

• On that note, if you can take four minutes and fill out the five question customer survey, click here or paste this link: http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=76789111-1d41-40c7-afc3-5baf19322a58 This will help us serve you better and focus on inventory that you
  like and want, instead of guessing. Your input is tremendously important!

• Earn a reward!

If you receive this letter, probably you have purchased something from us. If you write a review of that item, good or bad - you will help other customers make better choices. Then in return, you will be helped by other reviews when you look for something. Just click under the item you have, there is a "write a review" option or if you prefer, you can email it straight to us. We will reward each customer who writes a reviews with additional discount on next purchase or free gift. Thank you very much!

• Earth Song

The footage of photos is incredible and authentic. Speaks of and for all of us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqeADZgjtpY

 

 

 

How about you? Add your comments and ideas!

You probably are reading this site because you care. What do YOU think of organic clothing, GMO crops, our environment? Please, share your ideas and comments by sending them to My viewpoint or visit our blog www.NaturalClothingBlog.com

    

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