Award-winning, "green" wearable art bags from vintage & rescued "treasures". 

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Dressed Up Cat's bag
"Summertime" (right)  is a
2008
Independent Handbag Designers Awards Finalist for
  Best Green Handbag
  New York, NY   June 18, 2008

"
Summertime" was shown at the IDHA awards
and in The Fifth Avenue, NYC window of competition sponsor Henri Bendel!  (Above left, "the" Dressed Up Cat herself, Tracy Penwell, with Summertime--top row, center--in the window at Bendel's.)                                                             

Click HERE for the 6/19/08  CBS News Story & Video

Click HERE for the 5/12/08 KTVK Ch. 3TV  Phoenix Video
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The Collections
(Click on any bag to enter)


 
(Shown:  "All Gussied Up")

Going On Safari


(Shown:  "Along Came a Spider"

ALL the Time!

("Shown:  "Casual Time")

My Backyard


(Shown:  "I'm Petrified!")

Good Luv/Love Gone Bad


(Shown: "The Great Taupe Hope")

Western Glam

  (Shown: "Good Feather Day")

FREE GROUND SHIPPING. 
FULL REFUND ON RETURNS
(WITHIN 14 DAYS OF PURCHASE).
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Don't you LOVE handbags? 

Aren't they are
the best guilty pleasure EVER?
But are you also becoming an "envi" You know, you love fashion, but you're also getting a little worried about its envi-ronmental impact? 
Aren't we all now starting to worry a little bit for our precious Earth?

I am.  So I created Dressed Up Cat Fashion Re-fashioned. It's award-winning fashion, where beautiful handbags meet quirky humor and art-sy style in one-of-a-kind, wearable works of art.  It's style that's so, so chic--while being green.  Green?  Yes, green.  Here's how:  my handbags-- with all of the embellishments --are all recycled.  Yes, recycled.  Re-claimed.  Re-purposed.   Rescued.  Re-fashioned.  

Dressed Up Cat handbags are all high quality, beautifully made, typically all leather bags that I have personally "rescued" from abandonment and neglect as recent outcasts from someone's closet.  (SO sad...)  The same goes for all the things I use as embellishments.  Jewelry, feathers from a boa, big belt buckles; all rescued.

With a refined sense of color and texture, balance and pattern (wow...that sounds great!) and a healthy sense of humor (I worked for years on that part...), I personally design and then execute (sounds so brutal...) each of these wearable works of art.  And then I wait --sometimes days--for the perfect name for each bag. (And yes, if you must know, I've been known to burst out laughing in the supermarket!) 

Each finished handbag carries the Dressed Up Cat logo label and is accompanied by a signed and dated certificate with its title and description.  A hand-made animal print (naturally!) dust cover sewn of remnant fabric protects each bag from the elements, both en route to your closet, and after arrival.  And that's how new Dressed Up Cats come into the world!  (It's like raising kittens, only not as messy....)

Just click on any bag below and browse through my site; you will have lots of (nearly guilt-free) fun.   Go ahead--pick out your first one.  I'll have it to you in no time!  Once you start wearing your new bag, you'll hear "Where did you GET that fabulous bag?" every day, just like I do.  And since every Dressed Up Cat is one-of-a-kind, you'll leave all your admirers beyond envious because YOU'VE got the ONLY ONE!

And one more thing, Glamor Girl....
I just heard the Earth--very, very softly--say "Thanks".

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Love Dressed Up Cat handbags? 
Want to have them ALL??  
You CAN! I'm working on my first coffee table book, featuring photos and commentary on my favorites. Email me TODAY to get on the waiting list!
info@dressedupcat.com
 
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Prefer to speak to a real, live human?  Call toll free: 1.866.994.8899
our "brick & mortar" representative, Rima Fine Art in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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A note on OUR "greenness"....   So what about OUR carbon footprint? 
Sure, we have one:  it's gas in the Cat's car when she's out "treasure hunting". 
And then there's the adhesives and thread, and shipping from us to you.  We're
not sure just yet how to measure our footprint.  But for now, we DO know
this much:  a Dressed Up Cat's footprint is WAY smaller than that created in
making, packaging, shipping, marketing & selling a brand new bag. 


Ultimately, our goal is to measure our environmental impact and use
carbon offsets to allow us to be "carbon neutral".  We think its a start.

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Note:  These handbags and all of their embellishments are recycled. Each bag has been altered with embellishments thus creating a new artwork. Dressed Up Cat designs are strictly the property of the artist.  For merchandising and licensing inquiries, call 866.994.8899.
No warranties or guarantees are made beyond our return policy.  See FAQ Page for complete policies.
Contact:  Dressed Up Cat Fashion Re-Fashioned, 7077 E. Main Street, Suite 1, Scottsdale  AZ  85251
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