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Having fun is what this men’s vest is all about as he goes around the tree with her wearing a utilitarian vest as well. These two are going somewhere, more than around the tree of life?

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All the vests worn by my family in this photo are the SaladBowlDress basics- Men’s Vests, Women’s, and the Bicycle Vest.

Sustainable Fashion made with clothing being kept out of the landfill. California made, hand-tailored deconstructed utilitarian vests for the Active, Creative, needing some functionality, versatility, and comfort, in style.

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What is Transeasonal Dressing

by Mary Colmar | April 7, 2021 | Blog, Fashion, Sustainable | 0 Comments

Transeasonal Dressing - Perfect for Spring and Fall - For a year around style. It is a concept to reduce production of clothing and consumption of clothing. A way of dressing to save on the amount of garments needed to live a full existence. Travelers think this...

To Cut or Not To Cut

by Mary Colmar | March 31, 2021 | Blog, Business, Fashion, Sustainable | 0 Comments

To cut or not to cut? Cut all these clothes I have? These days I am not so hesitant to cut into more expensive designer garments. Although I still say I would not cut up a Chanel suit. I have only seen a Chanel suit once in a friend's closet. She was...

March On!

by Mary Colmar | March 24, 2021 | Fashion, Garden, Sustainable | 0 Comments

Hi, Salad Bowl Dressers, Happy March, Happy International Women's History Month! For all the powerful women out there and the men who comfort us, I thank you! Salad Bowl Dress is happy to be part of this month's history (HERstory), empowering all women everywhere...

The Autumn/Winter ’21-’22+Spring/Summer’22

by Mary Colmar | March 4, 2021 | Blog, Business, Fashion, Sustainable | 0 Comments

In a few words making hand-tailored deconstructed clothing for the masses with clothing that would otherwise end up in a landfill is right on trend. I was pleasantly surprised by how much SaladBowlDress represents all the core tenets of the forecast next year.

Everyone Knows About Fast Fashion?

by Mary Colmar | February 23, 2021 | Blog, Business, Fashion, Sustainable | 0 Comments

What is fast fashion? Zara, H&M, Forever 21, to name but a few since almost every brand went down the fast fashion slide in the hope of fueling a never ending thirst for more sales feeding the frenzy and addiction of everyone wanting more clothes for little...

Is Climate Change Causing the Coldest Winter?

by Mary Colmar | February 17, 2021 | Blog, Business, Fashion, Garden, Sustainable | 0 Comments

Is climate change causing the coldest winter on record in Texas since the 1890s? Dr. Shahir Masri a Master in Environmental Sciences elucidates misconceptions about greenhouse gas emissions and offers insight into his research in his new book Beyond Debate. One...

Easy Make Kitchen Island

by Mary Colmar | January 12, 2021 | Blog, Decor, Sustainable | 0 Comments

Easy Kitchen Island If you are lucky enough to have an eat-in kitchen but find the table not very functional while you’re cooking around it with chairs. Make it an island! Easy peasy simple style. Just add bed risers under each leg used to raise a college dorm bed. ...

The Kitchen Counters Needed Painting

by Mary Colmar | January 5, 2021 | Blog, Decor, Sustainable | 0 Comments

The kitchen counters needed something. Who am I kidding, the whole kitchen needed a gut job. Because that is not happening anytime soon, I had to do some simple renovations in the meantime. Knowing I was about to install some beautiful handmade tile backsplashes in...

Kitchen Chalkboard Wall

by Mary Colmar | December 29, 2020 | Blog, Decor, Garden, Sustainable | 0 Comments

Thinking about all the quick fun decorating projects I have done, usually before the Holidays, I found this unpublished blog. The wall is still a lot of fun with the quote, “Creation or Consumption, does that make me a cannibal or a can of bull?” Not worth...

Handmade Hodgepodge Tile Backsplash

by Mary Colmar | December 22, 2020 | Blog, Decor, Sustainable | 0 Comments

One of my friends has a very cute house that she is always fixing up. But with the pandemic, it was hard to justify doing some projects while it was ok to try other projects. Since Home Depot was always open throughout considered an essential business she thought it...

Routines Evade Me!

by Mary Colmar | December 15, 2020 | Blog, Garden, Sustainable | 0 Comments

Routines evade me. I love the inventiveness of the moment. I love my cardboard box my cool Canon eosM50 camera came in! It is the perfect box height for most of my laptop work when I am sitting on a couch. The high table in my workspace is also not quite high enough...

Fashion and Climate Change

by Mary Colmar | December 8, 2020 | Blog, Business, Fashion, Sustainable | 2 Comments

Combatting “Greenwashing” with Transparency Fashion and Climate change couldn’t be a more timely subject. Click on the letters below to see the presentation I gave for Sustainable Living. Many of the links in this piece are available on the slideshow. -Slide show for...

More Pressing Matters

by Mary Colmar | December 1, 2020 | Blog, Business, Decor | 0 Comments

It has been over a year since I moved out of the living room into the new studio. Although we didn’t get a chance to have a big opening party in the new digs. Honestly too, at first, it was such a mess to move and there was so much to do last Fall that I thought the...

Each Piece Deserves a Story

by Mary Colmar | November 24, 2020 | Blog, Business, Fashion | 0 Comments

I’m constantly thrown into my past, thinking about the foundation of Salad Bowl Dress, and building a business while parenting. I have three kids, now all young adults who still need help and parenting, but when I was starting my business again they were all little...

Why Write a Blog?

by Mary Colmar | November 19, 2020 | Blog, Business, Decor, Fashion | 0 Comments

Why Write a Blog? Of course, I had to make money the artist/mom way all these years, not the business way. I made one-off goods to sell. Many customers became my friends and owned multiple garments, then COVID hit. This year may have been my biggest year yet. I...

Sustainable Fashion/What Am I Doing?

by Mary Colmar | November 6, 2020 | Blog, Fashion, Sustainable | 0 Comments

We are writing new blogs weekly to share information about...

The State of Fashion /Coronavirus Update

by Mary Colmar | November 1, 2020 | Blog, Fashion, Sustainable | 0 Comments

State of Market Informa Markets Fashion Coronavirus update with Nick Blunden, president, BofF Wednesday, October 14, 2020 The State of Fashion with Nick Blunden summary: I tuned in to the Business of Fashion’s Nick Blunden talk about what a huge impact Covid is...

Collection/Vests

by Mary Colmar | October 28, 2020 | Collection | 0 Comments

The Fast Fashion Money Crunchers

by Mary Colmar | October 20, 2020 | Blog, Fashion, Sustainable | 0 Comments

The Fast Fashion Money Crunchers For years I worked in the fashion industry as a professional patternmaker and tailor in NYC and Los Angeles. I have worked for some iconic brands like Betsy Johnson, Ellen Tracy, and here in the O.C. at St. John Knits were making the...

Hand Sewing is Slow Fashion

by Mary Colmar | October 14, 2020 | Blog, Fashion, Sustainable | 0 Comments

Hand Sewing is Slow Fashion Hand sewing is easy! Surprisingly how little of it anyone does anymore. It is a basic skill we could use all the time… for hemming? You would not believe how we all make excuses for not hemming something. It seems so hard. Well, I am here...

In the Future Call It Fashion or Clothing?

by Mary Colmar | October 7, 2020 | Blog, Sustainable | 0 Comments

Intersectional Connection is what sustainable fashion is really all about. We consume with our money and we do not always check for the transparency of manufacturing and energy use in the corporations we are patronizing. For every...

Queen of the Bargain Hunters

by Mary Colmar | September 26, 2020 | Blog, Decor, Sustainable | 0 Comments

A world of abundance is what I see. In my own home, as I sit here thinking about not having the corporate job or simply not making more money and still buying things, I am in awe of how little I spend on buying things and how much I am handed by people who do not want...

Deconstructed Clothing or Upcycle

by Mary Colmar | September 21, 2020 | Blog, Fashion | 0 Comments

My name is Mary Colmar, and I make deconstructed clothing. It is something I have always done. Making exactly what I want with what is lying around: tons of unwearable clothing. Sometimes when people do this it can look kind of ridiculous, but it also shows so much...

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