Introducing the World‘s First ’Green Bikini’

The Blaze

Eco-friendliness is hardly a new concept, but with bathing suit season in full swing, it’s finally here: The first “green bikini.”

Linda Loudermilk, an “eco-couture” designer, said she will debut the world’s first fully compostable bathing suit Friday night during a Swim Week runway show. The Miami Herald reports:

It’s fashioned from a plant starch, she said, that has been turned into a fabric so new she just got her hands on it four days earlier. She said the suit won’t dissolve on a woman’s body, but bury it under dirt, like in a land fill, and it would break down within 180 days — leaving not a single spandex strap, blot of chemical dye or foam bra cup insert behind.

“You can use it again or you can throw it away,’’ said Loudermilk, a pioneer of the eco-fashion movement. “It’s very inexpensive so it’s something you can give to your guests but it has a fashion forward look.

More here