Designer Focuses On Two Great Causes, Voting and Preventing Animal Abuse

Designer Lisa Spengler is partnering with non-profit organizations, donating a generous percentage of the DivaWear profits to animal welfare organizations that stress the important of reporting criminal animal cruelty.

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) October 30, 2004 -- This is the time of year when getting out the vote is in fashion. Now Lisa Spengler also wants to make it fashionable.

Spengler, who creates designer tee shirts through her company DivaWear, www.DivaWear.net, created a "Vote" shirt that she has found women wear for reasons other than to just look good.

"I met a woman at a health spa in Utah who bought one of my shirts," says Spengler. "She told me it shirt inspired her to go online and register to vote that night."

Spengler also ran into Chris Heinz, John Kerry's stepson at an airport recently. He said he would pass it along to one of Kerry's daughters. No word yet on whether First Daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush, no strangers to fashion trends, have donned the shirt.

A former manager and buyer at Nordstrom, Spengler has shirts that proclaim "Will work for stilettos," or one that says "Maneater" with a silk screen of Diva her beloved and, according to Spengler, "sweet-natured" Doberman.

For now, though, it is the "Vote" shirt that has gotten the attention of publications such as The Washington Post. It's also caught the eye of conspicuous consumers like Annabelle Hunyh, a sales woman at the Louis Vuitton boutique in Seattle, who bought a sample while Spengler was shopping there.

Hunyh had been in the market for a Vote-type shirt but had found them "frumpy" and "not girlie." Not so the DivaWear version. "This way, we can show that we care but also be cute," says Hunyh. "Very important."

The DivaWear shirts are available at the boutique Cake in Bainbridge Island, WA - Spengler's hometown and Tickled Pink! in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, MD.

A portion of the profits from the Vote tees will go to www.pet-abuse.com, which works to fight criminal animal cruelty and educates the public about the connection between animal abuse and interpersonal/domestic violence.

For more information, visit www.DivaWear.net.

Editors: Spengler available for interviews.

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