Global Girlfriend Partners with Premier Boutiques as the Company Launches its New Line for Fall/Winter 2005

Unique fair trade boutique offers inspiring accessories, gifts and organic apparel just in time for the holidays

Littleton, Colo. (PRWEB) August 18, 2005 -- Global Girlfriend, a unique web based and mail order fair trade boutique, is pleased to announce that the company will be teaming with premier retail partners to sell their latest collection for fall/winter 2005.

The line, which supports women's human rights worldwide, will feature fashion forward items such as unique jewelry and intricately beaded accessories from Nepal and Vietnam and handcrafted ponchos from Brazil. This season, Global Girlfriend is also introducing a 100 percent organic cotton clothing line made by women at Assisi Garments, a fair trade organization started by the Assisi order of nuns in southern India. The line includes organic cotton knit jersey shirts and skirts designed exclusively by Global Girlfriend. The entire fall/winter Global Girlfriend collection can be viewed and purchased at www.globalgirlfriend.com and will soon be available in boutiques nationwide for the first time ever.

Owned and operated by longtime women's advocate Stacey Edgar, Global Girlfriend is a fashionable and fun way for shoppers to use their purchasing power to give back to their communities, both at home and across the globe. The one-of-a-kind boutique features a hand selected line of stylish items that benefit women's human rights.

We have hand selected products that not only fit your unique style but really make a difference," Edgar stated. This is such a simple way to give back when you shop for holiday gifts and now, with the addition of retail partners nationwide, customers can experience the Global Girlfriend line online, by catalog or in person at their favorite boutiques," she added.

With the ethnic inspired, bohemian style still going strong this season, we are very excited to release our new collection, just in time for the holidays. What a great way to give two gifts at once," Stacey Edgar continued.

Global Girlfriend's fall/winter line includes products from ten different countries and over 25 different women's non-profit organizations and cooperatives. The products benefit causes such as women's human rights education, child trafficking, homelessness, fair trade and poverty. Items may be purchased at www.globalgirlfriend.com and through a mail order catalog. Additionally, Global Girlfriend will soon be featured in select retailers nationwide.

About Global Girlfriend:
Global Girlfriend is a unique fair trade boutique offering stylish accessories and gifts that help women in need help themselves. All of Global Girlfriend's products are hand made by women's non-profit programs in the US and cooperatives worldwide. The line of apparel, accessories and gifts is a marriage of the talents of female artisans worldwide and the trends that grace the pages of today's fashion magazines Global Girlfriend's catalog and web based boutique lets shoppers support disadvantaged women in over twenty organizations around the world. For more information please visit www.globalgirlfriend.com.

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