Do you wear your love for Shelter Island on your sleeve? Now, you can wrap yourself in garments that are dyed in botanical colors made from natural materials found on the Island.
This summer, visit Hiywet Mimi Girma’s pop-up shops at Moussa Drame’s fitness center in the Dering Harbor Inn on Winthrop Road, to see the fashions made in her YESAET workshops in Brooklyn. Ms. Girma explained that she has found just the right sources for her fabric dyes on the Island: Maria’s Kitchen supplies avocado skins and seeds; Sylvester Manor contributes beets and onionskins; and Shelter Island Florist proprietor Becky Smith provides flowers that are no longer fresh enough to sell, but still retain the color to dye the fabrics.
CREDIT the Source: Seeds of strength and beauty: Fashions steeped in Island roots