Cinema Inspired Accessories

Pitch Perfect is this season's unexpected box office hit, and it's doing more than expanding the musical horizons of its audiences.

It's quickly popularizing a trend we can get behind. The modern, youthful styles in the movie were largely focused on a collection of eye-catching, flattering textile accessories. Based on layering lighter pieces, it creates a warmer fall look with spring and summer pieces, making your wardrobe last longer and go farther.

Handmade, fair trade goods from Shopping for a Change® are the perfect choice for the kind of fabric-based accessories that are elevating the average scarf to something more like jewelry. Knitwear is taking center stage with this trend, with highlighted layers made up of knit, crochet, and yarnworks that serve double duty as functional and fashionable pieces.

Scarves like the Any Which Way Scarf from Emilime are the perfect example. Versatile and eye-catching, it's the perfect fall accessory. With its 3 knitted buttons that can be fastened anywhere on the wrap, this alpaca wrap will become one of the most versatile pieces you own.

Handcrafted scarves, wraps, and sweaters from artisan shops at Shopping for a Change® do more than provide the top trends in fashion. Every purchase supports fair trade fashion, the artisans and their communities as well as nonprofit organizations right here in the United States.

Next time you go shopping, go Shopping for a Change!


Shopping for a Change® (SFAC) empowering others, transforming lives® is a web-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization where artisans (predominantly women) from developing countries, sell their handmade creations enabling them to earn a sustainable income and lift themselves from poverty. The net proceeds subsidize community improvement projects abroad as well as help fund select U.S.-based non-profit organizations of the web shopper’s choosing from SFAC’s partner list.