In a move that harks back to the shopping experience of the 1970s, UK supermarket Morrisons is selling string bags for fruit and vegetable totes to replace plastic bags. The food retail chain has ...

The £1 reusable, washable string bags are designed so produce can be carried home ‘just like in the 1970s and ’80s’ (Getty/iStock) I think polystyrene trays had probably been introduced by then, and I ...

In just one e-mail, reader Elizabeth Chlipala recently married our love of refusing plastic bags in stores and our love of knitting. The New Lenox knitter shared her own magic string bag pattern. The ...

RBTH correspondent Inna Fedorova takes a look at the history and significance of the accessory bag in Russia, from early examples found by archeologists to modern-day favorites, from functional Soviet ...

Ever dreamed of living in a world where buying an ‘it’ bag also meant you could pay your rent and not survive off a diet of reduced Itsu for the rest of the month? Well, the string shopping bags that ...

Just when you scraped together enough to buy a Gucci Dionysus, a new bag takes over the 'gram - and it holds your farmer's market haul just as easily as it does a beach towel and book. Cotton string ...