Coffee Tao

Your coffee not racy enough? Need a little more spice in your Sumatran? There’s one way to give your love affair with your daily cup a little more oomph and go a little more green in the process: give it a corset.

Jennifer George sews “coffee corsets” for your cup that takes the place of the conventional Java Jacket, letting you hold your coffee without the need to double cup. In that sense it’s actually a sustainable solution, which is what drew my attention to this quirky craft–Java Jackets help reduce paper waste caused by double-cupping but they too get thrown away, while a coffee corset can be reused. And because it ties like a corset (using a shoelace), you can adjust its size to fit any cup.

It’s a conversation piece, that’s for sure. And although Jennifer makes a line of–I’m not sure how this gets decided–“Unisex” coffee corsets, I admit you’re probably not going to see me waiting for the bus holding one. Still, it’s an original idea and a neat spin on the concept of sustainability.