16 Food-Themed Clothing and Accessories to Gift
These delicious bags, slippers and hats are hard to resist!
Susan Alexandra
The three-piece suit and tie. The little black dress. The leather jacket and aviators. Everyone’s got those pieces they wear for a little pep in their step because it’s wearing what makes you feel good that fuels you with unbridled confidence and joy. You know what else does the trick? Food. Namely, food-themed apparel. Without needing to say a word about your culinary taste, clothing and accessories help to get the point across. Sporting a martini-shaped clutch. Strutting the street in long purple socks dotted with sandwiches. Stopping mid-cycle excursion to chug water from your ketchup shaped bottle. Now that’s a fashion statement, or are we forgetting Lady Gaga’s meat dress? While we don’t take "wearing your food" to that extreme, here are 16 of the best food-themed swag to flavor up your wardrobe and also gift to fellow fashionable foodies.
The summer produce season might be over for now. But your love for tomatoes knows no bounds! Project Paulie’s snuggly tomato beanie will keep you company until the warmer days come when you can chow down on all the BLTs and Caprese salads you want.
The sweater that broke the internet. Jake Gyllenhaal collaborated with his favorite NYC bagel spot, Russ & Daughters, to design a classy black hoodie that, true to form to a good bagel, can be dressed up or dressed down. Proceeds from each sweater sold will directly support the Actors Fund and its support of NYC theater workers impacted by the pandemic. How’s that for an added schmear of goodness?
And if you plan on wearing Jake’s lox hoodie on lazy weekends, here’s a pair of comfy, carby sweatpants to complete the look.
The perfect accessory to go with your LBD is a little clutch shaped just like the world’s classiest cocktail.
Sorry not sorry, but plain-colored bicycle bottles are boring! Get a punny condiment-designed squeezie bottle instead! Choose from ketchup, relish or mustard. Quippy phrases like "relish your ride" and "must go hard" will serve as strong motivation to pedal faster, harder, stronger to the medal...or wherever the food is.
For a decade, Diane Kuan has been imparting her expertise on dumpling-making through her classes and cookbooks. She applies that same knowledge into a beautifully designed tote bag illustrating the incredible assortment of dumplings cherished across the globe. Any dumpling devotee will want to tote this bag around.
Nothing says home like the smell of freshly baked bread. By that logic, nothing says home like the comfort of big, cozy bread slippers.
You know those people who say, "Oh this old thing, I just threw it on!"? Well, you can be one of those people when you wear bedazzled charcuterie statement earrings. But in all seriousness, try it. The next time you’re hosting a dinner party, don a bathrobe plus these earrings and you’ll be the belle of the ball.
On the roster of places to get dressed up for, the farmers’ market ranks low. Nevertheless, something like a produce-laden hair claw keeps you looking poised and polished as you comb through a crate of apples and load up a tote full of big kale bunches. A farmers’ market shopping sesh has never been more stylish.
Everyone will be peanut butter and jealous with one look at your unbelievable sock game. That, and they’ll probably get hungry for a sandwich.
And for crave-able footwear, get your feet into sneakers stacked as sky-high as a real juicy smash burger. Sure, you can’t eat them, but what you can do is run a mile in them to the nearest burger joint.
Two options: you can count sheep or count the number of brunch foods on your PJs. Granted you might get pretty hungry but don’t worry, a full table of pancakes and avocado toast awaits you in the morning.
You haven’t gotten it yet, but in the likely event you receive a personal invitation to spend a day with Oprah in her bountiful garden, you must wear this necklace.
A tee featuring the iconic chocolate cake from Kiki’s Delivery Service is the ideal gift for Studio Ghibli fans obsessive over the brilliant animation woven with heartwarming plots, to the same extent they fixate on the illustrious depictions of food.
For Korean BBQ outings and karaoke nights, a Hawaiian shirt covered in little soju bottles is second to none.
You’re not picky about food so quit being so shy about it! Wear this t-shirt and live your bold, authentic life as an unfiltered eater of everything.
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