Clothings Swaps
Last Saturday I got to host my own clothing swap for the first time. I’ve been going to friend’s swaps for years, but never had enough space to host my own, but courtesy of exciting big(ish) new house, there was space! So how does a clothing swap work? You set up a time, and invite tons of people. It works best if you can invite people from a variety of different social groups, so that you get a lot of cross pollination of clothes and styles, and don’t end up trading the same stuff constantly. I invited my sewing friends, my vintage friends, my Theresa & Chiara friends (yes, you ladies get your own group!), and my swing dancing friends. Everybody goes through their closet and fishes out the things they never wear, don’t fit, or don’t love, and then shows up on the day with bags of clothes and fabric and shoes. If you are lucky they also, to use the classic Kiwi phrase, “bring a plate” (of food, of course). As hostess, I …