Come Swishing With Us In Stratford-Upon-Avon!

After the success of the last party back in September, Lauren hopes to make the clothes swap parties a regular event at the bar. The concept is very simple, you bring with you any old ladies clothes, bags, shoes or jewellery items to swap and are allocated six items to pick from individually colour coded rails. If like me, you don’t have anything to swap and would just like to purchase a couple of items, then you can pay the entrance prime of £7.50 and get to take away the same six items. For an extra £1 you can purchase a raffle ticket and be in with a chance to win some great brand new prizes, this time including a bespoke designer tote bag, miniature bottle of pink champagne, make up set, cookery book and other goodies.

The event started at 1pm with the girls setting up rails and dressing the glass booth tables with accessories, cake stands filled with pink cupcakes and pink glasses with sweets in them, all very cute and girly. While the bar (and the glasses) filled up, ladies perused the rails. Once the bar was busy the ladies were given an hour slot for viewing and trying on, then when the items were selected, they were allocated to the customers, with time for the prize raffle draw.

There’s plenty to sift through even if you’re not lucky enough to find anything in your size or style, it’s a brilliant way of promoting sustainable fashion through recycling. I didn’t stay for the whole party, but I did manage to bag myself a lovely bracelet for a £1!!

I wish Lauren all the best with her venture and I look forward to the new year’s clothes swap party, which will hopefully be full of post Christmas leftovers. For more info visit: www.backtothefuschia.org