Swapping clothes
Yesterday afternoon I went to a clothes swap with some girls from my church, and some of their friends. I am taking the credit for passing on the idea, because I have been to one before, and when one girl was saying she really needed to clean out her wardrobe, I mentioned it, and an idea was born. But she takes all the credit for organising a rather gala afternoon tea over the event.
It was out of control! I was amazed! It was almost wicked how many clothes there were. But I have learnt that they are clothes people in this world – those people who turned up with plastic crates (yes, plural) of items. If we had a book swap, I might be the crate-bringing person, because I am a book person, though I do find it hard to get rid of them, but I am not clothes person.
I had a clothing purge not so long ago and took stuff to Vinnies, so I went along with a measly four things, and I wasn’t going to gather up more STUFF, so for a while I was quite restrained, and all I had collected was one jumper (which happened to be David Lawrence). Then I saw a blue pashmina, and thought, 'why not'. Then after a little rest in the “no clothes room” where the afternoon tea was, I came upon a black Portmans dress, which I thought would be the wrong size, but it worked. Then one girl tried to sell me on a Barometer shirt dress that was hers, so I gave that a go, thought ‘oh yeah’ and added it to the pile. Then we did this thing where you could “spruik” something to someone else, so I got a Sass and Bide t-shirt with coloured sequins all over it (one girl said “speaking the truth in love, I don’t think that’s you Ali”, but I took it anyway). Then I gathered a random grey suit jacket, then near the end a Witchery skirt surfaced that I thought would do. Seriously. I have quite a stash. And I wasn’t even being grabby and greedy. You should see the garbage bags of things left over! We all have a vast abundance of clothes.
This is a good way to get together and have some fun and liven up your wardrobe.