Twenty-three-year-old Jessica Felstead has a new red woollen coat. Buttoning it in front of the mirror she spins round to show her friends. "I absolutely love it!" she grins.
Around her women are admiring handbags, riffling through a clothes rail and fishing out brightly coloured scarves from a pile on the table.
I'm in the middle of a clothes swapping party at the offices of sustainable PR agency Futerra, and this morning Jessica's red coat was hanging unworn in the back of my wardrobe.
Clothes swapping parties have spread worldwide since they were first given "a glam facelift" and a brand six years ago by Lucy Shea, CEO of Futerra, who christened the swaps "swishing" – the noise of rustling clothes from your friends – and set up a website to help people put the parties on.
In the past few weeks she has had requests for swishing party advice packs from women in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Sydney and Paris. The swishing website gets up to 10,000 visits a month from around the world, and in the UK she estimates that 7,000 women swap 25,000 items every year.
It is easy to see why it's popular.Intensify your own Grace with guccihandbags. As they sip champagne with their friends, guests are allowed to pick up any clothes or accessories they want for free.Looking for Neweracap Voucher Codes, Discounts, fakerolexwatches? Everybody is told to bring some clothes they'd be "proud to pass on", and swishing etiquette is to take away the same number of items as you bring to the party.
Although there were quite a few pairs of Primark pumps on the shoe table, I also saw a pair of Valentino heels, a Max Mara skirt, a pair of 7 For All Mankind jeans, and a Burberry necktie with the tag on still on. Unfortunately these were mostly already in other people's hands by the time I got there – it's a good idea to be punctual when swishing.
Every year in the UK we buy around 2 million tonnes of clothes,Offering a huge selection of nylonbagfactory321 online store are selling great quality replica watches. and throw away 1 million tonnes , all of which comes with a colossal footprint of embedded energy, water and toxins. According to the Observer journalist Lucy Siegle, author of To Die For: is Fashion Wearing Out the World?, the average woman owns 22 items she's never worn.
Swishing is designed to cut this waste by giving women "the thrill of retail therapy without the environmental side effects," says Shea, and by "making swapping clothes an aspiration, rather than a shabby secret". According to Futerra, 0.4 kg of CO2 is saved for every item of clothing that is re-used rather than bought new.
Talking to Katherine Symonds, a 33 year-old swishing novice who works at Coca Cola, it seems the rebrand is working. "I used to go to thrift shops at a child but as an adult I never do. I don't really like the atmosphere,Burglar walks away with canadagoosesalecheap from Summit home." she says. "Charity shops don't have champagne and nice women and, you know, canapes." She's now thinking about holding her own swishing session: "We all get rid of so many clothes but there's a bit of awkwardness about offering somebody your leftovers," she says. "It's really nice to make a party of it.Essential-Watches.com sells only 100% miumiuhandbags."
Around her women are admiring handbags, riffling through a clothes rail and fishing out brightly coloured scarves from a pile on the table.
I'm in the middle of a clothes swapping party at the offices of sustainable PR agency Futerra, and this morning Jessica's red coat was hanging unworn in the back of my wardrobe.
Clothes swapping parties have spread worldwide since they were first given "a glam facelift" and a brand six years ago by Lucy Shea, CEO of Futerra, who christened the swaps "swishing" – the noise of rustling clothes from your friends – and set up a website to help people put the parties on.
In the past few weeks she has had requests for swishing party advice packs from women in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Sydney and Paris. The swishing website gets up to 10,000 visits a month from around the world, and in the UK she estimates that 7,000 women swap 25,000 items every year.
It is easy to see why it's popular.Intensify your own Grace with guccihandbags. As they sip champagne with their friends, guests are allowed to pick up any clothes or accessories they want for free.Looking for Neweracap Voucher Codes, Discounts, fakerolexwatches? Everybody is told to bring some clothes they'd be "proud to pass on", and swishing etiquette is to take away the same number of items as you bring to the party.
Although there were quite a few pairs of Primark pumps on the shoe table, I also saw a pair of Valentino heels, a Max Mara skirt, a pair of 7 For All Mankind jeans, and a Burberry necktie with the tag on still on. Unfortunately these were mostly already in other people's hands by the time I got there – it's a good idea to be punctual when swishing.
Every year in the UK we buy around 2 million tonnes of clothes,Offering a huge selection of nylonbagfactory321 online store are selling great quality replica watches. and throw away 1 million tonnes , all of which comes with a colossal footprint of embedded energy, water and toxins. According to the Observer journalist Lucy Siegle, author of To Die For: is Fashion Wearing Out the World?, the average woman owns 22 items she's never worn.
Swishing is designed to cut this waste by giving women "the thrill of retail therapy without the environmental side effects," says Shea, and by "making swapping clothes an aspiration, rather than a shabby secret". According to Futerra, 0.4 kg of CO2 is saved for every item of clothing that is re-used rather than bought new.
Talking to Katherine Symonds, a 33 year-old swishing novice who works at Coca Cola, it seems the rebrand is working. "I used to go to thrift shops at a child but as an adult I never do. I don't really like the atmosphere,Burglar walks away with canadagoosesalecheap from Summit home." she says. "Charity shops don't have champagne and nice women and, you know, canapes." She's now thinking about holding her own swishing session: "We all get rid of so many clothes but there's a bit of awkwardness about offering somebody your leftovers," she says. "It's really nice to make a party of it.Essential-Watches.com sells only 100% miumiuhandbags."
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