If this is your style guide, this is your swap meet.
Oh no — you’re invited to another clothing swap. Sounds like a good idea, but who’s gonna be there? Buncha tiny bitches whose size 2 shirts are never going to fit you? You can go and hope people bring great accessories or — drumroll please — you could check out the Curvy Girl Fashion Swap on Tuesday at 6:30 at Night of the Cookers bistro in Ft. Greene, hosted by Sweet Roll Entertainment. The specialized meet comes with a fee ($16), plus you need to bring five gently used items of clothing.But you get unlimited swapping, gift bags, food and raffle prizes like an at-home facial and vintage jewelry set. There are also prizes for the best-dressed. Cool! Sweet Roll Entertainment is fashion and lifestyle event production company that caters to women sizes 10+. Tickets are available in advance online.
If you’re like us, spring cleaning basically entails just throwing all the clothes that you’ve outgrown (physically or mentally, vertically or horizontally) into a giant shopping bag and placing it in your closet until you move. Or get sick of looking at it, whichever comes first. Good news: our pals at
Krrb are having a
Community Swap Meet and Yard Sale on Sunday, from 12-3 at pretty little
Mission Dolores Bar in Park Slope, which also happens to be one of our beloved
Beer Book bars. It’s free to buy or sell, but they ask that you
RSVP to sign up. Who knows? Maybe you’ll swap spring cleanings with others and get a whole new wardrobe. They’ll donate the unswapped stuff, so no schlepping back to your place! Oh, and don’t worry, Hangover Harry, there’ll be drink specials and tacos just for you.
The Brooklyn Free Store, via NYT
Maybe it’s the refreshing fall air or the persistent blech economic news, but folks in Brooklyn are acting mighty generous to each other this weekend with all these free shwag events. That’s especially true in Bed-Stuy, where two celebrations of freeness are planned Saturday: the grand opening of the Brooklyn Free Store, Bed-Stuy’s capitalism-shunning free-for-all; and the Swap + Meet, a “clothing swap social” at the Macon Branch of the library. Hey, looks like it’s finally time to take that trip to The Stuy you’ve been thinking about! Read the rest of this entry »
Last weekend, in every way. Photo by dennisandluba
Barely a week after its jam-packed season-opening weekend—replete with dance party, food-truck fest and pop-up swap—BKLYN Yard, the hipster hotspot on the Gowanus Riviera, is closed. According to a subscriber email blast from the good folks at MeanRed Productions, which runs the grassy space in Carroll Gardens, the group was handed its walking papers on Tuesday when their landlord renegged on their existing lease. In the note, MeanRed promised to keep fighting the good fight, reassuring its yardie fans that it will work to relocate and reschedule its summer programming. We sure hope so. Here’s the full email from MeanRed: Read the rest of this entry »
This is not the author. Photo by Jenene Chesbrough.
I’d heard clothing swaps are a great way to upgrade a wardrobe for free. Some people, women usually, love them—like Clothing Swap and Meet founder Nichelle Stephens, who says such events bring out her “Sagittarian hunter-like leanings as well as appeal to her sense of vanity and thrift.” I wanted to believe Nichelle’s claim that they are also fun, but feared that such feel-good events only existed in Jennifer Garner movies. After all, this is New York: there are ugly sweaters, raw emotions, and bedbugs.
So my friends and I got together and hosted one ourselves. The Great Swap included a potluck dinner and wine; these were the highlights. Unfortunately, the swapping part didn’t flow as freely as the wine. Read the rest of this entry »
Coop photo via Flickr user okk9355
There’s another clothing swap in Brooklyn this weekend, and you know the drill: Bring out your dead … outfits and swap them for new duds. But this time there’s a bonus twist, especially if you have more clothes than money for food right now: You can turn your old duds into delicious summer BBQ this Sunday at the Bushwick Food Coop Clothing Swap BBQ and fundraiser. One bag of clothes gets you free local, organic food at the BBQ, plus entry to the swap, which also includes music, dancing and cooking demonstrations. Even if you don’t have clothes to swap, you can get in for a $5 donation, which benefits the coop. Read the rest of this entry »
If this is your style guide, this is your swap meet.
Oh no — you’re invited to another clothing swap. Sounds like a good idea, but who’s gonna be there? Buncha tiny bitches whose size 2 shirts are never going to fit you? You can go and hope people bring great accessories or — drumroll please — you could check out the Curvy Girl Fashion Swap on Tuesday at 6:30 at Night of the Cookers bistro in Ft. Greene, hosted by Sweet Roll Entertainment. The specialized meet comes with a fee ($16), plus you need to bring five gently used items of clothing.But you get unlimited swapping, gift bags, food and raffle prizes like an at-home facial and vintage jewelry set. There are also prizes for the best-dressed. Cool! Sweet Roll Entertainment is fashion and lifestyle event production company that caters to women sizes 10+. Tickets are available in advance online.
If you’re like us, spring cleaning basically entails just throwing all the clothes that you’ve outgrown (physically or mentally, vertically or horizontally) into a giant shopping bag and placing it in your closet until you move. Or get sick of looking at it, whichever comes first. Good news: our pals at
Krrb are having a
Community Swap Meet and Yard Sale on Sunday, from 12-3 at pretty little
Mission Dolores Bar in Park Slope, which also happens to be one of our beloved
Beer Book bars. It’s free to buy or sell, but they ask that you
RSVP to sign up. Who knows? Maybe you’ll swap spring cleanings with others and get a whole new wardrobe. They’ll donate the unswapped stuff, so no schlepping back to your place! Oh, and don’t worry, Hangover Harry, there’ll be drink specials and tacos just for you.
The Brooklyn Free Store, via NYT
Maybe it’s the refreshing fall air or the persistent blech economic news, but folks in Brooklyn are acting mighty generous to each other this weekend with all these free shwag events. That’s especially true in Bed-Stuy, where two celebrations of freeness are planned Saturday: the grand opening of the Brooklyn Free Store, Bed-Stuy’s capitalism-shunning free-for-all; and the Swap + Meet, a “clothing swap social” at the Macon Branch of the library. Hey, looks like it’s finally time to take that trip to The Stuy you’ve been thinking about! Read the rest of this entry »
Last weekend, in every way. Photo by dennisandluba
Barely a week after its jam-packed season-opening weekend—replete with dance party, food-truck fest and pop-up swap—BKLYN Yard, the hipster hotspot on the Gowanus Riviera, is closed. According to a subscriber email blast from the good folks at MeanRed Productions, which runs the grassy space in Carroll Gardens, the group was handed its walking papers on Tuesday when their landlord renegged on their existing lease. In the note, MeanRed promised to keep fighting the good fight, reassuring its yardie fans that it will work to relocate and reschedule its summer programming. We sure hope so. Here’s the full email from MeanRed: Read the rest of this entry »
This is not the author. Photo by Jenene Chesbrough.
I’d heard clothing swaps are a great way to upgrade a wardrobe for free. Some people, women usually, love them—like Clothing Swap and Meet founder Nichelle Stephens, who says such events bring out her “Sagittarian hunter-like leanings as well as appeal to her sense of vanity and thrift.” I wanted to believe Nichelle’s claim that they are also fun, but feared that such feel-good events only existed in Jennifer Garner movies. After all, this is New York: there are ugly sweaters, raw emotions, and bedbugs.
So my friends and I got together and hosted one ourselves. The Great Swap included a potluck dinner and wine; these were the highlights. Unfortunately, the swapping part didn’t flow as freely as the wine. Read the rest of this entry »
