Want new threads but can’t afford them in these strait­ened times? Got some old clothes that you want to see go to a good home? Wor­ried about the envi­ron­men­tal obscen­i­ty of our throw-away fash­ion cul­ture? Then The Big Shwop is for you.

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The con­cept of “swish­ing”, clothes-swap­ping par­ties for eco-con­scious fash­ion­istas, has been around for a while. Our love­ly love­ly love­ly friends at Pret­ty Pret­ty Pret­ty also had a “dud-swap” for cos­met­ic prod­ucts at their big par­ty. But The Big Shwop takes it to a more pub­lic lev­el, with their first Shwop hap­pen­ing at the South­ern Cross on Sat­ur­day August the 2nd. For more details on how it works, see their web site.