Rethreads swap
Oxfam Australia and CarriageWorks present
Exchange for Change:
Rethreads: mass free clothing swap
Rethreads is for the style & sustainability savvy. Here, clothing is your currency – bring up to 20 of your best cast-offs, and exchange them for new pieces to reinvigorate your wardrobe. There is no entry fee, so anyone can participate! There are guidelines for what you should and really shouldn’t bring, so make sure you check the CarriageWorks website for info prior to rocking up.
Workshops and interactive spaces
While at Rethreads, you’ll have the opportunity to meet representatives from Oxfam Australia’s labour rights unit and other organisations fighting for fair fashion. There’ll also be DIY Re-mixed Fashion workshops run by The Social Studio, where you can re-vamp your old clothes or a new find from the swap. You can also add your bit to Oxfam’s interactive petition, The Guilt Quilt, to let industry know you want them to lift their game.
DATE Saturday 31 July
TIME Swap opens at 12pm, and closes at 6pm.
EARLYBIRD Check your clothes in the week before for Earlybird entry at 11am.
VENUE The foyer of CarriageWorks
ATTEND It’s free! Just turn up!
Click here for all the info on how the swap will work, what to bring , and what NOT to bring.
Click here for info on how to get to the venue, CarriageWorks.
The environmental benefits of exchange events
•Recycling takes items you have finished with and puts them back into circulation.
•By passing your clothes, accessories or equipment on to others, you are diverting materials from landfill thus conserving resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
•Reusing a product, rather than buying a new one, reduces the demands for water, energy and raw materials. This reduces the impact on the environment.
•Swapping 1 suitcase (20kg) of clothes saves enough energy to run a TV non-stop for 1.7 years.
•Swapping clothing diverts these organic materials from landfill. In landfill they produce methane, a greenhouse gas with the global warming capacity 20 times stronger than CO2.
Statistics courtesy of Planet Ark.
If you require any futher information, feel free to email exchangeforchange@oxfam.org.au with your questions.
OK, so for those of you wondering when the pre-event drop-off times are, they are: Monday 26 July – Thurs 29 July, between 12.30 – 1.30pm. And also Friday 30 July between 9am – 5pm. If you drop your clothes of before the event, you’ll get a special wrist band that allows you to swap 45mins before doors open on the Saturday. More info about the swap is here: http://bit.ly/bh5M1r
I was also wondering when the early-bird clothes drop-offs are?
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Hello just wanted to say this is a great event.. and I’m starting my own sweatshop free, organic streetwear label called gravity plays favourites.. just wondering if you have any events in which you can sell clothes.. thankyou