one of my goals for this year is to cut out high street fashion and to instead soley buy clothing direct from makers or second-hand. thanks to twitter, a small group of some friends came up with charity shop challenge yesterday, where people are encouraged to find new clothing in charity shops & post about their finds at the end of the month. fancy taking part?
guidelines:
1. your outfit must comprise of a key-garment from a charity shop plus any other pieces/accessories etc to make up an 'ensemble'
2. annotate your outfit. include a description of the garments/where you bought or found each piece/price of charity find
3. upload your image onto your blog by the last friday of each month
4. on the last friday of the month tell everyone about it & tweet with the hashtag #charityshopchallenge
5. extra credit for those who customise their charity shop find
the image above is a few things put together in spirit of the challenge: the dress (as well as being my first purchase for myself of 2011!) was found in a charity shop in liverpool on monday, the belt is a charity shop find from a couple of years ago & the cardigan is from ebay. hooray for second-hand!
update! charity shop challenge can now be found on flickr - so if you don't have a twitter account, no worries.
12 comments:
That sounds like a great idea! I had such an amazing charity shop haul last week, I bought six things for around £16, haha!
Hooray for second hand, indeed! Absolutely love what I can see of that outfit. It looks so bright!
Sounds like fun :D I'm trying to cut down on how much I shop on the high-street to shop in second hand/independent sellers too.
I wish I had twitter ;__; I may join just to participate.
excellent! this has been a goal of mine for years. so much fun- and you end up with much more unique clothing than everyone else. can't wait to see what you find!
I don't have Twitter, but if I did I'd participate.
Coincidently, I did just post a picture to my blog last night which features a shirt that I got from a second hand shop.
glad to hear you guys like rummaging around for second-hand treats too. :)
jennifer & cheryl: there's now a flickr group, if you guys are on there? http://www.flickr.com/groups/charityshopchallenge/
Lovely idea! I look forward to posting my finds by the end of the month!
That's sounds nice, a good idea and I love the Cardigans!!!
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what an amazing idea. i'm inspired! thank you!
j.
I thrift. Yesterday I found a red Ann Taylor spring cardigan and a brand new A.N.A. sweater from JC Penney.
great work there! amazing and with such a 'jenuine' thought! liked it a lot.
This is so cool! I would participate if I would buy in charity shops, I think I might give it try , first I need to see if there are nice findings though, have you find nice clothing?
Thanks for sharing !
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