SWAP not SHOP

This blog post is about the SWAP not SHOP event , which was happening outside the MSC in celebrating MSC's Birthday.This event is about bringing different people down to swop their clothings with someone else. This way, they are able to clear clothes that they dont wear anymore/cant fit into or clothes that they feel unsuitable for them. So assuming person A brought down 3 pieces of clothing, she will then be able to swop for ANY 3 pieces of clothing that she likes ,and she only have to pay $1 for each piece ! Also, every lady that participart were given a Free Majorlica Majorca workshop voucher, $10 Chapter 2 voucher and CLEO magazines.

  The whole event lasted for a week , from 19 Nov to 23 Nov, and attracted about 400 people down.


We started the event by first collecting clothes from participants for the first two days.This is to ensure that we would have enough variety of clothes to start a swop.There would be staffs at the booth to check on the quality of the clothes, making sure that the clothes is in good conditions and also making sure that it is still fashionable(so that someone else would want to have it). If the clothes did not managed to pass the check,e.g. it has a small tear at the side of the clothes, or the colour of the clothing started to fade, the staff would then ask the participants if they would still like to have the clothes back, or would they want to donate it to the Salvation Army. If the clothes that they rbought down passed the quality check by staffs, they will be issued a coupon by FASHFIX, stating the amount of clothes they brought down.People who brought 5 or more than 5 pieces of clothing would get a free CLEO(Nov Issue) magazine, which also includes a $10 voucher. By the end of the two days, we actually managed to collect 5 boxes of clothes for swopping, and a 1 box of clothes for donation!

After having two days of clothes collection,
we finally started the swopping event at 10am on the third day(Wednesday)!!
We hung the clothes up bit by bit on the rags( we had 5 rags in total) and allowed the participants to enter our 'shop' to pick out the clothes they are interested in. Since our clothes are being hung nicely on the rags , and the location that we're happen to look just like a outlet itself, it really helped to bring the shopping mood out ! But of cause, this event is much better as every piece that they exchange for cost only a dollar each !
Onces our 'shop' officially open, it attracted many other fashion addicts down,other than the paritcipants. Being able to only window shop and not get anything from the 'shop' does motivate many people to start digging clothes out from their wardrobe to bring down and exchange.
Day 3 was really a busy day and our newly shop attracted much more passerbys who are extremly eager to entre and shop. Onces those passerby get to know about our event, they all went home and start digging for clothes to bring them down for our event !

The swop continues on from the third day till the fifth day(wednesday to friday) , and while the swopping gets going, the amount of peple who brought down their clothes increased too!

On the forth day(thursday), we had a really steady participant who brought down 51 pieces of clothing all by herself ! We do have many other who brought down up to 30+ clothings themself.
They even thank FASHFIX for this event as some of the participants needed to clear their wardrobe, and didnt want to just throw them away. they even managed to get new clothes from this at a dollar each !

On the Last day of our event,the fifth day(Friday), the swop event goes on like normal, every participants managed to get their clothings!
We had a surprise for the public that day, and it is to actually open the shop for public for 3 hours !
This means that anyone can come in and get any piece of clothing at $2 each ! Many passerbys were so happy with this surprise that some of them even scream and hop around. Many of the participants feedback that they really like this event and hope that it will happen again soon.

Eventually, as the 3 hour ends, we had about 7 boxes of clothings left !
And they will all be donated to the Salvation Army !


We would like to thank everybody that made this event a success, and most importantly, we would like to thank Vivien, the founder of Fashfix. Without her, non of this would happen !

And to those who missed our event, Not to worry !You can go on to FASHFIX.SG to always get updates if there is any event going on. Also, the web can also allow you to  SWAP,SHOP and SELL online !