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Every year 300,000 tons of clothing goes to landfill in the UK.
Re-Skill. Re-Use. Re-Fashion will change how you see your clothes forever.
Sew Fabulous have put together an amazing FREE event celebrating all things to do with Fashion Textiles and Sustainability. Learn how to mend your clothes, upcycle items in to a new outfit, buy vintage clothes and fabric from Gladrags, get involved in a clothes swap or crafting fabric scraps into a wearable accessory and talk to key players in textile recycling in our city 'Soex'. Also present will be - Super Looper baby equipment hire, Harriets's Press eco laundry, Smarter Uniforms, The Good Stitch and of course Gladrags Community Costume Hire will be there. Come down and say hello!
Vintage Sales, Recycling & Costume Re-homing
Gladrags started its sales venture in November 2018 in order to make space in our store and raise funds for our community work. We have grown this into a fully-fledged Ebay shop running alongside other real-life sale events. Our ethos of sustainability and re-cycling tailors nicely into passing on good quality second-hand clothing to give them another lease of life with a new owner. Completing the circle, we also offer un-sellable items to local schools and community groups with our 'Costume Re-homing' scheme.
December 2020
Thank you to all who came to our Christmas Market, we raised an amazing £2000! A fantastic Christmas present towards our charitable work that will greatly help us to be ready to support communities when we can open fully again. It was a pleasure to welcome local craft-makers to join us selling their wares, a first for a Gladrags sale event.
Vintage Sales 2019
Our POP-UP VINTAGE Sales
brought many a retro bargain to the
North Laines, Christmas fairs and the
Sussex University market
25th Birthday Vintage Sale, May 2019
What a success! You picked up some of our best retro clothing, jewellery and fabric at bargain prices, and with 100% of proceeds coming to Gladrags, we raised an amazing £1200!
We committed most of this to funding our Storybox and dress-up play sessions with Chomp Moulsecoomb, a free holiday lunch club for families struggling to feed everyone at home out of term time. Thank you for being a part of that.
Sequin heaven
Timeless shirts
Dizzy 90s
Trusted Tweed
Vintage Sale November 2018
Thanks to all who came, sought and bought fabrics and clothes, gving them a new life in your homes! We raised an amazing £830, and have already started putting that to good use, both at Gladrags and in our reminiscence project.