CBS 13 Sacramento

In tough economic times, more and more women are trading clothes instead of buying ones.  Women turned out in droves at the latest Clothing Swap in Roseville.  Andrea Menniti reports on the timely and popular 'Fashion Stimulus Clothing Swap'.

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by Mengly Taing - Fall 2007

Clothing Swaps are good for your wallet and the environment

"People are making choices, they're living green, and they want to leave a smaller footprint," says Suzanne Agasi, who has hosted more than 120 clothing swaps over the last several years, working with different collaborators and causes.

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The typical woman uses 20 percent of her clothes 80 percent of the time, according to Suzanne Agasi, a clothing swapper who advocates giving up some of the stuff we rarely, if ever, wear at public and private meet-ups. Agasi lives in San Francisco and is such a seasoned swapper that she has an entire website devoted to the idea. She's even trademarked the term "clothing swap" which seems appropriate since Agasi has run about 170 swaps in the last 14 years. The first 12 of those years "everyone thought I was nuts," she said. But with the economy disintegrating and "green" becoming the new black, swaps have gone mainstream.

The Boston Globe

Sharing and trading clothes is a great way to avoid losing your shirt.

Suzanne Agasi, a clothing swap organizer in San Francisco, has hosted 175 swaps and has a website devoted to her events. According to Agasi, the typical woman uses 20 percent of her clothes 80 percent of the time. The reason?  Sometimes it's just hard to let go.

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Splendora
March 13, 2009

There are also fun public swaps like Clothing Swap if you want greater variety.

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