NO NEED FOR MONEY, JUST SWAP

Clothes swapping is the new shopping trend. It began with home-based fashion swap parties, but now swap-shops are starting to open everywhere.

The goal is to keep up with fashion without going bankrupt.

Forget about those old second-hand shops; swap-shops are starting to open in Italy too, following up (5 years later) on the success of New York and London.

It all began as a clothing swap party where people invited a group of friends to their home; now real swap shops are starting to open everywhere. It is also known as glamour swapping for the quality of clothes and locations.

The shops are real swapping ateliers.

The clothes are of excellent quality and seldomly worn (they are sterilized, ironed and well presented).

If it hadn’t been for swap-shops, these refined and precious clothes wouldn’t be affordable for most of us.

Each item of clothing is assigned a score (usually from 1 to 5) and you can take an item with the same value, that is, for nothing, and as for the shop, you only have to pay from €10 to 20€ for the swap.

Victoria Beckham started the trend by swapping clothes with her best friends: Eva Longoria, Katie Holmes, Emma Bunton, Gwyneth Paltrow.