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Boston and Beyond: A Day of Bargain Shopping for Fatshionistas!
Love a good deal? Want to freshen up your wardrobe on the cheap? Like the thrill of digging through the racks at Goodwill but hate not finding anything in your size? Did you miss out on the shopping dream that was Re/Dress?
You are going to LOVE The Big Thrifty!
The Big Thrifty is a one-day bargain-hunting fat clothing event happening 12pm-6pm Saturday, May 5th in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, just three blocks from the Red Line T station.
Pay $5 at the door and head toward fat thrifting fun! There will be tables and racks and bins of clothing sizes XL and up sorted by size. Items will be priced cheaply and easily (example: all tops, $3ea.). There'll be a curtained-off area and mirrors for trying on clothes.
And there'll be a Re/Dress Pop-Up Shop with teggings and modern and vintage clothing, size 14+! We are very excited to be welcoming Deb and her Re/Dress awesomeness as part of this event!
How can you help? First, help spread the word! Tell all your fine fat friends about the event, share the Facebook love, post on your Twitters and your Tumblrs, shout it from your rooftops! Second, donate clothing! (Details below!) And then, volunteer! We'll need volunteers to help us collect clothing, do advance sorting, set up and sort the night before the event, and help the day of the event. Volunteers will get free entry into the event, too!
What kind of clothes will be there? Seriously, many of us have clothes in our dressers and closets and attics that we just don't wear. Maybe they are too big or too small, too bright or too dark, too serious or too silly for how we are dressing right now. The thing is, those clothes could be having awesome lives on someone else instead of gathering dust in the back of your closet! And by sending those unwanted clothes off to new homes, you'll be making room for new stuff that fits who you are right now! We already have bags of incredible donated clothes ranging from XL (14/16) to 5XL (30/32), all in good condition and ready to find new homes with fatshionistas who will love them. There's already clothing from the following stores/sites: Old Navy, Holy Clothing, Lane Bryant, Avenue, Land's End, Torrid, Eddie Bauer, Fashion Overdose, and more!
How can you donate? Bag up your clean, in-good-condition XL+ clothing in clean trash bags. If you are local-ish to Somerville, MA and can drop off your clothes, contact us and we'll give you an address. We are offering some pick-ups for bigger donations of clothes in the Arlington/Boston/Cambridge/Somerville-area. The more donations we have in advance, the more organized we'll be at the event! Email us at thebigthrifty@gmail.com to arrange a drop-off or pick-up! And, yes, we'll be accepting some clothing donations the day of the event itself.
Who will this benefit? Besides all the shoppers reaping the rewards of fashion scores at thrift-tacular prices, NOLOSE is one of our fattabulous charities.
Want to donate clothing? Email us at thebigthrifty@gmail.com.
Want to volunteer? Email us at thebigthrifty@gmail.com.
Have questions? Email us at thebigthrifty@gmail.com.
Did you write the event into your calendar yet? :)
And so I'm just not going on and on and OMG ONNNNNN about The Big Thrifty, I present a few OOTDs!
The colors of this combo make me just. so. happy. The cardigan was a great score from the last Fat Girl Flea in NYC and the dress came from a discount store.
I'm rather in love with this Target cardigan. Online, it was ho-hum-okay-I-guess. In the store, it was oooh-pretty-ooh-soft! I've worn it once a week since I bought it, despite my happy wealth of cardis. And the Igigi dress beneath cost me $10 at a Fat Girl Flea!
Finally, my most recent interpretation of a super heroine. :) The bold blue with the red had me smiling all day. And the outfit gave me an opportunity to wear my newest favorite pair of Zenni Optical glasses. While my old prescription still works for me, my new prescription has progressive lenses and that meant shopping for new frames. I didn't love the limited progressive frame choices on Zenni, but I did the best I could and when these arrived, I hit them with some glue and rhinestones and presto! SPARKLY LOVE.
You are going to LOVE The Big Thrifty!
The Big Thrifty is a one-day bargain-hunting fat clothing event happening 12pm-6pm Saturday, May 5th in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, just three blocks from the Red Line T station.
Pay $5 at the door and head toward fat thrifting fun! There will be tables and racks and bins of clothing sizes XL and up sorted by size. Items will be priced cheaply and easily (example: all tops, $3ea.). There'll be a curtained-off area and mirrors for trying on clothes.
And there'll be a Re/Dress Pop-Up Shop with teggings and modern and vintage clothing, size 14+! We are very excited to be welcoming Deb and her Re/Dress awesomeness as part of this event!
How can you help? First, help spread the word! Tell all your fine fat friends about the event, share the Facebook love, post on your Twitters and your Tumblrs, shout it from your rooftops! Second, donate clothing! (Details below!) And then, volunteer! We'll need volunteers to help us collect clothing, do advance sorting, set up and sort the night before the event, and help the day of the event. Volunteers will get free entry into the event, too!
What kind of clothes will be there? Seriously, many of us have clothes in our dressers and closets and attics that we just don't wear. Maybe they are too big or too small, too bright or too dark, too serious or too silly for how we are dressing right now. The thing is, those clothes could be having awesome lives on someone else instead of gathering dust in the back of your closet! And by sending those unwanted clothes off to new homes, you'll be making room for new stuff that fits who you are right now! We already have bags of incredible donated clothes ranging from XL (14/16) to 5XL (30/32), all in good condition and ready to find new homes with fatshionistas who will love them. There's already clothing from the following stores/sites: Old Navy, Holy Clothing, Lane Bryant, Avenue, Land's End, Torrid, Eddie Bauer, Fashion Overdose, and more!
How can you donate? Bag up your clean, in-good-condition XL+ clothing in clean trash bags. If you are local-ish to Somerville, MA and can drop off your clothes, contact us and we'll give you an address. We are offering some pick-ups for bigger donations of clothes in the Arlington/Boston/Cambridge/Somerville-area. The more donations we have in advance, the more organized we'll be at the event! Email us at thebigthrifty@gmail.com to arrange a drop-off or pick-up! And, yes, we'll be accepting some clothing donations the day of the event itself.
Who will this benefit? Besides all the shoppers reaping the rewards of fashion scores at thrift-tacular prices, NOLOSE is one of our fattabulous charities.
Want to donate clothing? Email us at thebigthrifty@gmail.com.
Want to volunteer? Email us at thebigthrifty@gmail.com.
Have questions? Email us at thebigthrifty@gmail.com.
Did you write the event into your calendar yet? :)
And so I'm just not going on and on and OMG ONNNNNN about The Big Thrifty, I present a few OOTDs!
The colors of this combo make me just. so. happy. The cardigan was a great score from the last Fat Girl Flea in NYC and the dress came from a discount store.
I'm rather in love with this Target cardigan. Online, it was ho-hum-okay-I-guess. In the store, it was oooh-pretty-ooh-soft! I've worn it once a week since I bought it, despite my happy wealth of cardis. And the Igigi dress beneath cost me $10 at a Fat Girl Flea!
Finally, my most recent interpretation of a super heroine. :) The bold blue with the red had me smiling all day. And the outfit gave me an opportunity to wear my newest favorite pair of Zenni Optical glasses. While my old prescription still works for me, my new prescription has progressive lenses and that meant shopping for new frames. I didn't love the limited progressive frame choices on Zenni, but I did the best I could and when these arrived, I hit them with some glue and rhinestones and presto! SPARKLY LOVE.