{"id":1872,"date":"2010-04-11T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2010-04-11T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:25:28","slug":"in-a-time-of-recession-feminist-fashionistas-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2010\/04\/11\/in-a-time-of-recession-feminist-fashionistas-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"In a time of Recession, Feminist Fashionistas Unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a break from somber topics of health and medicine, I wanted to share a fun experience &#8212; I participated in my first &#8220;Clothing Exchange&#8221; party last month, hosted by\u00c2\u00a0the fabulous women of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exurbmagazine.com\/\">Exurb Magazine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_MvhbEDOXz00\/S8I6Bm6E29I\/AAAAAAAAC3M\/JIKtJLwXw0w\/clothes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a chance to make new friends, catch up with old ones, clean out my closet, update my wardrobe, and help less fortunate women.\u00c2\u00a0The hosts provided\u00c2\u00a0drinks and appetizers, all of us\u00c2\u00a0brought\u00c2\u00a0clean, &#8216;gently-used&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0clothing, and we\u00c2\u00a0got to know each other while we picked through the offerings. At the end, our hosts took all that was left over (and there was a lot!) to a local women&#8217;s shelter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always fashionable to reduce, reuse, recycle&#8230;and reinforce other women&#8217;s acts of courage!<\/p>\n<p>[Those interested in hosting may want to check out these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_2171834_host-childrens-clothing-exchange.html\">guidelines<\/a> for a children&#8217;s clothing exchange and modify as you wish.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a break from somber topics of health and medicine, I wanted to share a fun experience &#8212; I participated in my first &#8220;Clothing Exchange&#8221; party last month, hosted by\u00c2\u00a0the fabulous women of Exurb Magazine. It was a chance to make new friends, catch up with old ones, clean out my closet, update my wardrobe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[216,2492,21328,2109,814],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beauty","tag-clothing","tag-events","tag-fashion","tag-recession"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}