June 3rd, 2006 9:00-3:00
Location: The Orchard School, East Alstead, NH
Cost for full day, lunch, & LOTS of newly created clothes
$35 + 2 BAGS OF OLD CLOTHES

Limited Space, please register 835-6783
No sewing ability required
A portion of proceeds go to scholarships for summer camp

Its a fashion spree of a different color:
creative & ecological!TRANSFORM unwanted old clothes into artsy or practical clothes just for you!

Full day SWAP-O-RAMA-RAMA spree includes:
Demonstration, Instruction & Exhibit
by custom clothier & designer Alice B. Fogel
(Grand prize winner in Re-Fashion Design Contest)
on how to cut up, collage & reconstruct
sweaters, skirts, T-shirts, jeans & other things;
Mix, Match, Slice, Pin & Put it all together;
Re-Fashion Show & Inspirational To-Do Lists

AND New clothes for you to take home!

Repurposing a wide array of already-existing items for new use is a national ecological wave which includes the Swap-o-rama-rama events at which participants with no sewing experience can learn more about how to re-fit, re-imagine and re-fashion old clothes at little or no cost. According to Wendy Tremaine, its creator, a recent Swapo-rama-rama in Brooklyn, NY repurposed tons of clothing by cutting, re-sewing, collaging, embellishing, printing and otherwise renewing formerly unwanted clothes, on the spot.

Alice B. Fogel of Acworth, NH took FIRST PRIZE for Evening Wear in the Re-Imagine Style RE-Fashion Context held on Earth Day in Ithaca, NY. She also took BEST IN SHOW GRAND PRIZE for her cotton wedding gown made entirely of recycled fabrics, including 21 tailored mens shirts. The dress incorporates all the shirts button plackets and shirt-tail hems in its petal-like tiers, with a multi-tucked tuxedo shirtŐs front panels as the back opening. Fogel also won several honorable mentions in categories of Accessories (for a scarf made of sewing scraps), Teen (for skirts made of recycled T-shirts) and Career/Chic (for a cardigan made of collaged parts of three sweaters and a strip of an unwanted skirt).

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