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Swap! Not Shop! Biannual Oakland Clothing Exchange plus $1 Drinks

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Homeygrown’s Biannual Clothing Exchange SWAP! NOT SHOP! is this Saturday the 19th at Soundwave Studios in Oakland.  Their loftier goal: to 'œcounteract the disposable nature of consumerism by providing the time and place for shopping renegades to recycle clothes and other reusable items.'  Their lower goal: get you boozed up on $1 drinks.

I’ve only ever been to private clothing swaps. These involve my very pretty and stylish friends all stripping down to their skivvies and trying on each others’ unwanted duds.  I don’t know how it works, but if this public clothing swap is anything like the semi-naked ones I’ve been to, I would suggest you go.  If you stay to the bitter end, it looks like at the end of the night they put on a 'œFugly Fashion Show' with all the leftover crap.

Homeygrown puts these clothing swaps on biannually.  An interesting note: no one really knows whether that means twice a year or every other year.  The reason for this is that if you look up the prefix 'œbi' in the dictionary (as in biweekly, bimonthly, or biannually), it will give you two definitions: one meaning twice and one meaning every other.  WTF, Webster?  How, then, does this rule apply to the word 'œbisexual?'  Does that mean you switch it up every other week, or you’re down for either twice a week?  Ahh, adventures in etymology.

Back to the swap: bring a bag of swappable items, $5 admission with your bag of crap, all ages, but $1 drinks for 21+ with ID, $1 silkscreening to customize your finds.

Swap! Not Shop! Clothing Exchange
Saturday, September 19th, 3-9pm
Soundwave Studios
2200 Wood St. in Oakland [East Bay!]

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