Trade clothes on swapping website
BY SARAH CODDINGTON
REALLY SWISH: Karin Sjosten, left, and Victoria Penney have created a clothes swapping website called iswish.
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People are swapping everything from Trelise Cooper dresses to clothes designed by pop-icon Madonna.
Birkenhead residents Karin Sjosten and Victoria Penney have just launched a clothes swapping website called iswish.
The pair met at a mothers’ coffee group and wanted to get back into the working world.
After exchanging clothes during each other’s pregnancies and hosting swap parties they decided to expand
their swapping circle.
"Our children are six months apart. I swapped an Anne Klein leather jacket for a Fancy Mummy’s Tummy maternity skirt," says Mrs Penney.
The pair, originally from Sweden and England, knew websites in the United Kingdom and the United States existed and thought the time was right to start one in New Zealand.
"Everyone comes out better off and you still get that shopping buzz," says Mrs Penney.
Mrs Sjosten says the website caters for men, women and kids’ clothing, and is about swapping quality items.
"This is for goods you have brought on a whim and they don’t fit well, the heels too wide for your foot or the dress doesn’t fit," says Mrs Penney.
They say a lot of the people who are swishing are well travelled, so lots of overseas labels are being swapped.
It costs nothing to swap and you can meet the swapper or post the item.
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