Sunday feature: Painfully Hip comes to Fayetteville

The ladies of Painfully Hip are coming through Fayetteville and offering their chic fashion swapmeet style on Sunday at the Mayapple Salon and Boutique. Here’s how they describe themselves on their blog:

Painfully Hip is a cheap chic fashion blog with a bit of a travel bug. We feature thrifted outfits of the day, online indie boutique discounts, diy ideas, thrifty travel tips, exclusive fashion editorials featuring vintage, handmade jewelry and unknown local designers. We have a weakness for audacious prints and blinding color. Its all about inspiring you to discover your own unrepentant personal style.

And here’s a description on how these events proceed:

Bring your cast-offs separated into 2 different bundles – Things You Still Sort of Love and Things You Could Really Give Two Shits About Because They’re Off to the Goodwill Bin Next Week Anyway. On the way in the door, you’ll be tossing the latter into a big pile to be dealt with later.

We don’t want the swapping to be too organized so to make it more organic, we’re going to be swapping in a sort of bartering system. Example: you see that Fiona over there has the exact leather jacket you’ve been pining for? You may have to swap for 2 nice pairs of jeans and a floral sundress to get her to part with it, but to you it’s more than worth it. Or perhaps you’re lucky and she’s feeling generous enough to give it to you in exchange for a beer, you never know! So needless to say, there will be wandering and mingling, therefore laundry baskets for easy carrying/digging through would be a good idea. So bring your best stuff for this part of the evening and take home what you don’t find a good replacement for.

Toward the end of it all, around 6pm, we’ll have an all-out GRABfest with all the unwanted leftovers in a pile in the middle of the room. I suggest wearing a leotard or bathing suit under your clothes so if you’re bashful you can try things on right there without fear of nip-slippage.

We will be providing music and some snackage (nothing fancy) and bashfully hoping for any generous donations to help keep our costs down.

Thanks and we’ll see you at the Swap!

Christopher Spencer

Christopher Spencer, 36, is the publisher and owner of Ozarks Unbound and the food news site, The Fayetteville Food File. He is the chair of the Fayetteville Creative Economy Action Group and the social media chair of the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He's also the founder of WordCamp Fayetteville. You can always contact him at cspencer@ozarksunbound.com

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2 Comments

• Jeannette Balleza says:

  July 4, 2009 at 3:14 pm

  Should be lots of fun. Bring wearables that you’re ready to give up or trade up, and get ready to thrift-swap! See you there. We’ll be making cucumber tea sandwiches and offering refreshments.
• Heather Kendrick-Gerlaugh says:

  July 4, 2009 at 3:46 pm

  Can’t wait!!

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