Wearable rubbish

Buying from charity shops and swapping clothes with your friends is a fantastic alternative to buying new. Foundclothing takes it a step further. This blog is totally dedicated to finding clothes in skips, in rubbish bins and left on the street.

No, searching through bags of rubbish for my next great outfit isn’t my idea of a pleasurable past time, and I know for sure that Mr Daisy would raise an eyebrow, but I love this site and it has really inspired me to keep my eyes open for great finds when out and about wandering the streets.

The items they have found are fabulous and totally re-useable. (Anyone else wondering why they were thrown in the bin in the first place?)

One of my favourite projects on there is called One Cold Hand. The people of Pittsburgh collected all the random pairs of gloves that they stumbled across with the aim of reuniting them with their owner. All those that weren’t, were washed and donated to charity. An interactive lost property box!

I feel a new obsession coming on. Charity shops move over, you’ll see me head first in all the skips in our local vicinity!

(Of course, Daisy wouldn’t really condone this activity. It is, after all, illegal in the UK to rummage and take from other peoples’ bins and skips. We will definitely be keeping our eyes peeled though, as they say – one girl’s rubbish is another girl’s treasure. And we can always ask the previous owner if they’d mind us taking their garbage to a new home!)