On Saturday the annual Bindaring Red Cross Appeal was held
at Claremont Showgrounds. They had a jumble clothing sale and a boutique
clothing sale, as well as a boutique silent auction.
Plenty of women lined up in the wet weather at 9am to get a
head start into the boutique clothing sale, items ranging from $15 - $60.
I tell you what, I never seen the phenomenon of women in
hunt of awesome clothes at insanely low prices. Clothing was literally flying
off the masses of racks that were jammed side by side in a warehouse type room,
women grabbing hangers and clothes out of your hand from the other side of
racks, laundry baskets being carried around, filled to the brim, 6 year old
boys being treated as manservants, holdings all of Mummy’s items.
The changing “room” (if you can even call it that) was a
sectioned off area on the far side of one wall, covered in sheeting with a few
stand alone home mirrors scattered down the length of the wall, the floor
covered in various articles of clothing and a whole lot of flesh, bras and
underwear, arms going everywhere ripping off pants, tops and whatever else
women were discarding in favour of trying on some new clothes. Amazing.
I was stunned, I felt slightly out of my depth!
However, I didn’t manage to get a really nice Italian jacket
for only $20.
After that affair had quietened down, they had the boutique
auction. This was really cool, bidding starting from $50 for various outfits
that were getting modelled a runway. Unfortunately I didn’t get any photos of
this, as the windows right behind the models was streaming in light and
wouldn’t let me get a good shot!
This auction had outfits totalling more than $2000 that went
for a few hundred dollars, labels such as Zara, Marc Jacobs, Scanlan &
Theodore & Armani. The bidding started pretty low and some women walked
away with whole outfit (pants, top, jacket, shoes) for $80!!
I Saw some women sneak away with huge bags full of clothes
and others who’s faces were lit up as they had found a few key pieces. There was
some really cool vintage stuff there, definitely put it into your calendar for
next year. There was also a sausage sizzle, cupcakes, muffins and cake and a a
silent jewellery auction as well.
All in all this was a great event, run by the Australian Red
Cross and benefiting West Australian Youth as well but make sure you get there
early!
