Gladrags volunteers and attendees at this year's Aging Well Festival
Dear friends,  
 
Welcome to our Autumn newsletter. We’ll be sharing with you our most recent costume stories including, our Christmas campaign and charity vintage clothes sale. You can also find out where you can see our costumes gracing the stages of local and national theatre. 
  
We hope you’ll be inspired by the work we continue to do, bringing communities together through the transformational impact of costume.   
 
Thank you so much for supporting Gladrags and making it possible for us to spread the magic of costume where it is most needed!
You can support our work by donating here
Campaigns & Events
Sustainable Fashion Week (SFW) panel, Brighton Fashion Collective, Sew Fabulous, Gladrags Director, Vania and Dolly Clothing; Our styled costumes on the catwalk; and our SFW stand with a happy Gladrags vintage clothes punter. 
Sustainable Fashion Week
 
Did you join us at this year's fabulous Brighton Fashion Collective's Sustainable Fashion Week's marketplace, textile workshops, and runway extravaganza? If you did, you were part of our city's circular fashion conscious community - celebrating ethical and sustainable apparel. 

We were overjoyed with the engagement we had to our vintage appareal and our collection of 'repair and refashion' clothing, all raising £900 of much needed funds. Our stand also shared information about the sustainable cycle of a Gladrags garment and how our costume provision provides an affordable and accessible costume service to Brighton and beyond.
 
The weekend was rounded off with a panel discussion around sustainability within the fashion world at Lewes Depot Theatre. Where Gladrags Director, Vania Mills was one of the speakers. 
 
Thank you to all Gladrags volunteers who supported us and everyone who enabled this incredibly important event to take place. And to all the new friends we made. 

Please read our Instagram post for more photos and videos HERE.
Our vintage sales room upstairs at Circles Store, Brighton.
Vintage Sales
 
If you’re trying to avoid the Black Friday rush and want to shop sustainably then we invite you to come to Circles Store on Saturday 30th and Sunday December 1st. Where we will be holding a Christmas vintage sale.
 
We’ll have a fabulous selection of winter and festive clothing for sale and all proceeds raised will enable our charity to continue providing affordable and accessible costume provision to those in need in our community. 

Find out more about our sustainability impact HERE.
Volunteer - Sewing Hive Spotlight
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Memories Matters: A Crowdfunder to Support Connection and Combat Isolation 

Our Winter Warmer Appeal this year is raising funds to provide FREE reminiscence sessions for older people in our community.  

We value the life stories and memories of our older community members. Our Memories Matters campaign honors these voices, offering a supportive environment that encourages shared experience and sociability.

Through immersive reminiscence activities, we’re not just listening to the past – we’re celebrating it together. 

Please look out for our Crowdfunder Campaign that will run over the festive holidays.
What's On! 
The Brighton Gay Men's Chorus, Rocky Holly Tinsel Show.

We are truly lucky to have the opportunity to assist such thriving theatre productions by providing our sustainable costumes.

Supporting theatre in Sussex is at the heart of what we do, and we're proud to see how our costumes are brought to life.

We’d love you to support theatre too by booking your tickets to some of the upcoming productions gracing our local stages.


👉 The Brighton Gay Mens Chorus, Outragous performance of the Rocky Holly Tinsel Show, Saturday 7th December at Brighton Dome. For tickets click HERE.

👉 Ditchling Players, amateur theatre, Christmas Carol from November 20th to 23rd. Find out more HERE.

👉 Lewes Little Theatre, Shakespeare in Love. The performance runs from Saturday 30th November to 7th December. Don't miss out click HERE.

👉 Pitchy Breath Theatre Co., Fringe theatre at Hedda Garbler Hawth Theatre Crawley from Thursday 21st to 23rd November. Find out more HERE.

👉 Southwick Players are performing Treasure Island at the Barn Theatre from Sunday 29th December to 4th January. Get your tickets HERE. 
 

We will endeavour to celebrate more of the events and productions that our wonderful customers and beneficiary groups work arduously to produce, in our forth-coming ‘What’s On’! sections. 
Our News
Get Ready for a Festive Christmas Party with Gladrags
  
Looking to add some extra sparkle to your Christmas celebrations? Gladrags has you covered with our Christmas Costume Party Box and Selfie-booth Package.
 
Christmas Costume Party Box: Transform your party into a winter wonderland with our curated costume box. Whether you’re aiming for a classic Santa look, an adorable elf, or a glamorous snow queen, our box has everything you need to dazzle your guests.  

Selfie-booth Package: Capture the magic of the season with our Christmas photobooth package. Perfect for creating lasting memories, our selfie-booth comes with festive props and backdrops that will make every photo a keeper.

Please click here for more details.
Gladrags community outreach volunteer, Marilyn.
Aging Well Festival 

We were thrilled to be part of this years Aging Well Festival. We ran three events for older people in Whitehawk, Bristol Estate and Mouslecoomb.

Our theme was, Dress Through The Decades, igniting memories from the 1960s to the 1980s sparked by a wide selection of clothing and artefacts from our 8000+ costume and vintage fashion collection.

Attendees were able to select outfits and strike a pose in our photobooth and choose tracks from our vinyl collection that encouraged reminiscing of fond times gone by.
Judith, a gladrags volunteer supporting at the event.

The Inclusivity of Costumes 

Our huge breadth of costumes comes into its own supporting the 'Celebrating Diversity' event at Brighton MET. The event welcomed people who have English as a second language who may be seeking refuge and asylum in our City to share stories and make new friends. 

Gladrags’s themed collection of unique costumes from around the world, providing a fun way for people of different cultures to engage with each other.

Thank you to one of our wonderful Gladrags volunteer Judith, who supported us at the outreach event at Brighton MET College. 
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