organisers then estimate its value on the basis of brand quality and condition in return they provide the swapper with tokens or coins using which they can shop for clothes turned in by other swappers the idea is to have a system akin to having a clothing library in placethrough this clothes swap event we want to encourage sustainable fashion and bring likeminded people from various walks of life together to engage in activities that have the capacity to bring about a healthy change explains ankita shroff a member of the sweden alumni network pune chapterit impossible to take fashion away from a person because as time passes we evolve the fashion sense and the trends change and people want to keep up with these changes the problem here is that you dont realise the fact that as you are accumulating more clothes you are forgetting what you are leaving behind and you are not really using it so i feel an event like this is a very good platform for those people to get rid of the 20 per cent of their unused clothes around 85 to 95 per cent of the clothes that people have given at this event are from well known or high end brands in this way they might end up being used by someone who cannot afford high end brands but aspire to wear those colours styles and cuts says doni mehta owner of the delicare laundry service who also participated in the event to ensure that the clothes donated were exhibited in the best conditionthe organisers collected a total number of 700 clothes for the event of which 450 were swapped and 250 donatedswapping is a gamechanger say shoppersamit pathak a student who attended the recent event in pune says i think it is a wonderful idea to exchange things without money being involved and then reusing them its a truly circular economy which is furthering sustainability the quality of clothes i found here was just wonderful as well says amitnisha saraf another student who attended the event added i am a designer and i try to include sustainable concepts in my design to give away things i dont use and get amazing clothes in exchange was amazing i gave about 14 clothes and got eight in returnapart from ensuring the clothing they give is in the right condition tanwi and her team also asked people to include a little note alongside each item explaining its backstoryall the outfits that were swapped had a story associated with them for example a lady who donated a couple of clothes had small stories about each that explained why she couldnt wear them anymore with tips on how to maintain them these little things add that personal touch to the clothes that you are picking up says tanwion similar lines doni received 89 outfits from one of his customers for the swap which were all highend pieces the story behind some of them was that