Creative Showcase: Mrs Swishing

Meet Jenna Gregory (pictured) part of the creative duo with Rechenda Smith behind Mrs Swishing.

Tell us a bit about your journey and where you are today.

Mrs Swishing are Rechenda Smith and Jenna Gregory (pictured), a creative duo from Colchester. Rechenda now works on marketing projects and email campaigns, whilst organising sewing, knitting and art projects as a hobby, including her scheme Crafty Types. Jenna writes for fashion mags, including Marie Claire and Look, whilst geeking out with video editing, SEO and blogging in her spare time. We have worked together over the past six years on PR and media campaigns and have decided to join our creative forces and our passions once again to create Mrs Swishing, a clothes swapping and sustainable fashion community.

What do you think of our membership hub and Colchester’s growing Cultural Quarter?

It’s fantastic that creatives can join together with the membership hub. There are so many creative people in Colchester, but at times in the past ideas have fallen flat as there wasn’t the external support to help them grow or nurture them. Now people can come together at 15 Queen Street to get an idea off the ground.

Give us a sneaky peek of what you are working on right now.

We are putting the final touches to our first clothes swapping event which takes place at Wivenhoe Cricket Club on the 15th January. For those new to the concept of swishing, the idea is people bring up to 10 items of good quality, but unwanted, items that they want to swap in return for something new. People can end up with new clothes and accessories they love whilst their old items have gone to a better home. The whole process will beat those till prices plus promote ecological and sustainable fashion.

We’re culprits to clothes hoarding, but have always swapped clothes amongst ourselves. But when we read over £1.6billion is spent in the UK on more than 500 million items of unwanted clothing, we decided we should be swapping on a bigger scale to get others to swish too!

For tickets, rules of the rails and all other info go to Mrs Swishing on Facebook, Twitter, or email us.

Thank you ladies. Grab some old frocks and get down to the Wivenhoe Cricket Club tomorrow for the first swishing event of the year. Visit the eventbrite for more.