General Chat

Just talking to my friend, she said she had noticed the Oxfam campaign.and commented how long would it take men to start fancying young girls wearing bras.? Then it all got a bit silly with nuns and women in burkas , perhaps we should educate the men instead !!

Quite agree with you Lindsey*....something else for me to ask about :-)

I used to run a charity shop, and there was always zips, buttons cottons that were pushed in a corner and inevitably scrapped that could have been sent and used.

I'm all for teaching people a skill to improve their own lives rather than just giving hand outs. although men will always rape given the opportunity, girls need to be educated how to be safe .

Ello Ann :-D

As far as l know its only BRA'S :-D

jude :-D

what about knickers Jude? :-D

Wow thank you K in the desert :-D :-D :-D

Rita...thats brill, good on you :-D :-D

l will definately ask the manager about the sewing machines. Maybe they are sent out anyways for other kinds of sewing. l will try and find out on the website later.

jude :-D

Thank you Jude, I didn't know about this scheme.
I shall copy your original post and send it in an e.mail to all my female friends....hopefully we can all do our bit to help the ladies in Africa.

Karen

Nudge for anyone that might find this useful:)

jude :-)

Beg to differ there, !

you cant make a Bra on a manual machine,

I have a stack of unworn knickers - d'you think they would want them?

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sent all my 38DDs to oxfam when i lost weight,unfortunately weight came off in all the wrong places. :-D :-D

Good point Lindsay....don't think we have any though, but l'll mention it to the manager, maybe there is a reason why they have'nt sent any!!

jude :-)

Nearly every charity shop has old manual working sewing machines.
It seems a bit short -sighted not to send them to Africa, then they can manufacture their own underwear ?

Thanks ShellyRose:)

You may need to remind the shop to put the bra's into there rag bag, thats the one that gets sent for recycling :-) :-) :-)

Jude,
I didn't know about this, it's a great idea, we've got an Oxfam shop in our town, so will ask about donating. My daughter and I recently had a sort out of old unwanted bras, and they were going in the bin. luckily I've bagged them up. So thanks for that info. glad they'll hopefully be going to a good cause. (I just hate throwing anything away, especially clothes).
Best Wishes,

ShelleyRose x :-) :-)

I bought a couple of coselettes. you know,the all in one jobs at an outlet shop for a friend.

They were incorrectly labelled and did not fit her. Ideally, we would have liked to have given them to a charity who pass them to a woman whose back needed support but could not find one.

What we didn't want was to put them in a shop for some old perv to buy. But then again, I suppose old pervs need help as well.

do they use egg cover in these counties AnnC,,,,

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d'you think they would welcome some 32JJ's