Trade clothes at Swap-O-Rama- Rama in Venice

You'd be forgiven if you thought it was merely about looking cool. But "the key thing about swap is it's a way to 'upcycle,' " explains Lori Petitti, coordinator of Saturday's used clothes marathon in Venice. "That's the new buzz word, to take things that would otherwise be thrown away and end up in a landfill, to make them into things that you really want to keep."

By Mindy Farabee

June 26, 2008