It was mid-2010 and I was sitting and getting my foils done at the salon, talking to my hairdresser, and friend of more than seven years, Angie Dimitriou.
“It was horrible, Meg,” she was saying. “These poor people are in their 20s and 30s and they have to live in nursing homes because there’s no other facilities to help them.”
She was talking about a news segment she’d seen on The Project the night before and was very upset.
“We have to do something. We have to raise money or run an event or something,” she said.
As my highlights developed we began brainstorming. We both love fashion and love shopping and – like any normal 20-something Melbourne girl – we also loved bargains and markets. An idea began to form.
Angie’s salon Boda Haircutters is located on Greville St, just a few shops back from Chapel St – Melbourne’s fashion precinct. We realised we could host our own market, here in the salon, and invite all our friends to come and set up stalls and sell off the things they no longer like or wear. It would be like a Camberwell market event, but inside, and we could take a cut of their profits to give to charity.
We came up with the name Walk-in Wardrobe as we thought walking into a salon filled with racks of clothing and stalls would have that feeling.