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6 Sep 2008
29 November 2007
Vintage fashion website launched to help charity
A new on-line store selling fabulous vintage fashion to help raise funds for the Dr Hadwen Trust has been launched by Bristol-based supporter Emily Wolfe. The store at www.drhadwenvintage.co.uk is a treasure-trove of vintage, designer and quality clothes at bargain prices.
Emily is a science editor who decided to put her considerable wardrobe collection to good use to benefit her favourite charity and refurbish her ailing Victorian sash windows at the same time. Fifty percent of proceeds will go to the Dr Hadwen Trust, the UK’s leading non-animal medical research charity.
“I started wearing and collecting vintage clothes when I was 14 years old.” says Emily, “I had a particular love of 1920s fashion and it was my great aunt Beatrice, who had been a `flapper’ girl, who started me off by giving me her black straw cloche hat. I went home on the bus proudly wearing the hat, and I have hardly been out of the house hatless since that day. I even remember splashing out a whole week’s money to buy a top hat when I was at University!”
There is a great range of fascinating and unique items for sale, with plans to add more in the future including books and jewellery. Current items of interest include beaded and sequinned evening wear, a 1940s beaded jacket, original Homburg hats and a 1920s Turkish jacket with gold embroidery.
The Dr Hadwen Trust is a charity dear to Emily’s heart, with its innovative work funding vital medical research into a range of conditions such as multiple sclerosis, AIDS-related infection, skin cancer and asthma, all without animal experiments. As well as helping to save human lives, the research also finds new ways to replace animal experiments such as cell culture, brain imaging and disease models, and so helps animals too.
“Having gone through the pain of losing my much-loved mum to Alzheimer’s last year,” explains Emily “I want to help alleviate human suffering. But I have a long-standing commitment to supporting efforts to reduce the suffering of all animals, human and non-human, and have been vegetarian and then vegan for nearly 30 years. The Dr Hadwen Trust was an obvious choice for me because their work helps everyone.”
