Boys will be girls at Oxfam store

By Paul Jump, Third Sector, 8 August 2007

Vintage baby-doll nighties and oversized stilettos were among the items on offer in a Leeds Oxfam shop's inaugural night for transvestites and transgender people.

All of the shop's menswear was replaced for the event with oversized and extravagant women's clothes salvaged from Oxfam's warehouse of unsold items in Huddersfield. Sally Stone, manager of the store, said the germ of the idea had been a "tongue in cheek" window display featuring male mannequins dressed in...

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