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For creators

Donate the clothes from your videos. They carry on.

Clothes tell stories, and yours already have one: the video, the day, the people who watched. Give the piece to us and the story keeps going. It goes to a gala, an interview, a wedding, and every stop is recorded on its page. You get a prepaid mailer, an itemized tax receipt, and a closet page with your name on it. Bought it, got sent it, wore it once: all of it counts.

Reality stars sell their worn-once clothes on their own resale sites. First Ladies send inauguration gowns to a museum. This is the third way: the clothes stay in use, and the record is public.

What happens to the clothes after the video

The dress from the haul, the outfit from the brand deal, the PR package you opened once, the jacket from the trip. Most of it has three futures. Here is how they compare.

Sell it

Resale apps and personal closet sales turn it into cash, once. The piece leaves your story the day it ships, and gifted items usually count as income first, so the tax picture is not as clean as it looks.

Keep it

The closet fills, the content does not. Pieces sit. If you can name the last time you wore it, you already know.

Give it a closet for good

We rent it out for galas, weddings, interviews and school dances, again and again. You get an itemized 501(c)(3) receipt and a page at fashionablygood.com/closet/your-name that counts every rental and shows every event photo. The piece keeps working, and so does your name on it.

How it works

Request a mailer

A bag, a prepaid USPS label and instructions arrive in a few days. Nothing to print, nothing to pay. Big closets get a box, or several.

Fill it

Dresses, suits, shoes, bags, jewelry, coats. Clean, no damage, any size. A note with your handle, and the video each piece was in if you like; that goes on the piece's page as the first line of its story.

We list each piece

Photographed, written up, given its own page and Historic Thread. You get the itemized receipt by email once intake is done.

Your closet page goes live

Opt in and we publish fashionablygood.com/closet/your-name: every piece, every rental, every event. Link it from your bio and it keeps updating.

The tax part, plainly. Clothes you bought can be deducted at fair market value if you itemize. Clothes a brand sent you usually count as income at their value when you received them, and donating them later generally lets you deduct what you reported, not more, and only if you itemize. Pieces you already took as a business expense have no basis left to deduct. We never assign a value; the receipt itemizes each piece and your tax preparer decides what you can claim. Gifts over $500 in total need Form 8283 with your return. Full write-up: what to do with PR packages and gifted clothes.

Why a closet page instead of a shout-out

A post disappears in a day. A closet page gets longer every time a piece goes out, and it is proof, not a promise. Your audience can click a dress and see it went to a hospital gala in March and a wedding in June.

Your name on every piece

Each garment page credits the closet it came from and links back to you. That is a permanent, relevant backlink from a nonprofit site, which search engines treat differently from a sponsored one.

Nothing to manage

You do not run the rentals, the cleaning or the shipping. We do. You get an email when something notable happens and a page you can screenshot.

Where the money goes

100% of net rental profits are split across the charities on our Honor Roll at year end. Donors nominate the charities and every nomination goes on the list. Nominate one with your first box.

Or borrow a try-on haul

No pieces to give yet? Shoot ours. We ship a box of designer pieces from the rental closet, you model them, the photos go on each piece's page with your credit and link, and the box goes back in the prepaid bag. No fee, no follower minimum, no affiliate quota. Disclose it as "borrowed from @fashionablygood" and the FTC is satisfied.

What we look for

Clean, well-lit photos of clothes on a real person. Fit, lighting and honesty over follower count. Micro and nano creators are often the best at this.

What you keep

The content, the credit, and the links. Not the clothes. If the pieces left the closet there would be no closet.

Apply for a try-on haul

Three fields. We reply within a week.

Used only to review the application and coordinate the box. No newsletter.

Questions creators ask

Do you take PR packages and gifted items, or only things I bought?

Both. We care that the piece is clean, undamaged and rentable. How it got to you matters for your taxes, not for us.

Can my closet page stay private?

Yes. Closet pages are opt-in. Donate anonymously if you prefer; the receipt is the same either way.

Will you tag me when a piece rents?

We email you for notable events, and the page updates on its own. If a renter shares a photo, it appears on the piece's page and in your closet with their consent.

What if I have a whole wardrobe?

Tell us roughly how much on the mailer form and we send boxes instead of a bag, or arrange a pickup for a very large collection. Estates and studio closets both work this way.

Is this a paid partnership?

No. We are a 501(c)(3) with no staff on salary. There is no payment either direction. What you get is the receipt, the page and the credit.

Do you work with stylists and red-carpet pieces?

Yes. Pieces with a public history get their own treatment, including the option to hold them back from the public catalog. See red carpet and stylist donations.

Start the closet

One mailer, one box, one page with your name on it. The record starts with the first piece.

Get a prepaid mailer