We wrote an article for Shondaland.com about thrifting tips, gleaned from our trips to more than 400 thrift shops coast to coast, as well as observations from other avid thrifters. We meant to link to it two months ago, but it's all timeless, useful information! Here's the link: https://www.shondaland.com/live/style/a29802989/how-to-make-thrift-store-shopping-chic/ Michelle Raven, of Minneapolis, founder of [...]
Owners of many thrift stores are battling the ancient view of used clothing emporiums as a jumble of items, requiring lots of effort to hunt through their wares. We found a successful warrior in the Renewed Thrift store in Lake City, Florida, just south of the Georgia border off the major north/south route of Interstate [...]
Fashion is having a jungle love moment right now. Leopard, zebra and snakeskin prints are everywhere. Leopard is a classic print that never really goes out of style. Everybody should have a showstopping leopard piece they can pull out and wow with at a moment's notice. This Misook swing coat is an example of that. [...]
The Denver neighborhood south of downtown known as “LoBo” (short for “Lower Broadway”) features a six-block mini neighborhood called Antique Row. The area’s 100-year-old buildings, once home to factories and boarding houses, now are filled with shops offering vintage clothing, rare books, rugs, handmade musical instruments, florists, art galleries, gift shops, a custom metal plating [...]
A look at vintage streetwear sold at the Rose Bowl Flea Market reveals that the best place to find in-demand sports and rock concert T-shirts is the bins at Goodwill outlet stores. The article also notes that fashion designers are "borrowing" the look of secondhand wear, and observes that buyers are looking to reduce textile [...]
What better way to celebrate August 17th, National Thrift Store Day, then at a volunteer-driven thrift that helps support fully a dozen charities, helping with housing, prison ministries, hunger issues and more. The New Life Thrift Shop in Lewes, Delaware, is a ministry of the Lewes-Rehoboth Association of Churches, drawing on the membership of some [...]
Upscale marketing can be an uneasy fit with a thrift store. Sadly, we see this in a three-month old Goodwill Boutique in Pawley’s Island, S.C. Housed in a large stand-alone store along the main north-south route in the Grand Strand resort area, the store is subtly advertised with the script logo “GW,” referring to Goodwill. [...]
