I (Allison) was recently in Sioux City, Iowa, and wandered into Antiques on Historic Fourth, which is -- as the title describes -- is an antiques store on Fourth Street in the city's historic district. It was filled with plenty of vintage home furnishings, but also had an unbelievably extensive inventory of antique jewelry, hats, [...]
Calling all zombies and witches! America’s 2,450 Goodwill stores have shifted into overdrive for Halloween 2019, expanding its offerings of costumes, makeup and party props. Some stores are even adding personal costume helpers this month to help you create that clever but low-cost Halloween look. In the last decade, our nation’s largest purveyor of resale [...]
We’ve said it before, and it gets truer every year. Halloween is the major holiday for thrift stores. In October, they see new customers and customers who might shop there only that month. More and more thrift stores are stocking new costume accessories – witches’ hats, play swords, masks, fake beards, costume makeup, plastic vampire [...]
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. [...]
