Author: allisonthrifts

It’s a thrifting truism. At stores, you often find multiples of the same brand, same style and same size of clothing items. Someone really liked a shirt, a pair of shoes or a blazer, and bought it in various colors and patterns. Then, they changed their mind, were ready for a new season, were downsizing [...]

It’s Labor Day weekend, and hundreds of thousands of Americans will be flocking to resort towns, which can be ideal locations for thrifting. That's because resort communities often are populated with transplants from elsewhere who are eager to offload excess items. One stellar example is Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home of All Saints’ Parish Thrift Shop, [...]

We visited more than 165 thrift, consignment and antique stores while putting together our book, ThriftStyle: The Ultimate Bargain Shopper’s Guide to Smart Fashion. We found incredible bargains in clothes for men and women, shoes, purses and jewelry, and then photographed them on real people – family and friends. Photographer Roger Snider, known for his [...]

Today, Aug. 17, is National Thrift Shop Day, and we honor it by profiling a store in California that is near and dear to the ThriftStyle authors. The honest truth is that our upcoming book, ThriftStyle: The Ultimate Bargain Shopper’s Guide to Smart Fashion, could not have been written without our go-to shop, Desert Best [...]