Easter bonnets may be out of style, but shopping smart never is!
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Shopping the recycled way
Happy Spring!
It’s Spring! Have a Thrift-Venture with your BFFs… take aim at resale!
There’s no better way to replenish your wardrobe with stylish, new-to-you clothing and accessories than to shop together with a few friends. Who else will encourage you to try a new style or a different color? Or tell you if those jeans make your butt look fab?
Grab your GPS, stuff some cash in your jeans, and take aim at your local consignment, resale and thrift shops on the Resale Directory & Zoomable Map at HowToConsign.com
Just one word of warning though… be sure the friends you shop with are a size smaller or larger than you. You don’t want to argue over who gets that incredible find!
Oh, you smell good… and appropriate!
One of the most popular items in womenswear resale shops is… perfume!
Why? It’s called fragrance wardrobing… having a variety of scents, just like you have a variety of fashion looks. No longer is it all about your “signature scent”, as your mom or grandma would say. Change up your perfume when you kick off the stilettos and slip into the Toms… or vice versa.
But there are some concerns. Let’s call them the Ps & Qs of Perfume Wearing, or as this article concludes:
Fragrance wardrobing allows us to express the many sides of who we are in any given environment and mood. There is certainly no shortage of great choices in fragrances but it is when and how we wear it, that will give the biggest impact of all.
Read Being led by the nose – the etiquette of wearing perfume
then do two things: see if you have scents you aren’t wearing that you should pass on to someone else… and go see what perfumes you can buy, just barely-used, at your favorite consignment, resale, or thrift shop!
Vintage label image courtesy of olddesignshop.com
Shop. Discover. Repeat.
Shop. Discover. Repeat.
The best way to shop consignment, resale & thrift shops?
OFTEN.
And he knew what he was talking about!
Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money. -Albert Hadley
Albert Hadley, a renowned interior designer whose brave and creative eye, distilling both classic and contemporary styles, made him a standard-bearing decorator for the rich and powerful in American society. Photo and text from The New York Times
Those friends of yours who always seem to find the best things when shopping resale?
You know, the ones who spot the cashmere in a sea of acrylic? The ones whose homes are ever-evolving into better quality furnishings? Whose closets and cupboards are full of found treasures that they are all too happy to tell you how little they paid for?
They’re the ones to go shopping with.
They’ll know the quality consignment shops, the best resale shops, and the primo thrift stores. Pay attention… and you’ll pay less for quality, distinctive new-to-you than you would mass-produced run-of-the-mill boring stuff at the mega-stores.
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