Living with Fashion, Giving with Style.
I’ve got this complex “chance operation” generator that I use to pick the music I listen to on daily basis. This method involves a pair of dice, a set of Scrabble tiles and a bunch of playing cards and it’s really, really geeky. Recently, this music selection method informed me that I needed to listen [...]
A new generation of thrifters is reimagining thrift fashion in ways I find thrilling. At the head of the pack are Holly and Laurie of Operation Sparkle – they’re 100% positive, creative and driven souls; not only are their finds fantastic, their views are so fresh I’ve got no excuse to turn all fuddy-duddy. In [...]
After Lisa shared the sunny side of San Francisco thrifting in the Mission, I thought I would post from the western, fogged-in side of the City. I’ve been away from San Francisco, checking out antique malls and “shopping” from the basement of my antique dealer parents’ home in Missouri. No matter how fun free [...]
Thrift Shop Record Hop, an Introduction By Rich Wilhelm Hi there. My name is Rich and I collect records—both albums and singles, as well as the occasional old-time 78. I’ve been collecting records since around 1975, when I was 10 years old. I keep up with the times—I have CDs and MP3s and I even [...]
Shopping Thrift Stores for Plus Size Fashions, by Charity Agomuo As long as I can remember I have been a big girl. When I was younger, my mother would by my clothes out of the JCPENNY’s Catalog, which at that time had a great line of clothing for “husky” little boys and girls.
A Tisket A Tasket, Thrift Your Easter Basket By Mimi Novak A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket… Did you know that we Americans spend close to two billion dollars on Easter each year? And, why should we, when we can find amazing Easter goodies at our local thrift store? Just follow these 5 easy steps to creating [...]
Thrifting For Vintage, by Elissa Stern We’re about to delve into my favorite topic within thrifting: shopping for vintage at a thrift store. In my opinion, there is nothing that can replicate the high of scoring a unique, vintage item when thrifting. I adore knowing that not only will I wear a piece that [...]
(With apologies to The Eagles) One of These Nightstands Hi, I’m Lisa, and I have the amazing good fortune to live within walking distance of not one, not two, not three but FOUR thrift stores in San Francisco’s Mission District—a neighborhood that manages to be both trendy and down-to-earth. I’d spent most of my life [...]
Because I’ve been knee-deep in 30×30 THRIFT NYC, I petulantly whined at John Painz, our lovely director, cameraman and one of my personal touchstones, to take on an assignment that would interest him.
Christine has written for us before, in Diary of a Thrift Store Convert, and I dearly hope she continues. I’ve been busy working to bring thrifting to the mainstream, and framing items in thrift stores as eligible replacements for those found in retail requires a bit of imagination and quite a lot of marketing. The [...]
