In theory, apps for selling secondhand clothes such as Vinted, Depop, ThredUp and Schpock offer an opportunity to be both thrifty and fashionable. Good news for shoppers worried about rising costs and the sustainability of buying new clothes. Secondhand markets like...
With the smell of freshly ground coffee flooding in from the cafe next door and the light bustle of people haggling for discounts on second-hand clothing, The Slow Fashion Collective is situated in the heart of Cape Town’s vintage fashion district: Lower Main Road,...
A few weeks ago, Zara, the Spanish fashion chain with stores all over the world, announced that it was branching into the secondhand market. With a pilot test in the United Kingdom, through the Zara Pre-Owned platform, it is set to offer the option of reselling a Zara...
The circular fashion movement is a response to environmental, social and economic impacts of the fashion industry’s waste crisis. We now know that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of clothing end up in landfill, are burnt or are jettisoned by bale loads from the Global...
There is a growing number of secondhand clothing resellers and vintage stores in the formal market, as well as vendors and markets in the informal economy. We know very little about the origins of the garments, how they end up in our local thrift stores and on...
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