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A Thrift Shop Looking For A Comeup: Goodwill Goes High-End
Resale shops are increasingly present in the retail landscape, especially popular with younger shoppers. One of the most iconic thrift stores in the U.S., Goodwill, is getting into the competition.
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Five Basic Hand Stitches You Should Know for Repairing Your Own Clothes
There’s no need to spend money when you can fix something yourself. If you’ve popped a button on your shirt, worn down a hem on your pants, or busted a seam in your dress, these five hand sewing techniques can help you fix things in snap. By Patrick Allan.
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The Sheltersuit Is A Wearable Homeless Shelter Made From Sleeping Bags
The Sheltersuit is a home that you wear. Designed in the Netherlands for use by homeless people, the suit is a water-resistant, insulated jacket and sleeping bag, which zip together to keep the wearer warm and dry when they sleep on the street. "The Netherlands is well set up for the homeless," designer Bas Timmer told Co.Exist, "but for every person who gets a bed, one still sleeps rough." Timmer was moved to do something when the father of a friend died on the street...
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If you buy these jeans, you’ll never have to worry about washing them
We scratched our heads in disbelief when the Levis CEO, Chip Bergh, proudly proclaimed that he hadn’t washed his pair of jeans in over a year. How could he live like that? Didn’t he have any sense of personal hygiene? Was he immune to the swathes of bacteria that must have accumulated on the fabric? Yuck.
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Made in North Korea: $300 ski jackets, and a whole lot more
Australian sportswear brand Rip Curl made a public apology this week after it emerged that some of its ski gear had been made in one of North Korea’s state-owned factories — some of the world’s worst places to work, whose profits help prop up one of its most abusive regimes. The leisurewear, destined to insulate snowboarding Westerners for $300+, was labeled “Made in China” before it made its way to retailers.
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Flower Sack Dresses From the Flour Mills
In times gone by, amidst widespread poverty, the Flour Mills realized that some women were using sacks to make clothes for their children. In response, the Flour Mills started using flowered fabric…
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Before Banana Republic Was Mainstream Fashion, It Was a Weirdly Wonderful Safari Brand
Mel Ziegler still recalls the day in the early 1980s when he and his wife, Patricia, opened the most unusual clothing store Beverly Hills, Calif., had ever seen. With its jungle expedition theme, the store featured live tropical foliage, a Quonset hut to house the shoe department and an actual stream gurgling down the center of the sales floor. Life-size model giraffes and elephants stood amid old leather suitcases and wooden-crate racks piled with khaki "safari" clothing—Ghurka...
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Beyoncé clothing range is made by 'sweat shop labourers on £4.30 a day'
Beyoncé’s new range of women’s sportswear is made using sweat shop labourers who earn as little as £4.30 a day, it has been reported. The American pop star’s Ivy Park gym gear is sold by Top Shop, the high street fashion retailer owned by Sir Philip Green, who is already facing criticism over the collapse of department store BHS. The Sun on Sunday reported the clothing range – which Beyoncé said she hopes will “support and inspire women” – is made by...
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Slow Fashion – or the art of sustainable dressing – catching on fast in Maine
Encouraging the use of environmentally friendly textiles and local and regional fibers in the making of clothing, the Slow Fashion movement is growing, one stitch at a time. By Mary Pols.
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I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my life
Motivated by Octieber and determined to combat the world of gendered clothing, Lucy Rycroft-Smith tries menswear for a month and documents her findings.
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With sale to Canadian firm, American Apparel will be American no longer
With edgy marketing, an audacious founder and quality clothing sewn in Los Angeles, American Apparel was held up as a rare success story in U.S. manufacturing at a time when many in the garment industry were racing overseas.
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The Enduring, Anxious Appeal of Gray
Is it a color that means nothing — or is that the point? By Kyle Chayka.
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How Stores Are Designed To Fat Shame
Store layouts often discriminate against plus-size shoppers, writes professor Kathryn Anthony. What can be done about it?
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Do you know how to identify well-made clothes?
It is increasingly difficult to find high-quality clothes that will last and look good for years, but it's worth putting in the effort. By Katherine Martinko.
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The history of glitter.
We traced the substance from cave paintings to glitter bombs, what makes glitter annoying is also what makes it powerful.
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Google Digitizes 3,000 Years of Fashion History
The massive “We Wear Culture Project” includes 30,000 online artifacts from over 180 institutions. By Jason Daley.
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Bullet Bras Were All The Rage In The 1940s And 1950s, And These 10+ Pics Will Poke Your Eyes
You don’t see many bullet bras these days but they were very popular during the 1940s and 1950s. They were made famous by the sweater girls (various Hollywood actresses who adopted the fashion of wearing tight sweaters over a cone or bullet-shaped bra), and Madonna even wore one designed by Jean Paul Gaultier during her Blond Ambition Tour back in 1990.
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Clothes That Don’t Need You
What kind of artist is Rei Kawakubo? Let’s call her a combinatory formalist. She is unusually adept at combining the many disparate influences that course through her designs into unlikely, arresting, contrapuntal compositions. She is first of all a creator of images—of pictures liberated from their original settings, and in this she belongs with the Pictures Generation, that group of mediacentric artists who were among her first devotees. Fashion is the place where the associative, imagistic mind can run riot with impunity; it’s a postmodernist playground. By David Salle.
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When Every Bra Size is Wrong
What I’m about to recommend to you isn’t in any way a solution. By Mallory Ortberg.
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Second skin
The complex and thriving world of Islamic fashion. The images of Turkish Islamic fashion (known as Tesettür) reveal a strong preference for tailored outfits which conceal the flesh and elongate the body. By Emma Tarlo.
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