Tag Archives: thrifting

Red Suede Love

What I might love most about thrifting is the fortuitous find — that thing that you weren’t looking for or that you had never even imagined existed, but upon stumbling across it on a rack filled with duller possibilities, fills … Continue reading

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Shopping with Threadbared: A Conversation

The “shiny things” rack in the office that is Mimi’s closet. There is a ’60s gold brocade dress, a vintage Missoni mini dress with sequins and cascading shades of gold mesh, a ’70s black disco dress with gold thread, a … Continue reading

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LINKAGE/VINTAGE: Thunderhorse Vintage

I’m leaving town in a couple days, so the series of posts on politics of vintage continues here with an excerpt from an interview with Sacramento’s Thunderhorse Vintage co-owners and twin sisters Marilyn and Jen Ayres, published in the UC … Continue reading

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WATCHING: Secondhand (Pepe)

I want to write about thrifting, both my personal history with thrifting (as war refugees, my family and I spent a good portion of our first decade in the United States in secondhand clothing) plus an analytic of thrifting (as, … Continue reading

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