‘It’s become a nepo baby sport’: how secondhand fashion got so expensive
Thanks to gen Z resellers and platforms like Depop, thrifting has lost its subcultural roots – and ballooned into a $350bn businessVintage boutique owner Janelle Best has been rummaging in thrift shop bins since the 90s. When she started, she says, there was a stigma about it. “It was either you were a freak, or you were poor – and I was a freak.”At first, she did it to source stage outfits while playing in psych-rock bands. Then, in 2005,…
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