Thrift shopping is in vogue
No, I'm not making this up.
Teens are heading to the thrift store.
From the article: "There's only so much they're going to find from a department store, so it's sending them searching for other options," says Tina Wells, the young CEO of the New York-based Buzz Marketing Group, who works with a network teenage trend spotters all over the world.
They tell her the secondhand trend is partly an outgrowth of the vintage and "retro" clothing craze.
Audrey Sanders goes through
her closet Friday.
(Kiichiro Sato/Associated Press)
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This has been true at least since I was in high school. The downtown Salvation Army was actually quite the hang-out for middle class white kids who thought old clothes were cool. I was among them.
You only really feel like an ass when you're walking through the isles looking for cool vintage stuff and you come face to face with some mother who is in the store because she's trying to put clothes on the backs of her children and can't afford what they're charging at Wal-Mart.
Every trend is a double-edged sword.
Posted on September 17, 2006 9:55 PM