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...your way in to Dollar-A-Pound, a man hands you a large white plastic garbage bag. You won't see him again until it's time...
...blouses at arm's length, occasionally pausing to try one on. There are no dressing rooms, just a couple of mirrors propped up against bare walls. When you have finished your scavenging, you haul your sack to the door, where the man weighs your bulging load. One dollar per pound. The man makes change from a roll of dog-eared singles. No cash register, no receipt. It is a no-nonsense ritual which repeats itself every weekend, starting...
Located four blocks from the Kendall T stop at200 Broadway, Cambridge's Garment District andDollar-a-Pound are manifestations of the recycledclothes trend. And the history of the organizationtypifies that of the new generation of usedclothing stores appearing across the country.Founded in the 1940's, the company produced"wiping clothes" (i.e. rags) to smokestackindustries, such as sugar manufacturing. Thesweatshirt your dad outgrew in 1958 may have endedup here; it would have undergone a simple processwhich included sorting bales of discarded clothingfrom various sources, cutting them into 18-inchsquares, and adding chemicals to improve thefabric's absorbency...
...Vermonthippie's arrival on the scene. He offered to buyall the flowered shirts from the '60s they had.His request made co-owner Bruce Cohen see a futurefor the struggling rag warehouse. "This stuff isactually worth something," he remembers thinking,and the company shifted to the recycled clothingbusiness: Dollar-A-Pound opened in 1980, and whenthe printing company upstairs moved out six yearslater, The Garment District was established...
Today the company receives clothes from acrossthe country, grades, sorts, and then sells them.The best merchandise is steam-cleaned and soldupstairs in The Garment District; the lower-gradeitems are sold in the basement at Dollar-A-Pound,and the rest is shipped out to wiping clothmanufactures or other used clothing stores acrossthe country...