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...things in this world I absolutely love.” Provost has a love-hate relationship with the market economy. Seated in the Dunster House courtyard, she dons a detectably African top ($1), snacks on fresh plump strawberries ($5), and shows off her hot-off-the-shelves purchase, a thrift-store turquoise dress with a brown stain to boot ($6 or $7, she estimates). “I am a hypocrite,” she says, adding that she’s tried dumpster-diving and sewing her own clothes. “To right now divorce myself entirely from...
...stores are planned for this year. Crossroads Trading Co., based in Berkeley, Calif., rang up $20 million in sales last year at its 22 stores and also plans to add three stores. The number of resale shops is growing 5% annually, according to the National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops. There are no national estimates of the size of the used-clothing industry, since most of the country's 20,000 resale shops are individually owned and many other sellers operate online. But Goodwill Industries, one of the largest players, sold $1.8 billion worth of donated goods--much...
...boys’ (read: final) clubs. For others, it’s a sign of spring and of garden parties. For me, it represents neither and that’s probably why I like it. I bought my first and only seersucker blazer in Canada at a thrift shop on summer break after freshman year. It was in mint condition, the right size, and the perfect price ($10). Canada is an odd locale for seersucker suits, and even after attending high school there, I have yet to see any of it worn on the shores of British Columbia. Thus...
...expected,” says Fish. “Working on a limited budget is a little difficult for the designers, but for what it’s worth, they came up with some pretty great clothing.”The clothes in the show are a mixture of thrift store finds, students’ own clothing, pieces lent from local shops such as Mudo—a co-sponsor of the show—and original student designs. Hyphen, a San Francisco-based magazine on modern Asian-American life and culture, is also co-sponsoring the show and providing...
...down a proposal to provide free copies of The New York Times in undergraduate dining halls for the balance of the academic year. Both the President’s Office and the Freshman Dean’s Office passed on paying for the papers this year, despite the relatively thrift-friendly price tag ($1,728). The UC was eager to follow suit, even though a trial run of the program earlier this year got rave reviews...