Everyone wants new clothes for the semester but affording them is another story. Finding affordable clothes that ethically made and create minimal environmental damage is a whole other story. My solution? Thrift shops. By buying used clothes we divert waste from landfills, we get cheaper prices while lowering the demand for new toxic clothes to made. When I do buy new I try to buy as clean as possible which is not easy for a college student to do! So I mainly buy everything thrift.
Yesterday, I went to Crossroads Trading Company in U-district and found some amazing deals! For $116 I bought: shorts, jeans, 2 thick cardigans, button-up, and a trench coat! The brands I found were: LA Made, American Apparel, Madewell, and Knot Sisters. While, other than American Apparel, I have absolutely no idea which brands have what kind of reputation and their original prices. This is the most I've ever boughten because I normally can't find anything I want and yesterday I found a ton!
Yesterday, I went to Crossroads Trading Company in U-district and found some amazing deals! For $116 I bought: shorts, jeans, 2 thick cardigans, button-up, and a trench coat! The brands I found were: LA Made, American Apparel, Madewell, and Knot Sisters. While, other than American Apparel, I have absolutely no idea which brands have what kind of reputation and their original prices. This is the most I've ever boughten because I normally can't find anything I want and yesterday I found a ton!
In addition to what I already own, I am pretty much done with fall shopping with the exception of some leggings, a coat, gloves, and some boots. I do have to say my finds aren't the type of clothes you'd expect to find at a typical thrift store which is the benefit of trendy consignment shops! Where do you all like to go shopping?