Street Style
What Men Re-Wear: Workwear and Tailoring Off the Rack
Men buying secondhand tend to fall into two camps: workwear and tailoring. Which pieces tend to survive a year of real wear,…
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Outfits
Office Outfits From Secondhand Tailoring, Priced Out
Secondhand tailoring is a cheap, credible route to an office wardrobe that looks expensive. What to buy, roughly what alterations cost, and…
Street Style
London Layering: Secondhand Tailoring Outside the Markets
Outside the weekend markets in Hackney and Bermondsey, the best-dressed people are wearing men's wool jackets over soft dresses, and almost nothing…
Vintage & Designer
Vintage tailoring: judging a jacket and its alterations
Shoulder fit decides whether a jacket is worth buying and canvas construction decides whether it is worth altering. Here is the pinch…
Thrift Finds
Estate Sales: Reading the Listing and What to Bring
An estate sale listing tells you more than its photos do, once you know the four details to look for. Plus the…
Secondhand 101
Size labels across the decades, decoded
Vintage size labels were drafted for different measurements than today's. How sizing drifted, what the numbers on an old label never meant,…
Weddings
Secondhand suits for grooms and groomsmen
A good secondhand wool suit usually costs a fraction of a new one, and the two measurements a tailor cannot change decide…
Outfits
A 12-Piece Thrifted Capsule for Seven Outfits
Twelve secondhand pieces, seven outfits and an estimated cost for each. By my rough math the capsule comes to about $337, so…
Thrift Finds
Planning a Toronto Thrift Circuit: Six Stops, Six Roles
How to plan a one-day thrift circuit in Toronto: six kinds of store, what each one is good for, typical prices as…
Trends
After Quiet Luxury: What Took Over Secondhand
The logo-free beige knit is everywhere on resale racks, while embellishment, color and anything with a visible history stands out. Here's how…
Celebrity Style
Vintage on the Red Carpet, and What Archive Fetches
A red-carpet archive look is usually a loan, not a purchase, and the resale market trades the same kinds of pieces. How…
Secondhand 101
Cleaning a secondhand buy before the first wear
Most secondhand purchases need airing and a wash, not a dry cleaner. Here is what each fiber actually needs, what a domestic…
Celebrity Style
The Stylists Behind Celebrity Closets, and What to Copy
Red-carpet and press-tour dressing leans on a network of vintage dealers and archive houses. How that pipeline tends to source, and which…
Under $50
Fifteen secondhand buys under $50 that look pricier
Fifteen garments and accessories that sell for under $50 used and read as three times the price on the body. What each…
Vintage & Designer
The Modern Heirloom, Found Secondhand
This autumn's trend lists want you to buy future heirlooms new, at four figures. The charity shop has been selling the past…
Thrift Finds
Six Thrift Finds Worth Buying and What They Typically Cost
Six secondhand pieces that keep turning up at estate sales and thrift stores, what each typically goes for in October 2026, and…
Trends
Barrel and Slouchy Denim, Bought Secondhand for Less
The barrel leg is the first denim shape in years that really changes what fits. It's also an easy place in secondhand…
Weddings
Renting a bridal outfit versus buying and reselling
Renting costs less on the day and returns nothing. Buying costs more up front and returns part of the cost when you…
Vintage & Designer
Vintage labels by decade, and what each is worth now
From Norell to Margiela, the names that reliably lift a garment above its fabric value, which decade each belongs to, and the…
Repair & Care
Fixing zippers, buttons and hooks at home
Most broken zippers have a worn slider, not a broken zipper, and a slider costs a few dollars where a full replacement…
Travel
Laundry while traveling, and the fabrics that survive it
Hand washing works for wool, silk and synthetics and fails for cotton and denim. Knowing in advance which of your clothes dry…
Outfits
All-Secondhand Travel Outfits and a One-Bag List
Airlines don't care what your coat cost. Every layer here can be found secondhand, and the whole trip runs on the same…
Secondhand 101
How to shop a thrift store in one visit
A forty-minute route through a thrift store beats two hours of wandering. Take three numbers, sweep the rack by touch rather than…
Repair & Care
Washing wool, cashmere and silk at home
Cool water, around 86°F, a pH-neutral detergent, no wringing and a flat dry. Wool felts when heat, water and movement combine, and…
Secondhand 101
How secondhand prices actually get set
Nothing secondhand is priced from cost, so the same shirt can be $4 on one rack and $40 on the next. Here…
Outfits
All-Vintage Party Outfits, with Sizing Notes
Evening wear may be where vintage beats new most often, if you can read a size label from before modern sizing. Five…