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…
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tailoring
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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…
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,…
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…
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,…