ThriftStyle: The Ultimate Bargain Shopper's Guide to Smart Fashion

Engel, Allison; Moore, Reise; Engel, Margaret

ISBN 10 : 1623545021 ISBN 13 : 9781623545024

Editeur : Imagine, 2017

Synopsis

A must-have guide for bargain-hunting fashionistas looking to make a statement without sabotaging their budgets.

With this easy-to-use resource, savvy shoppers can cultivate upscale, upcycled wardrobes at thrift and consignment store prices.

Shoppers will learn to navigate the racks of their local consignment shop, spot name brands like Versace, Dior, and Burberry, select the best quality items, and repair secondhand clothes that need some love. Photo-filled chapters on thrifted handbags, jewelry, scarves, and other accessories show what's available and give tips for distinguishing quality items from fakes. Interviews with expert tailors, dry cleaners, shoe repair wizards, and fabric-dyeing professionals explain what makes a damaged piece of clothing worth renovating. Before-and-after photos show what can be done to refashion less-than-perfect finds.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Allison Engel has written articles for Esquire, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and others. She helps run the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities and regularly writes about LA's fashion scene. She co-authored Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them with her sister, Margaret.

Television producer Maricia "Reise" Moore is a thrift-store fanatic. She lives in Los Angeles.

Margaret Engel lives in Washington, D.C., where she runs the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and helped create the Newseum. She was a columnist for Glamour and a reporter for The Washington Post. She co-authored Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them with her sister, Allison, and co-wrote three Fodor's guidebooks.

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Introduction
 
Thrifting hits all the right buttons. It’s good for the wallet, good for the planet and good for your creative side.
                —Allison Engel
 
If loving thrifting is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
                —Reise Moore
 
As the sign says at the Stuff Etc consignment stores, “Wear it like you paid full price.”
                —Margaret Engel
 

Every last item you see modeled in this book is thrifted: clothes, shoes, jewelry, and accessories. Most items were purchased in 2016, a few days before our photo shoots. If we were lucky, we scored an extra-special bargain at the $2 and $3 clothing sales at Salvation Army and Goodwill.

In the course of this project, we visited more than 165 thrift stores in multiple states. For cool points, we would like to say we are battle worn after making our way through all these stores. But the truth is, it was an absolute pleasure. It was a thrill to hunt for the ideal pair of pumps for the green sequined dress we found for $2, or the right pair of men’s trousers to match the bold boots we bought for $8.

As we shopped, digital pictures would fly among the authors via text message showing off a great find, soliciting a yea or nay on a so-so candidate or getting confirmation that one of us was right to walk away from a questionable choice. Thrifting is something anyone can learn to do successfully. It does not require a special eye or take endless amounts of time.

When we started this journey, the goal was to create the definitive guide to thrift shopping. Now we realize a journey into thrifting is about so much more. On the macro level, it is a multibillion-dollar nonprofit-based industry that accepts donations from everyday people, sells them on to consumers eager to save money on clothes, and uses the proceeds to fund missions that change lives for the better. On a global level, it also is about recycling, renewing, and keeping textile waste out of landfills. At the micro level, it is an activity in which we can discover our personal style while we support small, often family-owned businesses—the local cobbler, dry cleaner, tailor, reweave. And it’s about learning to master our clothes: how to repair them, clean them, wear them. All this happens while we become savvy shoppers, clued in to what makes up quality clothing and how to improve garments with creativity and imagination.

We hope there are several images and suggestions inside that will inspire you to visit your local thrift store—whether it is located across town or can be found by clicking on your phone—and invest in looking good while doing good.
All images are by photographer Roger Snider (rogersnider.com), except as noted.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Imagine
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1623545021
• ISBN 13: 9781623545024
• Reliure: Carton flexible
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible