Alden you are my only source of this kind of info. Everyone is talking about food but few about clothing!! I’m proud to support your work and always interested to read what you write. Your style is informative without being preachy. Please keep doing what you do!
hi, I clicked on the link to the Guardian article "How secondhand shopping turned sour." The Guardian has become a strange media outlet since about 2016. I find many of their articles mean, biased, and often outright false, and consequently I try not to read it. But I clicked on to this one, and once again, I am dubious.
Second hand clothes is the most sustainable option. Since 2018 , have spent probably three thousand dollars a year , some years more like five thousand, on Ebay, Mercari, Real Real and True Facet. I have bought many of our childrens clothes on ebay. I have bought expensive jewelry on RealReal. I have bought designer clothes on both Ebay and Mercari. I have never had a bad experience, at least never worse than usual on line shopping, It doesnt fit! The only complaint I have is that clothes sometimes smell of Tide detergent which I hate.
Why does the article not reference the millions of satisfied Ebay or RealReal customers? Is second hand shopping really that different in the UK?
Is the Guardian in the pay of Big Fashion? ( I often suspect they get money from Big Pharma and other corporate interest groups).
Alden you are my only source of this kind of info. Everyone is talking about food but few about clothing!! I’m proud to support your work and always interested to read what you write. Your style is informative without being preachy. Please keep doing what you do!
Thank you for highlighting the real cost to the environment, traditional cultures, and animals. Behind that “cheap” price tag is real suffering.
Great article and reading list. So glad I subscribed to get your informative but also entertaining work. Thank you!
hi, I clicked on the link to the Guardian article "How secondhand shopping turned sour." The Guardian has become a strange media outlet since about 2016. I find many of their articles mean, biased, and often outright false, and consequently I try not to read it. But I clicked on to this one, and once again, I am dubious.
Second hand clothes is the most sustainable option. Since 2018 , have spent probably three thousand dollars a year , some years more like five thousand, on Ebay, Mercari, Real Real and True Facet. I have bought many of our childrens clothes on ebay. I have bought expensive jewelry on RealReal. I have bought designer clothes on both Ebay and Mercari. I have never had a bad experience, at least never worse than usual on line shopping, It doesnt fit! The only complaint I have is that clothes sometimes smell of Tide detergent which I hate.
Why does the article not reference the millions of satisfied Ebay or RealReal customers? Is second hand shopping really that different in the UK?
Is the Guardian in the pay of Big Fashion? ( I often suspect they get money from Big Pharma and other corporate interest groups).