Some of what you can expect at the Re/Dress trunk show tomorrow.
Re/Dress is a Brooklyn plus-size vintage and contemporary second-hand store we’ve been meaning to write about for a while, and here it is in a nice little NYC fashion roundup in the Times’ excellent frugal travel blog this week, so thanks, Matt Gross.
If you’re one of those people who thinks vintage dressing is strictly a skinny girls’ game, you probably haven’t seen this Boerum Hill shop, where the Times found “clothes by everyone from Target to Marina Rinaldi, with prices generally hovering between $20 and $80.” Some is vintage, some is Lane Bryant resale and the like, but none of it is smaller than a size 14 (but beware that’s about a size 10 by 1950s standards.) Read the rest of this entry »
Shoes, $3 to $20, at The Swap Shop.
If you’re a parent you may notice that your inbox is especially quiet today: that’s because Yahoo Groups is having a maintenance blackout this afternoon, so no Park Slope Parents, Brooklyn Parents, etc., at least for a few hours. So we decided to step into the void with a breeder-centric item (sorry, FiPS) on places where you can resell gently used maternity and/or kids’ clothes and gear. Read the rest of this entry »
