copious

Ooh:  It's not a thrift store, but new online marketplace Copious.com sounds like it might just be what the doctor shoptor ordered:  

via Ecouterre: 

"Like other online marketplaces, Copious lets you purchase and sell clothing, shoes, and accessories but with a social media twist. Since the website connects with Facebook (in fact, two FBers are on the board of advisors), buyers can “follow” sellers they like, discover new trends and see exactly who their items belonged to before." (Ecouterre)

Word?  Because I've been burned more than once on ye 'ole E-bay by mysterious sellers who were there just long enough to collect my money, and then fade into the ether (thank you, buyers' insurance for bringing my funds back to me, but still...).

AND Copious.com is making it easy to sell from facebook and twitter?!
I'm intrigued.  I'll be perusing, and updating soon.  But please, do let me know if you get there before me!!

thrifting for madame noire

I was thrilled recently to go thrifting for Madame Noire!  Check out some of the results:

Special thanks to the good folks at Goodwill Ny Nj, to Emme Bonilla for her super-stylist eye, and to Ellis Peters for the photography! Love!

 

See the whole slideshow HERE.

thrift love: AuH2O thriftique

84 East 7th Street / New York, NY 10003 / Daily, 11am - 7pm / 212.466.0844

make do and mend (ww II video)

via ECOUTERRE:

Love, love, LOVE the baby cot!!

cipriana thrifting beads wood & leather on ubb

Covering a lovely combination of some of my obsessions (natural hair, style and thrifting) Urban Bush Babes is a blog after my own heart.  Check out Cipriana's chock-full-of-gorgeous-thrifted-finds style post:

photo: urbanbushbabes

photo: urbanbushbabes

the sheer gray/blue beaded top:  beacon's thrift & vintage 12.95USD

the leather belt: no relations thrift & vintage 10.00USD

photo: urbanbushbabes

the marble panel bag: reminiscence vintage in ny   9.95 USD

photo: urbanbushbabes

 I love it all!  See more photos and read the story behind the outfit here.

inspiration celia (the outburst dress)

There are beautiful dresses, and then there are beautiful dresses that cause wo/men to have verbal outbursts, like this one. The man on 125th St kept repeating himself, yelling for everyone to hear, "I saw it from across the street! That's a BEAUtiful dress! From across the street I SAW it! That's a BEAUTIFUL DRESS!...", until Celia, the beauty in the dress, realized she was who he was talking to, and thanked him. Where did she get this beautiful dress?  "Some thrift store in Ohio."  Love.  It.

photo: yld

photo: yld

photo: yld

inspiration honeychild

Now, this is a lesson in thrifting.  Chapters Head - Toe.  Class is in session:

the jacket:  $8 domsey's (brooklyn)

the glass beaded earrings:  $0.99 cent shop, williamsburg (brooklyn)

 

the cashmere sweater:  $3 salvation army, the bronx

the belt:  $9 h&m men's dept.

the skirt:  $12 beacon's closet,  park slope (brooklyn)

the jasper beaded meditation bracelet:  $7 a gift shop in chinatown

the enamel chain necklace: $6.99 h&m men's dept.

the basket: $10 chelsea market

the ann taylor boots: $9.99 domsey's (brooklyn)

the inspiration: honeychild