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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
This $500 Giveaway Supports Brooklyn’s Best Vintage Shops
Of all the many vintage stores in Brooklyn, five stand out as the darlings of the scene: Antoinette, Awoke, Collections, Dusty Rose, and Horizons. And to know them is to shop them. For many fashion-obsessed New Yorkers, vintage pieces from these five local businesses make up a hefty portion of their wardrobes — mine included. In fact, I still remember exactly who introduced me to Dusty Rose during the first summer I lived in the city. In the three years since, I’ve been back more times than I can count.
Now, in order to protect themselves and their businesses during these uncertain and unstable times, the owners of all five shops are banding together to drum up sales and support for each other in the best way they know how: With a giveaway.
Starting today and running until Saturday, each of the five stores are offering up the chance to win a $100 gift card, with a total of $500 on the line. The gift cards, which will never expire, can be used either on Instagram or in real life (upon re-opening, that is) and will be chosen on April 25th at 8 pm EST.
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To enter, the rules are simple. Like many giveaways, this one involves liking each of the store’s individual posts and tagging three friends in the comment section of all five. In addition, participants must follow all of the stores involved to be considered. Once you’ve entered each of the five giveaways, you’re good to go. Come Saturday, you could very well have a shopping spree to partake in.
Anyone who’s been following the current financial crisis knows by now that what the government is doing “to help” small businesses isn’t helping, at least not enough. There was roughly $349 billion set aside to help small businesses prevent layoffs and maintain their employees in a fund called the Paycheck Protection Program. According to CNBC, $243.4 million of that has already been allocated to large, publicly traded companies like DMC Global, Wave Life Sciences, and Fiesta Restaurant Group, all three of which have market values greater than $100 million. Now, $349 billion later, the entire fund has been used up.
The government is unlikely to come up with a solution that will save small businesses like Antoinette, Awoke, Collections, Dusty Rose, and Horizons anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean that fans of the stores can’t help support them in the meantime. Sign up for the New York Shops Together giveaway today, and win or lose, check out what’s up for grabs at each of the five participating stores. Who knows? Maybe the in-quarantine item you didn’t know you needed is only a click away.
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22 Secondhand Finds To Shop In Honor Of Earth Day
22 Secondhand Finds To Shop In Honor Of Earth Day
For a lot of shoppers, convenience is of the utmost importance, sometimes at the expense of the environment — which is likely why fast fashion is such a successful model, despite its environmental impact. Online secondhand shopping provides the best of both worlds: sustainability, and convenience. Now that vintage and pre-loved pieces no longer reside only in Goodwills, flea markets, and stressful, overstuffed vintage shops, shoppers can finally find rare and exclusive secondhand fashion items without having to spend hours sorting and sifting. Instead, they can simply scroll, click, and purchase.
Still, many shoppers continue to opt for fast fashion over secondhand, probably in part because of the sheer number of options when shopping on sites like Vestiaire Collective, The RealReal, and Heroine. Even more daunting are auction and DIY platforms like eBay and Etsy. If you don’t know exactly what you want, things tend to get overwhelming.
So, in honor of Earth Day, we thought we’d use our well-trained eye for secondhand scouring to scrounge up some of the best pre-loved and vintage items on the World Wide Web right now. From ‘40s-era rockabilly button-downs and ’90s Helmut Lang tops to barely-worn Loewe flats and Philo-era Céline handbags — if you haven’t yet given circular fashion a try, this is the perfect place to help get you started.
Click on for 22 secondhand fashion items that are not only Earth-friendly, but will also fill your wardrobe with pieces that can’t be found anywhere else. And remember, to truly follow the circular fashion model, you too have to recycle your unwanted clothes and accessories for someone else to enjoy.
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