>80% of the clothes I wear are second hand, bought on eBay, Grailed and Americana Pipedream. eBay has everything you could want, and much better seller/buyer protections than Grailed. Grailed is tolerable for me since the owners sold out hard and made questionable changes, yet I still browse the feed almost every other day and regularly find great deals on vintage CDG and Margiela, as well as workwear. Americana Pipedream has to be my favorite place to shop right now. Local to me, owned by cool people with a massive following on social media, selling cool vintage military surplus stuff. Click that link and get you some!
Jan 30, 2025
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Americana Pipedream and Luxeswap are great, but it's better to figure out searches for yourself, you'll find a wider variety of cheaper stuff.
I gave some tips here you might find helpful: https://thesecondbutton.com/warm-weather-wardrobe/
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my top sites for secondhand shopping!!! i am truly obsessed with them, it is like hunting for treasure. i also like browsing depop, etsy, and vestiare, though i only have a handful of items from those in my wardrobe. i hear good things about vinted and medium things about grailed but i havent spent any time w those. i dont really use poshmark but it is massive. also check out the app called gem, it will check all these sites and more to find any keywords that you enter and email you a list of new items matching your query!
Feb 14, 2024
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An aggregate search for vintage clothes. Pulls from Ebay, Etsy, Real Real, Poshmark, Grailed, possibly others, but i see those the most frequently. All through one search, one website (there's an app as well). The filters work well and you can set alerts. It's amazing.
Mar 25, 2024
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Is usually pretty good
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