Not Brand New but Still Good Old Items

About a month ago, I visited Value Village to find a vintage denim piece for my Trend Analysis and Product Development class. Before coming to Canada, I had no idea that I had to pay money for "old clothes". For me, if I had to wear "old clothes", they were either from my brother that were unisex enough that I could wear or clothes from my relatives. They were free ! It was no question for me that I go shopping, purchase new clothes, wear them and hand them down or donate them to someone in need until I went to Value Village and picked out two clothing pieces: a long-sleeve denim dress shirt and a knitted dress.

I went through each aisle and checked every single clothes in my size and picked out almost 15 clothing pieces that I thought I could wear. I narrowed them down to 4 and had a hard time choosing only 2 out of them. The reason why I chose 2 was because they were pretty expensive considering that they were not new. I did not want to spend close to $50 on 4 pieces of clothes. However, now I think about it, I want to go back and just buy them. It's for a good cause anyway.

The surprising thing that I learned from this visit was I can find good quality clothing from Value Village and still make them look good on me. It is okay to wear something that somebody else wore. One more thing that I value is that when I wear clothes from Value Village, I'm wearing people's stories and histories.

The most important thing that matters is not how much money you paid for your clothes but how can you pull them off and make them look great.