Thriftstyle : the ultimate bargain shopper's guide to smart fashion / Allison Engel, Reise Moore and Margaret Engel ; photographs by Roger Snider.

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Title:

Author:

Engel, Allison,

Additional Author(s):

Moore, Reise,

Engel, Margaret,

ISBN:

9781623545024

1623545021

Publication Info:

Watertown, MA :

Description:

211 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

"A must-have guide for bargain-hunting fashionistas looking to make a statement without sabotaging their budgets. In this photo-filled, easy-to-use resource, shoppers will learn to navigate the racks of their local consignment shop, spot name brands like Versace, Dior, and Burberry, select the best quality items, and repair secondhand clothes that need some love"--

General Note:

"A Bunker Hill Studio Book."

Subject(s):

Shopping.

Consignment sale shops.

Fashion.

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Summary

With this easy-to-use resource, savvy shoppers can cultivate upscale, upcycled wardrobes at thrift and consignment store prices.

Shoppers will learn to navigate the racks of their local consignment shop, spot name brands like Versace, Dior, and Burberry, select the best quality items, and repair secondhand clothes that need some love. Photo-filled chapters on thrifted handbags, jewelry, scarves, and other accessories show what's available and give tips for distinguishing quality items from fakes. Interviews with expert tailors, dry cleaners, shoe repair wizards, and fabric-dyeing professionals explain what makes a damaged piece of clothing worth renovating. Before-and-after photos show what can be done to refashion less-than-perfect finds.

Author Notes

Allison Engel has written articles for Esquire , The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , and other publications. She holds a bachelor's degrees in textiles/clothing and journalism, helps run the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and regularly writes about LA's textile district and costume designers. She co-authored Food Finds- America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them (William Morrow Cookbooks) with her sister, Margaret Engel.

Television producer Maricia "Reise" Moore is a thrift-store fanatic. What started out five years ago as a begrudging trip to a thrift store swiftly became a passion for quality, beautiful, and unique clothes at rock-bottom prices. She lives in Los Angeles.

Margaret Engel lives in Washington, D.C., where she runs the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and helped create the Newseum, a news museum in Washington, D.C. She is the former Washington columnist for Glamour and was a reporter for The Washington Post . She co-authored Food Finds- America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them with her sister, Allison (William Morrow Cookbooks) and co-wrote three Fodor's guidebooks.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

This comprehensive guide is written in a friendly, approachable way, as if your cool aunts took you along to their favorite Salvation Army shop. It's much more than a thrift store junket, though. All three authors are seasoned thrifters and have years of writing and TV experience (twins Allison and Margaret Engel collaborated on plays and the Food Network's Food Finds; TV producer Reise Moore has worked with A&E's Biography and for Animal Planet). Here they canvas 165 stores around the country and then stage a "fashion shoot" using real people in all-thrifted ensembles (Roger Snider's photos are charming and plentiful). The book also features trips to the tailors, dry cleaners, reweavers, and sewists who help whip the bargain finds into shape-a nice touch to see the people behind the scenes. Throughout, the authors convey the joy of discovering designer pieces for pennies, and the chapters on defining your own style and developing your eye to find those hidden treasures among the racks are informative. An extensive resources list includes many online and app options, from finding a store to learning to sew to stain removal. Lightly laid atop the shopping advice is an admonition against fast fashion and waste. VERDICT Slip this into your valise the next time you visit -thriftlandia.-Liz French, Library Journal (LF) © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Excerpts

Introduction Thrifting hits all the right buttons. It's good for the wallet, good for the planet and good for your creative side. --Allison Engel If loving thrifting is wrong, I don't want to be right. --Reise Moore As the sign says at the Stuff Etc consignment stores, "Wear it like you paid full price." --Margaret Engel Every last item you see modeled in this book is thrifted: clothes, shoes, jewelry, and accessories. Most items were purchased in 2016, a few days before our photo shoots. If we were lucky, we scored an extra-special bargain at the $2 and $3 clothing sales at Salvation Army and Goodwill. In the course of this project, we visited more than 165 thrift stores in multiple states. For cool points, we would like to say we are battle worn after making our way through all these stores. But the truth is, it was an absolute pleasure. It was a thrill to hunt for the ideal pair of pumps for the green sequined dress we found for $2, or the right pair of men's trousers to match the bold boots we bought for $8. As we shopped, digital pictures would fly among the authors via text message showing off a great find, soliciting a yea or nay on a so-so candidate or getting confirmation that one of us was right to walk away from a questionable choice. Thrifting is something anyone can learn to do successfully. It does not require a special eye or take endless amounts of time. When we started this journey, the goal was to create the definitive guide to thrift shopping. Now we realize a journey into thrifting is about so much more. On the macro level, it is a multibillion-dollar nonprofit-based industry that accepts donations from everyday people, sells them on to consumers eager to save money on clothes, and uses the proceeds to fund missions that change lives for the better. On a global level, it also is about recycling, renewing, and keeping textile waste out of landfills. At the micro level, it is an activity in which we can discover our personal style while we support small, often family-owned businesses--the local cobbler, dry cleaner, tailor, reweave. And it's about learning to master our clothes: how to repair them, clean them, wear them. All this happens while we become savvy shoppers, clued in to what makes up quality clothing and how to improve garments with creativity and imagination. We hope there are several images and suggestions inside that will inspire you to visit your local thrift store--whether it is located across town or can be found by clicking on your phone--and invest in looking good while doing good. All images are by photographer Roger Snider (rogersnider.com), except as noted. Excerpted from ThriftStyle: The Ultimate Bargain Shopper's Guide to Smart Fashion by Allison Engel, Reise Moore, Margaret Engel All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.