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Growing Sustainability Concerns Favor Resale Over FastFashion. It appears that much of that growth will come at the expense of fastfashion. consumers in the next 10 years, fastfashion’s portion will remain roughly flat. Fastfashion and thrift are very similar in a lot of ways,” said Clark.
We currently live in an era marked by economic uncertainty, environmental consciousness, and a desire for uniqueness, Australians are increasingly embracing second-hand shopping. The hunt for the thrill of it One of the driving appeals of second-hand shopping lies in the exhilaration of the search, the dopamine release gained in the hunt.
Image courtesy Urban Outfitters The platform’s aim is to help Gen Z find unique used items “as thriftshops become flooded with fastfashion ecommerce brands,” according to a company statement.
What were previously unwanted and undesirable items dumped at a thriftstore have become valued as pre-loved items, full of potential for their next owner. When I owned vintage stores, customers shopped the pre-loved fashion sections either for the stylistic preference of vintage or for the savings.
The resale market is growing 11 times faster than traditional retail and is expected to reach $84 billion by 2030, far eclipsing the predicted $40 billion market for fastfashion. . Consider that 223 million consumers say they have or are open to shopping secondhand products.
An old TopShop store in north London’s Brent Cross shopping centre has been revived after two years of sitting empty since the fastfashion brand closed down. It’s now a vibrant pop-up department store selling pre-loved clothing organised collaboratively by 10 charities.
But, after 10 or 15 years, we can be inspired by Marie Kondo to reorganise our lives and that custom-made item gets sent to the thriftstore – because in our minds it’s too good to throw away. This raises another question: with the resale market booming, is hyper-consumerism associated with fastfashion shifting to preloved fashion?
As sustainability continues to grow in popularity, the new buzz around the block is that ‘buying local’ and ‘shopping small’ is better for the planet — but is this really true? Second Hand Shopping Gaining Popularity. Thirty years ago, it belonged exclusively in the domain of thriftstores and consignment shops.
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A generation that sees shopping as binary: “I want brand X, therefore I need to shop at store Y”. A generation that loves to shop online because it’s fun and convenient – and also because they are juggling work-life (im)balance, kids and life in the ’burbs. Obsessed with showcaser signalling and blinded by status.
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With more than half of all consumers shopping for secondhand apparel last year, it’s evident that resale is now firmly embedded in the fashion landscape ,” said Neil Saunders, Managing Director at GlobalData , which conducted the research for the report, in a statement. In the U.S.
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