Thrift shopping: Making fashion more sustainable

it's one of the hottest trends in fashion without a second to spare here's serena altschul

i think i got this for like 40 bucks aalia al barwani loves fashion

but hardly ever pays full price what portion of your wardrobe would you say is

second hand about 60 to 70 percent of my my closet is is second hand you can find things that maybe

somebody bought at full price and they never wore it and you get to have it for a quarter of the

price and as someone who loves fashion there's no better feeling al barwani a houston based doctor

is one of many hanging up old shopping habits got this trench coat that i love that i also thrifted

second-hand shopping is one of fashion's fastest growing trends how big is the second-hand clothing

market it's a 35 billion dollar market and growing billion billion it's really really been catching

fire lately chris homer is co-founder and chief operating officer of thredup it's one of dozens

of web-based consignment shops allowing consumers to buy and sell unwanted clothing

we're listing items every minute of every day all day long 100 000 plus items a day

instead of digging through racks of clothes consumers can browse right on their phones

the clothes on the other hand are held at thredup distribution sites around the country

where they're inspected photographed and eventually shipped to new owners did things

pick up even more during the pandemic yes all of a sudden having time to clean out at home

as well as wanting to change things out for things that are more casual and comfortable i think that

was one element another is the generational shift where gen z and millennials are really becoming

native thrifters in how they consume the importance of the environmental impact that

people are having really has become even more in the forefront of people's minds

right now the fashion industry is probably the third most polluting industry it emits about five

to maybe 10 percent of the world's carbon allison summer is vice president of public affairs and

business development at therealreal an online and brick and mortar high-end consignment shop

so if you had a magic wand and you could change something in the fashion industry today what's the

first thing you would do produce less produce less we have too many clothes in fact about 85 percent

of clothing in the u.s including donations ends up in incinerators or landfills mostly overseas

95 percent of the items that hit a landfill could be reworn in their current form so it's really

just a problem of not necessarily knowing what else to do with an item that you're not using

anymore summer says she hopes this inspires consumers to rethink their own shopping style

see you later in a way you guys broke the hardest part of the cycle which is the stigma

of clothes being bought a second it's cool to wear secondhand now you're finding a beautiful

item that you feel good in that you got a great deal on and that's helping the planet

look at you ready for a party and what's more fashion forward than that