Thrifting: Eco-friendly designer fashion for cheap

THRIFTING is the new fashion trend taking the youth by storm.

While clothing thrift shops have been around for as long as clothes have, today’s trendy youth have taken to buying and reselling designer clothes at a fraction of their original cost.

Many Instagram pages have recently sprouted up, dedicated entirely to this thrifting idea, which is the ideal market to advertise to the youth.

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Young people want branded clothing but, owing to them still being at school or in tertiary education, they do not earn an income with which to buy expensive clothing.

Their parents are understandably not keen to shell out thousands of rands on clothing that is marked up only because of the name it carries.

This is where thrifting comes in. Youngsters buy a few items of designer clothing and then swap them or re-sell them after a while so they can afford to buy other second-hand designer clothes.

Some people have gone as far as buying clothing hauls from other countries, like the USA.

This entails buying second-hand designer clothes in bulk at a low cost and re-selling them in South Africa.

Thrifting is considered eco-friendly as no clothing is being thrown out, and far less new clothing is being purchased, which ultimately reduces consumption and wastage.

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