“There are certain shirts that do better and certain shirts that do better here.
When it comes to selecting pieces, Garrity says it will vary depending on location and the general tastes of the customers. “We’ll buy it and cut out the middleman, so they can just either straight sell it to us or trade for you know, a shirt, they’ve been looking for, or any type of deal.” But after that…we do a lot of wholesaling.” In simplest terms, when clothing gets sold at wholesale price, a large quantity of the product is sold at a lower price than at retail. “Because I’m assuming it’s going to be hectic and a lot of people are going to be coming and going, in and out, I’ll probably hold off on buying for just this weekend.
Singlestitch La Crosse is also a buy-sell-trade location, however, the store will not be doing so this opening weekend. We were struggling to find a storefront for a while and then we found one by Dale’s, and he actually owns it, so it worked out,” said Garrity.Īccording to Garrity, there will be over 1,000 unique vintage clothing pieces available for purchase this weekend, all of which are brand new. “We decided to move to Madison with the plan of moving back here eventually, and it finally came to fruition. Garrity worked in partnership with Mitch Hammes at La Crosse Vintage until they both moved to Madison where Hammes now runs Singlestitch’s sister store. We’re super excited to get back on the road here and open up to get people fitted for the rest of the year and years to come.” “The people of La Crosse show out for us, which is awesome. South, this Saturday, February 4 at noon. They will be opening at their new location, 123 4th St. After quitting school to pursue his career in vintage clothing full-time, he is now the owner and operator of Singlestitch La Crosse, formerly known as La Crosse Vintage. But I seriously started doing it in 2020.”Īnother local vintage curator with similar roots in the industry is Danny Garrity. “I’ve always been interested in vintage, I’ve been doing that since forever. Originally from La Crescent, MN, Schmitz has been holding pop-up events at various locations in Rochester and La Crosse since 2020, but his love for vintage clothing has been a growing hobby since high school. “Back in 2016, you could pretty much go to a thrift store and find anything you wanted to,” said Sam Schmitz, owner of secondhand vintage clothing pop-up shop, Minnesota Thrifter, “but now, you can’t expect to just walk into a Goodwill and be able to find vintage.” Instagram. had annual revenues of approximately $17.5 billion in 2022 alone. Nowadays, it is quite the opposite so much so that the United States Census Bureau estimated that the resale industry in the U.S. Buying thrifted and secondhand clothing has not always had the social currency that it does today. According to an article by the University of California-Berkeley, purchasing clothing from places like Goodwill or Salvation Army was highly stigmatized, and people who shopped there were often categorized as poor, dirty, and less than.
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