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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sandra Haurant

How to buy secondhand clothes you’ll love online

Illustration: Jamie Wignall
Illustration: Jamie Wignall Illustration: Jamie Wignall/The Guardian

Use filters

Be specific in searches. “If you enter ‘green dress’ into the search box on eBay, it will bring back thousands of results, so use the filter,” says Becky Barnes, a sustainable stylist from Bristol, who has been buying exclusively pre-owned clothes since 2017. “You can usually select brand, fabric, length, size – the filtering is more sophisticated than on Vinted.” There are brand new items for sale, too – if you only want pre-owned clothes, select “used”.

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