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Liverpool Echo
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Jamie Greer

'I went from hating my bar job to owning a thriving vintage clothes business'

The owner of a vintage sportswear business has said he was “in the mud” before he began selling clothes online.

Ashweyn Skoyles, 22 from Nottingham, owns Sweatstash, a shop selling vintage sportswear. It has a stall in the Baltic Triangle’s Red Brick Market, as well as a site in Leeds and on Depop.

For Ash, the journey to this point has been far from straight forward. He bought his first vintage item in 2017, but it wasn’t a career he considered pursuing until times got tough for him while studying at Leeds Beckett University.

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