Buying secondhand clothes in France was once done by those who couldn't afford to shop on the high street. These days used clothes have made a seamless transition from thrifty to trendy as online platforms such as Vinted – now the country's top clothing website – upend taboos. This shift in attitude, however, has come at a cost to the country's traditional, solidarity-based charity shops.
“Today, second hand is a new fashion,” says Eva Cerio, a teacher at the IAE Angers business school who researches secondhand practices in France.
