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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Violet Bramley

Wearing a secondhand outfit these days is something to brag about, not whisper

A young woman looking at dresses in a vintage clothing store.
Consumers on the whole want to shop more thoughtfully. Photograph: Nick David/Getty Images

The secondhand clothes movement is here to stay. The stigma is, by and large, gone. Where it once came with some degree of shame attached, culture has, thankfully, shifted and confiding that your outfit is preloved is now more of a not-so-humble brag than something to whisper.

It can’t hurt that the new editor of Vogue is no stranger to a secondhand stall, and treated vintage clothes with as much respect as new luxury styles in her debut issue.

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