Headquarters: San Francisco, CaliforniaYear founded: 2009Why it's revolutionary: The trendiest new clothes are often old clothes these days, and ThredUP is making trendy old clothes more accessible to shoppers.
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Is there any other way when going through old clothes?
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Always check those pockets before you donate your old clothes.
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I give my old clothes to Goodwill every couple months.
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Keep your old clothes; they will be valuable as fuck.
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Noon — I go sell some old clothes at Buffalo Exchange.
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She said she slept on a bed of old clothes.
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All these years later, I, too, find myself repurposing old clothes.
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Crowned in a garland made from my and Keith's old clothes.
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The pain of not fitting into any of your old clothes.
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"The old ones don't work, like old clothes," Ms. Martín said.
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Old clothes from the West are ubiquitous in parts of Africa.
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A hundred people have donated their old clothes to the pile.
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I have heard countless stories of tiny Turkish donations: bread, old clothes, money.
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They cut their hair and burned their old clothes, toys, and religious items.
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Others sit on crates, on heaps of old clothes and on the floor.
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We started selling our old clothes on Poshmark and Depop a year ago.
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Rashid is "doing a good job," says Moses, a 32-year-old clothes seller.
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I bagged up a bunch of old clothes for our residence hall's donation drive.
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"Get your old clothes on," he'd say, sticking his head into the warm kitchen.
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I purged a ton of old clothes in the process and bought nothing new.
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He wore old clothes, chain-smoked Winstons and drove a beat-up Volkswagen bus.
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A handful of brands encourage customers to recycle old clothes by returning them to stores.
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I gave away old clothes that I was hoping I'd fit into again one day.
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They burst through, blood streaking their old clothes and greasy hair, and lurched towards me.
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Broil the feathers and stuff with sage-brush, old clothes, almost anything you can dig up.
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I was a growing girl and you had these old clothes that we wore for years.
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Hannah puts on some old clothes, fills her bathtub with water, and slits her wrists open.
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"It took me longer than I thought to get back into my old clothes," she noted.
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"I relied on a combination of savings, my severance packages and selling old clothes," he said.
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"It seems clear that somebody hacked this election," said Kennedy Mhando, a 2000-year-old clothes seller.
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She can't just sit around surrounded by old clothes and expect the stars to align for her.
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Sometimes, all you need is a new styling trick to give your old clothes a new personality.
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The Kardashians will soon begin selling their old clothes online, according to Instagram posts from Kris Jenner.
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Deteriorated clothes Goodwill H&M: Recycles your old clothes in exchange for a discount on new ones.
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Piles of old clothes, boxes, books, newspapers, empty food containers and heaps of trash blanketed the floor.
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My findings were very interesting as I found: old clothes, 22 Birthday Cards, and other hoarding materials.
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Dig out old clothes and try to pair them with other items that are a bit newer.
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The mother of two daughters herself, she recalled hearing them complain about not fitting into old clothes.
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"The only time I buy new clothes is when my old clothes get holes in them," he says.
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Businesses will convene "swap shops" where people can exchange old clothes and other miscellany they don't want anymore.
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On top of that, I always wore my sisters' old clothes that were way too big for me.
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The boy wore a new red shirt, and his father, wearing old clothes, lifted him in his arms.
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A campaign in Japan has figured out how to rejuvenate old clothes as one-of-a-kind pieces.
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Resale platforms offer shoppers a way to recycle their old clothes and buy new styles in environmentally friendly ways.
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There's a lightness that comes from getting rid of old clothes, but in the winter, that takes some convincing.
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In her portraits of the men who answered her ad, Sancari's subjects are dressed in her father's old clothes.
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"He had long hair, a dirty beard, wore old clothes and looked confused," bar owner Chris Westerbeek told RTV.
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The business model is ingenious; it incentivizes repeat business and it helps parents re-use or recycle old clothes.
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Some weathered tomes give off smoky perfumes of ash and incense; others emit whiffs of mustiness, like old clothes.
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At Savanna Rags, in Mansfield in the English Midlands, 1.53 tonnes of old clothes glide along conveyor belts each week.
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On Saturday, we left the Banana Republic presentation with a laundry list of new ways to wear our old clothes.
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Instead, he says all he got were Mel's old clothes, some crappy used towels and his step daughter Angel's clothes.
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When the object of their obsession are rooms full of old clothes or newspapers, it can be unhealthy—even dangerous.
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Then she does the same thing at home, her old clothes now contaminated because she wore them in her car.
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Soon, I gained 20 pounds—a common side effect of antipsychotic medications—and could no longer fit into my old clothes.
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In a yard outside strewn with trash, old clothes and broken furniture, a group of police carrying assault rifles stood guard.
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But with Tidying Up some people want these big, fast, returns on their old clothes but it rarely goes that way.
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Cimino found a tailor who helped him create pockets using some of his old clothes inside the lining of his coat.
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It's been transformed into a museum-like street of shops stocking her dolls, her antiques, her old clothes, all her collectibles.
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When you're cleaning out your closet, selling, donating or recycling the old clothes is better for the environment than tossing them.
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When he got out last week, Mendeecees did it in a grand fashion -- tossing his old clothes in a trash can.
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I think our first point of overt attack was on the theme of old clothes to Sam, the Negroes' hospital dilemma.
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If your old clothes need mending or don't fit well anymore, hire a good seamstress to make them look new again.
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An Ohio couple thought that they were simply giving away some old clothes to a Goodwill shop in Zanesville last week.
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Online resale sites like Thredup, Depop, Poshmark, and the RealReal have exploded in recent years, offering old clothes a new life.
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Watch as he magically transforms some old clothes, a child-sized life vest and some miscellaneous junk into a pretty legit costume.
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" But Oz also admits, "Some people do jump back, back in their old clothes in a minute and I am so jealous.
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Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), a mid-list actress who lives in Los Angeles, tries to squeeze into some old clothes she's outgrown.
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When you're cleaning out your closet, selling, donating or recycling the old clothes is better for the environment than just tossing them.
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All the food, old clothes, water and medicine given to the migrants have come from private citizens, church groups or sympathetic local officials.
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Like clockwork, people declutter their kitchen, donate old clothes, pot some plants, ditch their cuffing season partner, and — without fail — cut their hair.
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A complex supply chain begins with people like Elizabeth Forsythe, stuffing a bag of old clothes into a donation bin in north London.
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In fact, each season we seem to leave the J.Crew show with a laundry list of new ways to wear our old clothes.
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"You find most old clothes don't have elastic, I try and make my clothes as practical and long-lasting as possible," says Stansfield.
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"When I was 11, my grandfather passed, and we had all his old clothes," Zendaya told Allure for its December/January cover story.
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But the most successful entrepreneurs on Poshmark aren't just selling old clothes from their closets — they've turned side hustles into six-figure businesses.
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Threadflip attempted to set itself apart with a "white glove" service allowing customers to ship their old clothes and sell them on the site.
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There are unvarnished wood steps, brick walls lined with pink insulation, and boxes of old clothes that smell like a Camden Lock thrift store.
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In this episode of DIY Costume Squad, Dustin McLean transforms a pile of old clothes into a DIY costume worthy of everyone's favorite pirate.
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The idea is that ending the trade in old clothes—mostly donated by their former owners in rich countries—will help boost local manufacturing.
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My old clothes felt heavier as I put them back on, as if the meaning behind them had been transcribed into actual physical weight.
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If you're venturing near a celebration, you may consider wearing old clothes and rubbing coconut oil onto your skin to avoid absorbing the colors.
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Many charities that used to accept worn or outmoded clothing have become more picky, partly because the business of reselling old clothes overseas is waning.
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Before we leave, I put two trash bags' worth of old clothes in my mom's car for her to drop off at a donation bin.
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"Second Life Fashion" takes old clothes that have been damaged or torn, and combines them with other clothing parts to create a brand new piece.
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I want to sell some of my old clothes, so I download Poshmark and snap photos of old Tory Burch boots and a few Madewell items.
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I should toss out the old clothes, the dresses and pants in the back of my closet, the dark, lurking evidence of my skinnier, sadder self.
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They made do at first, the younger ones wearing the older girls' hand-me-downs, but it was difficult for them to wear Makayla's old clothes.
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You may snicker at first at the primitive special effects (or graphics), and sometimes the old clothes, hairstyles and acting may be hard to take seriously.
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The New Delhi–based Raqs Media Collective's "The Emperor's Old Clothes" resembles a refined, classical Greek or Roman statue, except it features no figure at all.
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Ms. Knavs now intends to donate those old clothes to a planned exhibit at the school dedicated to Melania Trump, the town's most famous brand name.
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And La Bomba may have been my favorite, if only for the cute little dog there that snoozes among the piles of old clothes and shoes.
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No one knows when he began making his signature, quilt-like creations, into which he sewed, in addition to shopping bags, old clothes, fabric scraps, and twine.
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"I'm talking about tin, steel, copper, and aluminum, and also old wood, carpet, rope, old clothes, sand, rocks, wire, screen, toys, tree limbs and roots," he added.
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Cosplayer Tali XO shows you how to make everyone's favorite mechanic, Cindy Aurum, from Final Fantasy XV using some old clothes, spray paint, and a little craftiness.
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Perhaps you donate money to the needy or ill, give away your old clothes, volunteer at your child's school or participate in holiday gift drives in December.
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Every 20 seconds or so, the room would fill up with more stuff—everything from old clothes to newspapers to camping supplies, like tents and sleeping bags.
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He was reunited with his wife, Samantha, and together they washed away the dank stench of the jungle before he slipped back into his clean, old clothes.
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The front windows of an antique store were broken and the rear wall was open to the elements, with some old clothes still hanging on racks inside.
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"Demand is less than it was since the new exchange system," said Mohamed Nour, a 70-year-old clothes shopkeeper on one of Asmara's main commercial streets.
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"Who cares about a lot of old clothes?" he said, which was kind of a disingenuous statement, given his career and how much he, for one, does.
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At one end there's pet fish and a secondhand market of old clothes, and live music (that may include a band of highly skilled drummers) is common.
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I'm currently trying to get rid of 100 things this month, so I want to go through some old clothes and decide if they "spark joy" or not.
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The preference of Crown Princess Victoria to have her daughter Estelle wear her old clothes is not for the first time, she had that preference numerous times before.
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The woman showed me inside, where she had a small gas stove, about twenty tiny and filthy tomatoes, and a pile of old clothes that she slept on.
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This means, among other things, that we want to create a closed loop for fashion where old clothes can be turned into new ones without using additional materials.
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Ahead, see how your old clothes have gotten a new life (and an athleisure revamp), courtesy of H&M, along with some eco-minded pieces from the Conscious Collection.
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"Blue Jay" is wistful and beautifully acted until the moment Amanda produces an unsent letter from Jim that she has discovered among the piles of old clothes and keepsakes.
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He decided he was going to send his old clothes to this guy in upstate New York to make two of those teddy bears, for me and my brother.
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When I'm getting rid of old clothes, I always sort through them first: If it's torn, or stained, or so worn-out that it's see-through, nobody wants it.
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This is another thing we see in disaster after disaster: people hurriedly send old clothes, canned food, and toys, and no one has any idea what happens to that stuff.
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Irving dons old clothes and heaps on tons of makeup to transform into Uncle Drew, an old geezer who breaks ankles and dunks on flummoxed pickup hoopers at the park.
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Dina Nayeri, a former refugee, says this is very important; at one camp she attended, people had to search through piles of old clothes that were dumped on the floor.
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I usually bring old clothes and shoes to wear and then donate at the end of my trip, which serves the dual purpose of lightening my load when I head home.
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"I realized I had all these things I didn't need," she tells CNBC Make It. Rather than tossing old clothes, kitchenware and tech gadgets, she decided to try to sell them.
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And: I did consign old clothes and allow myself to shop at consignment stores for free or very low-budget purchases, which was actually a fun way to let off steam.
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Tie-dye has been used in the United States since the early 603th century, writes Simon-Alexander, as a way for women to mimic French fabric styles or revivify old clothes.
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As the industry comes to grips with its own culpability in the climate crisis, the concept of upcycling — remaking old clothes or re-engineering used fabric — has begun to take hold.
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Luckily, a lot of our favorite brands are aware of the problem, and they are making efforts to help you recycle your old clothes and put a dent in this big issue.
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With a new sewing machine and a stack of old clothes nearby, Grant, 25, started crafting outfits for the new baby, Elliot, now 4 months, and her 2-year-old daughter, Amelia.
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That all changed when the oldest ran away and was found, visibly disheveled with long hair, a dirty beard, and old clothes, at a nearby bar, according to Dutch broadcaster RTV Drenthe.
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Evaluate what's actually necessary in your life, and get rid of all the junk that doesn't serve you, whether that means old clothes you never wear anymore or a mindset you've outgrown.
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Most are assembled from New York street finds — car parts, old clothes, animal carcasses, police barricades, wood from construction sites — to which Mr. Durham added "Indian" touches: beading, seashell inlay and feathers.
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Relish in the wise advice of tidying legend Marie Kondo as you sort through drawers, pack up old clothes, and give gratitude to all the stuff keeping you company while at home.
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The shock of seeing Galen in his old clothes, then in Imperial uniform less than a minute later, brought home the oppressive evil of the Empire as much as any Star Destroyer. Father?
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Our stories are eerily similar, our loved ones' symptoms almost identical: the bizarre behavior I had tried to ignore, the obsessive laundering of old clothes — our washing machine ran from morning till night.
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Resale sites have "effectively built small communities," pairing sellers looking to unload their old clothes for cash with buyers eager to score deals, Cowen analyst Oliver Chen said in a recent report to clients.
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Tradesy is like a dating site for your old clothes: You can post a photo, tell its story and the site will price your garment (a button invites online shoppers to "love" your listings).
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They could emerge during the day to engage in a limited number of occupations—including buying and selling old clothes, laboring on Hebrew books in print workshops, teaching music and dance, and practicing medicine.
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Leading up to the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom put on old clothes and their families cover them in a paste made from turmeric, chickpea flour and water, intended to beautify their skin.
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Whether you're selling your old clothes as a side hustle or vying to become the next big direct-to-consumer company, you'll need to know the nuts and bolts of e-commerce to be successful.
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Classic Cuban dishes include "ropa vieja" (literally, 'old clothes') or shredded meat and "moros y cristianos," a reference to the medieval battle between Islamic Moors and Christian Spaniards and used to designate rice and black beans.
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Two weeks later, Nathaniel Johnson, a 21-year-old janitor for the Detroit Public Library, and his friend Clarence Manning, 25, encountered STRESS officer Michael Worley disguised as a hippie in old clothes and a beard.
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There is almost nothing Dial did not use to make his freestanding or wall-mounted constructions, including scraps of old clothes, mattress coils, metal-can lids, plastic twine, wire, epoxy patching compound, enamel, and spray paint.
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The dog in this scenario is actually a garment (sorry to disappoint), but our question remains: When looking at a pile of old clothes, do you see the contents of a landfill, or potential for creativity?
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"Old clothes in general are so tied to the body, and female bodies in particular, that they have not been valorized as objects, like paintings, which were seen as examples of male genius," Ms. Steele said.
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When it comes to sleeping attire, everyone has a different style: Some of us wear old-clothes-turned-loungewear, others wear workout gear (sleeping is a sport!), and then there are those who put on actual pajamas.
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The facility opened around the collapse of the Islamic State in Syria, which caused such an influx of prisoners that many were given orange jumpsuits provided by the coalition to replace their old clothes, Mr. Polat said.
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In her tiny cottage with a pile of old clothes in the center of the living room, Ms. Perlow showed off a blue-and-white striped buttoned shirt that she embroidered with two gold butterflies across the chest.
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In the ultimate proof of his loyalty to his wife and to the cause, he chopped off Marilyn's hands and head, which Elizabeth wrapped in old clothes and packed (for later disposal in a nearby body of water).
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Posted by Princess Estelle of Sweden on Saturday, March 26, 2016 The preference of Crown Princess Victoria to have her daughter Estelle wear her old clothes is not for the first time, she had that preference numerous times before.
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Portillo told the Eagle that Sesmas was preparing to move to Dallas and had offered to give her old clothes and a TV. When Portillo arrived at Sesmas's house, she alleged, Sesmas began acting strange and then turned violent.
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Its creator, Andres Branco, made a Facebook group in 2013 so he and his friends could trade old clothes—but the page struck a chord, quickly picking up fans, to the point where it now has almost 70,000 members.
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"Back then, I just wanted to make really cool stuff to wear, I just tore old clothes apart and created patterns out of them," Cathari tells T. After her debut, she plans to fly back to Amsterdam and graduate.
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She spent a lot of time in nature, and though she had no particular interest in fashion at the time, she was fascinated by a collection of old clothes that one of her grandmothers had stowed away in an attic.
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But in March last year, the matter was alerted to the Office of the United States Trade Representative by the Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association, a U.S.-based group representing companies that gather and sell on the U.S.' old clothes.
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The non-slip interior seats are made of vegan leather by Dinamica, which creates the fake leather — made of recycled materials like old clothes, flags, and plastic bottles — with microfibers in an environmentally friendly and sustainable production process, the automaker claims.
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In that incident, Portillo alleged Sesmas lured her into the basement of Sesmas' home with the promise of donating old clothes and a TV as Sesmas prepared to move from Wichita to Dallas, according to an interview Portillo gave to The Wichita Eagle.
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A ton of old clothes that don't fit aren't going to do you or your child any favors, and you may as well see what you're dealing with, then get it out of the way before the first day of school rolls around.
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"The right service for you comes down to whether your priority is ease-of-use or making the most money," said Trae Bodge, a shopping expert who has made hundreds of dollars over the past two years selling her old clothes online.
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In a 2015 memoir, "Encounters: My Life in Publishing," Mr. Braziller recalled his century of contrasts: a son of Russian immigrants and a high school dropout, whose father died before he was born and whose mother sold old clothes from a pushcart.
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My grandfather was known never to throw anything away, so there were plenty of things lying around, from boxes filled with manuals for long-defunct electrical appliances to cases of old clothes smelling of mothballs, along with umpteen copies of Horse & Hound magazine.
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They still break iPhones (Lily, hope you got the screen fixed), they still sell their old clothes at thrift stores (Harley, they better have told you how cute your stuff is), and they still stress about school (Odessa, one more year — you got this).
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In fact, Kim already has a whole stash of old clothes for her daughter: When Kanye's stylist sifted through Kim's wardrobe, Kim reportedly didn't want to get rid of the discarded items because she wanted to save them for future generations, according to StyleWatch.
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"You can see for yourself," said 29-year-old clothes seller Diale Florence in the Mile 16 area of Buea, gesturing at an upturned car in a puddle, burned white after an attack three weeks ago that the army says was orchestrated by separatists.
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It's been a fine springtime weekend in the municipality I patrol, everyone outside blinking, lots of paleness, people dragging trash bags around full of brush, old clothes, sticks, construction debris, the remains of a Saturday night feast: the bones of ribs; the shells of clams.
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"People have started to burn furniture, old clothes, plastic, anything they can burn to keep warm at night, because it is still raining heavily and the temperatures at night in particular drop significantly," Geddo said, adding that more people could be expected to flee.
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"We lost everything and we cannot even go to the farm, so there is nothing for us to do," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a tiny room in a neighbor's house, where she and her two youngest children sleep on newspapers and old clothes.
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"I'm not going to lie obviously I would love to see some changes physically so I can fit back into my old clothes but I have to remind myself I'm only four months post and we have to be patient with ourselves," James Decker captioned the post.
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Burberry, Tom Ford, Thakoon and Tommy Hilfiger declared that the problem was the time lag between shows and sales (usually about six months, after which everyone is bored with the old clothes and has moved on), so they switched to a see now/sell now system.
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For two years, my salary stagnated at $21,655 but I'd always try to make extra cash, whether that was selling old clothes on eBay or going to focus groups, so if I saved enough, I'd be able to get a mortgage for a studio apartment within a few years.
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But when the police took DNA samples from Mr. Brech's family members and from his old clothes at his mother's home as part of the new investigation, and pulled DNA from a parallel inquiry into his disappearance, all three samples matched the DNA found on Nicky's pajamas in 1998.
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According to Plan International UK, a girls' rights charity, thousands of young women across Britain miss school regularly because they cannot afford to buy products for their period, and more than one in 10 girls have had to improvise sanitary products — by using old clothes or newspapers, for example.
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As fashion comes to grips with its own culpability in the climate crisis, the concept of upcycling, whether remaking old clothes or re-engineering used fabric or simply using what would otherwise be tossed into landfill, has begun to trickle out to many layers of the fashion world.
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British women discovered how to "make do and mend" during the rationing of World War II, turning old clothes into new ones and making "fashion on the ration" a harbinger of new styles, and the habit was sold to them in a long series of advertisements and "public information" films.
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Prior to Sesmas' move to Dallas, Portillo alleged that Sesmas lured her into the basement of her home on the premise of giving away old clothes and a TV. Sesmas then allegedly produced duct tape and a knife and ordered Portillo to bind Portillo's 3- and 10-year-old daughters, according to Portillo.
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Mercari, meaning "to trade" in Latin, has become a household name in Japan by touting an easy-to-use online flea market, where users can sell and buy old clothes, books, home appliances and even items such as toilet paper tubes and empty pet bottles via the smartphone app, often with a single click.
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Bob Hoffmann of Placentia, California had saved up a total of $8,000 and intended to use the money to take his wife on a romantic getaway when tragedy struck: Bob's wife Linda Hoffmann had donated some old clothes to a local Goodwill, and inside of one of the shirts contained Bob's secret stash of cash.
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I also detected a touch of Douglas Adams in Mastai's description of the utopian 2016: lots of asides about why time travelers need to wear suits made of their own skin, or why that world has so much abundance that people cycle through fashion trends in the space of a day, dropping old clothes into roving recyclers.
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We suggest a jazz performance by César López at the U.S. Grant National Memorial Park (Wednesday); a dance workshop with the Compañía de Danzas Tradicionales de Cuba JJ and the Dance Theater of Harlem (Saturday); or a sampling of ropa vieja — a dish called "old clothes" but is really shredded beef — at Amor Cubano or mojitos at La Floridita (anytime).
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Before Dylann Roof murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, before Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville while protesting the torch-wielding "alt-right" — before, in short, everyone suddenly felt an urgent need to understand violent white racism — a Norwegian journalist named Vegas Tenold was watching neo-Nazi street fights, attending a Klan wedding and learning the best way to burn a cross (first wrap it in old clothes, then finish with a ribbon of burlap to create a flaming spiral effect).
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