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  • Last Friday night, techno music resounded as models wearing altered thrift-shop garb strode a homemade catwalk during the first night of the month-long challenge, in which seven designers vie to create inspiring clothes on whatMorrow calls “a recession budget.”

    Thrift-Shop Garb Gets a Makeover in Missoula « Scavenging 2009

  • Last Friday night, techno music resounded as models wearing altered thrift-shop garb strode a homemade catwalk during the first night of the month-long challenge, in which seven designers vie to create inspiring clothes on whatMorrow calls “a recession budget.”

    2009 March « Scavenging 2009

  • Entrants included a macramé bikini crafted of shredded fabric; designer Rachel Woodward tore her thrift-shop purchases into thin strips, which became her macramé “string.”

    Thrift-Shop Garb Gets a Makeover in Missoula « Scavenging 2009

  • Last Friday night, techno music resounded as models wearing altered thrift-shop garb strode a homemade catwalk during the first night of the month-long challenge, in which seven designers vie to create inspiring clothes on whatMorrow calls “a recession budget.”

    2009 March 13 « Scavenging 2009

  • Entrants included a macramé bikini crafted of shredded fabric; designer Rachel Woodward tore her thrift-shop purchases into thin strips, which became her macramé “string.”

    2009 March 13 « Scavenging 2009

  • That's like wearing an ugly ol 'thrift-shop muumuu instead of a decent bridal gown ...

    Video: man in Japan weds anime game character Boing Boing 2009

  • The European Carhartt clothing line is, if anything, anti-work, a slagheap of thrift-shop dishevelment—letterman cardigans and puffy thermal vests—designed for inked-up millennials.

    My Carhartt Detroit Jacket Dan Neil 2011

  • And wherever you live, become a boutique shopper, an eBay/thrift-shop scavenger and a stickler for alterations.

    Experimenting With Casual Menswear Teri Agins 2011

  • Junky Styling: a manual for thrift-shop clothes-remixers

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Entrants included a macramé bikini crafted of shredded fabric; designer Rachel Woodward tore her thrift-shop purchases into thin strips, which became her macramé “string.”

    2009 March « Scavenging 2009

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