So where do you all buy your clothes?

thrift stores and band t-shirts.
i havent bought clothes for so long, my pants are old na have holes in them, i love them.

no point on flaming honky for that because I already figured such a long time ago.

 

I buy my clothes from vendors at shows and festivals. I love doing that because a lot of my clothes have a memory tied to them.

Everything else of mine is hand me downs that I spruce up. I can't make clothes very well, but I have learned to decorate them!

 

I try to by my clothes from kindfolk who make a living by making clothes-hess I try to get alot of stuff from vendors at festivals. But most my shirts come from shows or the internet condisering most are of bands...

 

i make my own clothes, i hate abercombie type clothing, it falls apart in the wash and its made by child laborers in Indonesia

 

Are clothes made by Abercrombie & Fitch actually of bad quality? I only ask because I can't imagine people spending so much at that store when the clothing doesn't at least stay together.

 

Well i'lve had a t-shirt for 8 years and it still looks new so those little indonesian kids make damn fine clothing.

 

I make my clothes,or usually buy shirts from the local headshop. My jeans are always a gift...at Christmas and birthdays,when family asks what I want,I tell them to buy jeans..I think most come from JC Penney's. I do pick up some sweet clothes at thrift shops and yard sales. I like it,not only because it's recycling good clothes and the price is good,but also because you can find things at those places that no retail store has. So it's all good.

 

i usually pick up clothes from my friends when they are getting rid of them, thrift shops are definitely essentailly awesome, i make a few things, and i like to support my local shakedown at festivals so i buy/trade there. i like meetin the people who make the clothes... makes it special.
poor lil indonesian kyds that make clothes for arrogant fucks like you.....

 

my mom know's this guy who is a sales rep for oneill so all of my pants are oneill. they were all like 5 bucks too.

i bought a ton of stuff from this little headshop in lafayette indiana called amused. it rocks. i got 3 dresses for 12 bucks each and a few cheap shirts. i hate buying clothes from old navy and the gab and whatnot because everytime i do, i see 12 people with the same thing on the next day.

 

It depends on what I am doing. I try to make my own things but i am sortof crappy right now and they are not ok for work. I get most of my clothes from kohl's or old navy.

 

if i could actually sew i'd totally make my own clothes ...
but, I'm cheap so mainly I shop at thrift stores or anywhere else cheap, but I do also like this one store around here called "viktor viktoria" if they were popular enough to have their own website id link it, but yeah... its small, the only one I know of.
I like to use the internet for clothes too, sometimes you can get clothes for basically a steal off of ebay.

 

What? That doesn;t make any sense. I didn't tell abercrombie to use cheap labor.

 

i'd like to point out that if you think about it, it is *extremely* difficult to *not* support some sort of sweatshop labor when you are buying. it's really unfortunate. even some of the vendors at festivals aren't what they seem. a LOT of them actually. i remember buying a pair of pants at the first or second gathering of the vibes years ago, and seeing the 'made in xxx (can't remember)' tag sewn inside when i was putting them on later. talk about disappointment. a lot of these places are not what they appear to be. i am willing to be a lot that gypsy rose is the same. yes i have read their thing about some women's group in another country making fair wages sewing their stuff, and i actually bought that until i was checking out a recent catalog that said which items were made by that women's group - very VERY few. and ixchel. it's mass produced hippie crap that is no better than any high priced stores out there. and these places are where a lot of little head shops order their hippie clothing from to sell in their own stores. some are cool enough to sell clothing made by real independant artists, so just check the tags when you buy it if this concerns you. buying from an independant artist is of course much better, but remember that someone is still making the material they use.

my opinion is do what you can. independant artists are usually a little more expensive since they charge for their actual labor (i'm guessing none of you mamas work in sweatshop conditions? lol) but their quality is great too. (like i said before though, watch for the ones who don't charge enough, in my experience, the quality isn't always there in that case) i'm imagining some of the stuff i see posted in this very forum would stand up to YEARS of use...

 

the only reason i start cheap auctions on occasion is to get my name out there and bring in new customers!! Hell I had a skirt start at 99 cent and go up to $46 last week, I was so suprised!!!! Once you get them with the first item, they come back for more if they are happy with the work and quality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its a marketing gimmick I guess. but it does work good for business.............................. Yes I put a lot of work and time into my items, but It makes me more happy to please the customer than it does for me to make a rediculous profit, and a lot of times the fabric only costs me $5 a skirt, sometimes less if I use curtains and sheets and other misc vintage stuff.......................................
I love getting good feedback on ebay, it's like heroin LOL
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thrift stores,.... funky munky is the shit, I also love wild roots and few awsome hippy stores in madison wisconsin, and then I make the rest.

 

don't get me wrong i've started them low once in a while for the same reason, usually with stuff that hadn't sold in a couple months. kind of a clearance, and yeah it does get your name out, but i've also found that a lot of the people that bought cheap only wanted the cheap stuff.

for me personally selling cheap wasn't worth it. i did a lot of patchwork and that can take a lot of time. for it to be worth my time i had to charge at least what i made at my other job at the time ($8.50/hr) and some will charge $10/hr, which i don't think is unreasonable. it does add up when you add in materials and all that. especially if you do appliques or anything extra. i don't think it's making a ridiculous profit, i think it's making a fair wage. your stuff is unique, and i think that if you figure in your time and all that you can get what it's worth. i may not have gotten the quick sales that i got when i did put them up cheap, but it worked out better overall for me.

and of course, that's just my opinion, and certainly not the only one.

 

_I live in one of those third world countries, a lot of things you find in many of the stores are made here & I wanted to say: Thanks!, those companies employ a lot of men & women that without them would not have a job. With that said, kids are not employed here anywhere because it's illegal.

You see, what you think is 'horrible conditions' is sometimes the salvation of someone else -& their entire family-.

 

I knew i was helping those kids out someway.

 

i dont typically BUY a lot lot of clothes.... but i like old navy, because their stuff is cheap, yet durable...

but i love buying from independant people the most, but i just cant afford it all the time....

and funky monkey is the SHIT!

 

This is too true...so many of the products we buy are made by cheaper labor elsewhere (not just clothing either) Get yer V dub, made in Mexico...
Lottsa mama's are willing to work for what would pass for similar pay/economy ratio of sweatshop laborers because it does afford them a chance to do what they love, stay at home w/kids ect ect ect...but if you think of all the time spent purchasing materials/making/selling....for what they get from it, it's doubtful most are getting a terrific wage for alla the time they actually spend doing it. There is alotta time spent that doesn't get accounted for in this process besides actually making a piece of clothing.

LOL!! Wordy pain in the ass aren't I? As far as clothes...I've had to wear dress clothes for work for years and always bought great stuff for dirt cheap off the clearance racks. I used to j/k and say I was the queen of clearance. But I love salvo!! It's like a treasure hunt everytime yah go in there.