vintage shopping experience. Where once we had to trawl market stalls and rummage through forests of crackly, patchouli-scented polyester in search of buried treasure, these days we have apps and algorithms to do the heavy sifting for us.
And while Sunday afternoons on the sofa with Instagram might not be the ‘authentic’ thrift shopping experience, apps like Gem and digital vintage fairs like @AVirtualVintageMarket are helping to make secondhand less of a slog.
Still, it can be hard to strike gold when you don’t know what you’re searching for. Typing ‘70s dress’ into eBay or Etsy is a recipe for instant overwhelm, or possibly carpal tunnel syndrome.
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