It’s hard to believe summer is already almost over. One of the good things about the end of the season, though, is that many online retailers are starting to announce and hold their end-of-summer and Labor Day sales. While you still have another month or so…
A question I get a lot from people who wear clothing is, “Where can I buy clothes that don’t cost too much, but won’t fall apart after the first wash?” As a former vintage clothing reseller and a long-time fashion podcaster, I’ve seen the good, the…
It’s been a banner few years for people who hate doing laundry. A slew of brands has arrived promising that you can wear their products for days, weeks, or months straight without ever putting them in the wash. Wool & Prince started the trend in 2013…
Today, BuzzFeed News posted a reminder of exactly how enormous and inescapable Amazon is. In a single list, reporter Leticia Miranda went through all of Amazon’s various subsidiaries and sub-brands, many of which you probably haven’t heard of. The usual suspects are all there — Mechanical Turk, Twitch, Audible…
Haptic signing is a process in which a hearing, sighted person conveys information to a deaf and blind individual by touching their back or other parts of their body. It’s effective, but what happens if the deafblind person wants to be more independent? Well, new haptic-feedback…
The “little black dress” has been considered a staple in women’s fashion since the designer Coco Chanel popularized it in the 1920s. Since then, it’s seen many iterations, most recently, by machine-learning software developed by two recent MIT graduates, called Glitch. Pinar Yanardag and Emily Salvador met…
Magpies & Peacocks, the nation’s only nonprofit design house that collects and reuses post consumer textiles, clothing, and accessories, opens their first permanent retail space in Houston on Saturday, June 1. The Co:Lab Marketplace will be located inside the organization’s current warehouse space in Houston’s East…
Could buying vintage be the antidote to fast fashion? Photograph: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Asos Marketplace/Beyond Retro/Rex Features Like it or loathe it, when Kim Kardashian wears something, people take notice. With the reality TV star wearing secondhand Azzedine Alaïa to Paris fashion week, secondhand Jean Paul Gaultier…
The North Brunswick Township High School Parent Teacher Student Organization will hold a used clothing drive from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on May 4 on the patio outside the auditorium of the school, 98 Raider Road, North Brunswick. Rain or shine. Clothing, shoes, pocketbooks, belts,…
As soon as your book your music festival ticket, you’ve got to start planning your outfits. Festival clothing stands out from your everyday wardrobe, and one-of-a-kind looks that stand out are what festival fashion is all about. This season, you’ll see music festival outfits inspired by…