Let’s support the trend for vintage clothes and other stuff!
What with seeing the wonderful film “The Economics of Happiness” recently and joining this blog, not to mention watching “The Story of Stuff” as preparation for our showing of it on March 14th, reducing my consumption footprint has been much on my mind! One way of reducing our footprint (even if it doesn’t declutter our lives!) is to buy second-hand. I recently noticed that a vintage clothes shop, Rejuvinate, has opened up near my house and I dropped in to talk to Sonia, the person who started it.
Rejuvinate in Hills Road
Most of Sonia’s clothes are second-hand and quite trendy. (She gets a lot of students and tourists dropping in.) Things are not jumble-sale cheap (jackets £25 – £40 and there are items for £100, but there are also things for 50p and I saw a slightly shabby but trendy jacket for a fiver). Knowing nothing about the vintage world, I was fascinated when Sonia told me she can only buy individual items that are pre-1980 – anything else she will buy by weight, so you might do better to sell on ebay. She also sells a bit of new stuff, particularly haberdashery, so buyers call alter their clothes, and also craft items by local artists (hard-painted cards etc). This is a young- people’s trend that is going in the right direction! I shall tell my daughter about it!
Rejuvinate, 28 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1LA; phone 01223 360949. Open six days a week 10-6.