Cause from what I remember growing up people made fun of you for thrift shopping and call you poor, cheap, etc. and today now it's considered "cool". I'm thinking Macklemore's song or maybe all these cool pin up girls. What are your thoughts?Cause from what I remember growing up people made fun of you for thrift shopping and call you poor, cheap, etc. and today now it's considered "cool". I'm thinking Macklemore's song or maybe all these cool pin up girls. What are your thoughts?

Macklemore didn't popularize it, hipsters who don't want to shop at mainstream stores like Charlotte Russe did. Hipster chic came back into fashion a while before the song "Thrift Shop". Basically all fashion trends are just repeats with a new spin on them. The hipster look of the 60's and 70's and grunge/heroin chic looks of the 90's are back now and are all over Pinterest and fashion blogs, magazines, forums, and websites.

It's been around a while, comes and goes in waves. In the 90s grunge wannabe scene, thrift shopping was a way to get the look Before that in the 80s, some did it then too. Like in that movie Pretty in Pink I think. But yeah, it's just fashion cycles

I've always gone to thrift stores or rummage sales, or even trash piles first. It's how I was raised. I am also proudly cheap.

I never heard anywhere it's "cool"...people downtown Toronto don't wear vintage as much as they wear Prada...sadly - it's still all about the brand name.

macklemore for sure

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