global trade of used clothing has a long history. Until the mid-19th century, used clothing was an important way to get clothes. Only through industrialization, mass production, and income increase, is the general public can buy new clothes instead of used clothing.
During the European colonial period, used clothing was exported to the colony and, locally, the charity shop serving the poor emerged.
Since World War II, used clothing trade, globally, has grown rapidly. With environmental issues becoming more prominent and fashion pollution noted, people learning how to be environmentally friendly and secondhand/pre-owned stores have become very fashionable and respectable in Europe and the United States. Internet connectivity adds strongly to the online trade of used clothing.
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Charitable organizations, such as Salvation Army, Goodwill, and Oxfam, are the biggest contributors to used and used clothing categories. These organizations collect clothing and donate it to poor people outside their country borders or resell it in brick and mortar retail stores as a fundraising strategy.
While charity shops dominated the used markets from the 1960s through the 1970s, more specialized and profit-oriented stores emerged in the 1980s. These shops cater mainly to fashionable women's demographics and offer women and children designer clothing, and sometimes high-end formal wear for men. Redistributed specialist boutiques in high-end contemporary used designer modes (eg, 2nd Take, or Couture Designer Resale), while others (such as Buffalo Exchange and Plato's Closet) specialize in vintage or retro modes, period fashions, or contemporary bases and one find -of-a-kind. Others serve certain active sports by specializing in things like equestrian equipment, dive equipment, etc. The resale business model has now expanded to athletic equipment, books, and music categories. Used sales move to the peer-to-peer platform - effectively cutting out retailers as intermediaries - when websites like eBay and Amazon introduce opportunities for Internet users to sell anything online, including designer handbags (or scams), fashion, shoes, and accessories.
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Used clothing: recycling option
The customer base of the used clothing market is usually very cost conscious and often promotes the ideology of sustainability and environmentalism. Used clothing, however, is the recycling of used and/or unwanted clothing, and reciprocal buying/selling/selling transactions between customers and retailers keep countless amounts of unwanted clothing from landfills and landfills.
On a larger scale, textile recycling warehouses, which use used clothing or used clothing have become very prominent and influential in the trade in used goods. These sorted clothes are compressed into bales of 50 kilograms (110 pounds) and exported. Unsorted second-hand clothing can be compressed into bales up to 500 to 1000 kg. Better used clothing is valued for export to Central American countries and lower grade clothing is shipped to Africa and Asia. Hubs for sorting used clothing are in South Asia, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary. The second-hand trade has more than doubled between 1991 and 2004 due to increased demand in former Eastern Bloc and African countries.
In rich Western countries, used clothing and used clothing occupy a special market, whether in third world countries, used clothing imported from the west, is the source of basic clothing. The largest used clothing exporter is the United States, followed by Britain, Germany and the Netherlands.
The world's largest importer of used clothing is Sub-Saharan countries, receiving more than 25% of global used clothing exports.
Some countries, such as the Philippines and India banned the import of used clothing, to protect the local textile industry. Other countries such as Pakistan, Uganda or South Africa, which have a growing Textile Industry, have limitations or without limits. South Africa, for example, allows the import of used clothing/pre-owned only for charitable purposes and not for commercial resale.
The trade in used goods varies from country to country, for example in Nigeria and Senegal, used clothing reflects traditional local style and is mainly locally produced. Conversely used stores in South Africa or Zambia reflect western fashion trends. Each country, adopting western ways of trading used clothing for local conditions. South Africans use Gumtree, eBay or Craigslist, to trade used clothing and other items. In economic centers such as Cape Town, one finds charity shops as well as upscale boutiques, used designer clothing stores like 2nd Take, to reflect the diverse demand for used fashion.
The second hand clothing cycle seems to be timeless and profitable. This applies to consignment stores like 2nd Take, where designer clothing, which sit too long on a sales rack, is given back to the owner or donated to a charity or store that will sell unsold clothing to textile recyclers or thrift stores.
See also
- The circular economy
- Mitumba (clothing)
- The Salaula industry, which means "picking from the pile by stirring" in some African countries like Zambia
- Continuous outfit
- Continuous mode
- Trashion
References
Further reading
- Hansen, Karen Tranberg (2000). Salaula: World of Used and Zambian Clothing . University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226315805.
External links
- Sally Baden and Catherine Barber, "The impact of used clothing trade on developing developments", "Oxfam", September 2005
- Hansen, Karen Tranberg (1999). "The Used Clothing Meeting in Zambia: Global Discourse, Western Commodities, and Local History". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute . Cambridge University Press. 69 (3): 343-365.
- "Apparel Trade", International Textiles, Garments & amp; Leather Federation, April 6, 2010
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