Shop: Beacon's Closet
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Beacon's closet is a Brooklyn based vintage business with locations in Greenpoint, Manhattan, Park Slope and Bushwick. Founder, Carrie Peterson, moved to New York City and crashed with her brother in Williamsburg before she moved out to a 'closet' which then became the first store home to Beacon's Closet!
Beacon's Closet now has multiple locations; Greenpoint, Manhattan, Park Slope and Bushwick. Beacon's Closet is often in the press and is known to be one New York City's top stores.
For a sense of the types of vintage items Beacon's Closet sells, see below:
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Vintage clothing is one of the most sustainable ways you can purchase clothing. No additional material is being added to the environment, therefore no additional toxins are created that would’ve been during the manufacturing of a new article of clothing.
That being said, an important component of ethical vintage shopping is that a very large percentage of vintage clothing is not sold and subsequently shipped overseas.
The fastest moving vintage clothes are from higher end brands. There are plenty of vintage stores that only sell high quality clothes, but even more have fast fashion brands on their racks. If there continues to be demand, vintage shops will continue to purchase more.
Part of the responsibility in changing this is vintage shops themselves. If they don't sell vintage, consumers cannot buy it, which means some shoppers may not buy so much fast fashion knowing they won't be able to sell or consign it to a vintage shop.
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