Annie Grapek and Logal Rhodes are founders of Downhouse several years in Atlanta, GA. They met as roommates and started selling vintage fashion together on the side. Downhouse houses an eclectic array of vintage clothes and found items. Many Downhouse selects have been revised or updated in some way so that they look very stylish in today's world of fashion.
The Downhouse assortment tries to maintain a select of non-gendered items. The clothes always use high quality fabrics and the focus for them is on colors, comfort and shape.
To get a sense of clothes you can purchase from Downhouse, see below:
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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