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July 7, 2021 2:30 PM By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press
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This photo shows Cameron Howe at home in Lynchburg, Va., on June 28, 2021, with her collection of leggings purchased during the pandemic. She hopes to continue wearing leggings as business attire as she transitions back to work, while others are purging their casual pandemic wardrobes.
NEW YORK (AP) Alina Clark is about as tired of her pandemic wardrobe as her comfort clothes are stretched and torn.
“I have four sets of jeans, seven shirts and five sweaters that I wear every week,” said Clark, co-founder of a software development company in Los Angeles. “They’re everything I’ve worn in the last two years. Me and my wardrobe are suffering from COVID fatigue.”
At the resale site Poshmark, orders are up for handbags and work-worthy dresses when compared to last year. The same goes for blazers, suit jackets and heels.
Projections show the trend growing stronger. The secondhand clothing business is expected to more than double, from $36 billion to $77 billion in 2025, according to a recent report commissioned by the secondhand marketplace ThredUP and the research firm GlobalData.
The growth is driven by an influx of new sellers putting high-quality clothing into the market, said James Reinhart, co-founder and CEO of ThredUP. He estimates that 9 billion clothing items that are hardly worn are sitting in shoppers’ closets.
Pandemic clothing purge boosts secondhand marketplaces
By Leanne Italie article
Thousands of garments are stored on a three-tiered conveyor system at the ThredUp sorting facility in Phoenix on March 12, 2019. (AP File Photo)
NEW YORK (AP) - Alina Clark is about as tired of her pandemic wardrobe as her comfort clothes are stretched and torn. I have four sets of jeans, seven shirts and five sweaters that I wear every week, said Clark, co-founder of a software development company in Los Angeles. They re everything I ve worn in the last two years. Me and my wardrobe are suffering from COVID fatigue.
A wardrobe purge is on for some as vaccinations have taken hold, restrictions have lifted, and offices reopen or finalize plans to do so. The primary beneficiaries: resale sites online and brick-and-mortar donation spots, continuing a trend that s been building for the last several years.
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