The fashion industry primes us to reinvent ourselves every season. Don’t fall for it.
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By Julia Gordon Medill Reports CHICAGO — Ali El, a vintage seller in London, recently encountered a paradoxical nightmare: a massive royal blue Ikea bag overflowing with used clothing, “gifted” to him by a neighbor. You would think this is a dream come true, a heap of free secondhand clothing. But there was no designer […]