Through mending, lending and adopting a fast-fashion ethos, secondhand shopping is slowly shaking off its stigma in Australia
When it comes to fashion, we didn’t always have a fetish for newness.
Just ask historian Robyn Annear. The way she tells it in her new book, Nothing New: A History of Second-Hand, the Industrial Revolution changed everything. Before then most of humanity wore secondhand. “There was a limited amount of stuff to go around,” she says.
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