Charity Shop Chic
April 22, 2009 by amucklow
What with this recession and all, there has been a surge in interest in the charity shop sector. At the beginning of the year The Guardian reported that due to the increasing popularity of trawling through the rails at the local charity shop the shops were appealing for more donations. It seems charity shops were one area of the economy experiencing a boom.
The Sunday Times Style also featured an article pin pointing all the best shops around the country, saving your leg work for you.
The next series of Mary Queen of Shops, will also see Mary Portas giving some charity shops top tips for pulling in the punters.
If you have a favourite charity shop that you don’t mind disclosing then let us know.
I’m fuming about the trail for ‘Mary, Queen of Charity Shops’
as seen in this week’s Time Out magazine(issue no.2023), giving it the same old, same old.
Many generous donors would be gutted to see their donations described as ‘rubbish’. As a former shop manager, I can testify to the Jigsaw, Armani, Voyage, Orla Kiely, LKBennett Vivienne Westwood and MaxMara that was kindly donated to us.
I’d like to take this opportunity to praise & recommend the following:
Scope (Addiscombe Road, West Croydon & Beckenham)
Red Cross (Beckenham)
Cancer Research (Chelsea World’s End)
Oxfam (Wimbledon Village, Putney, Chelsea World’s End)
Save the Children (Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon)
Save the Children (Orpington)
Children’s Society (East Sheen)
Barnardos (East Sheen)
Please – enough of the patronising and falling back on snidey, inaccurate remarks.
I’m disabled and without charity shops (and TKMaxx) , I would have nothing decent to wear.
The public – ok, specifically the affluent, upper-middle-class – are not stupid. Quite apart from the indisputable importance of recycling, ethical considerations and revenue raised by these charities for their causes, they provide an opportunity for some people to wear clothes that they would otherwise never be able to afford.
There you go – aspirational shopping with added morality.