Cleaning out your closet makes money from like-new clothing
Does the idea of buying a pair of $250 designer jeans for $39 sound appealing, or finding a $300 pair of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes for $69 or less? Perhaps a MaxMara two-piece suit for $159, which could easily fetch $800, would catch your eye? Consignment store shopping is one way to save plenty of money on designer and trendy clothes, with prices at about half [ Read More ]
270 jobs are saved as Scottish clothes chain bought out of administration
THE owner of Scottish-based women’s fashion chain Happit was bought out of administration yesterday by the man who produces clothing for labels such as Cypress Point, Everlast and Lee Cooper. Leeds-based Ellie Louise Trading collapsed at the start of the month, putting 97 stores and nearly 440 jobs at risk. The company – which traded under the Budget Box, Ellie Louise, Gimbles, Happit, Seconds Ahead [ Read More ]
Olympic ‘sweatshop clothes’ probe
Allegations of “sweatshop” labour conditions for workers producing outfits for Olympic volunteers were being taken “extremely seriously”, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) said. The Independent alleged that Olympic merchandise which will be worn by British athletes and volunteers at the Games “is being manufactured for Adidas in sweatshop conditions in Indonesia”. Workers at nine Indonesian factories which have contracts to produce [ Read More ]
Does the idea of buying a pair of $250 designer jeans for $39 sound appealing, or finding a $300 pair of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes for $69 or less? Perhaps a MaxMara two-piece suit for $159, which could easily fetch $800, would catch your eye? Consignment store shopping is one way [ Read More ]
THE owner of Scottish-based women’s fashion chain Happit was bought out of administration yesterday by the man who produces clothing for labels such as Cypress Point, Everlast and Lee Cooper. Leeds-based Ellie Louise Trading collapsed at the start of the month, putting 97 stores and nearly 440 jobs at risk. [ Read More ]
Allegations of “sweatshop” labour conditions for workers producing outfits for Olympic volunteers were being taken “extremely seriously”, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) said. The Independent alleged that Olympic merchandise which will be worn by British athletes and volunteers at the Games “is being manufactured for Adidas [ Read More ]
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