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Impossible Conversations's avatar

Just love your newsletter and am so glad to hear your voice again. I bump up against wondering if something is going to fit. How do you manage that? If there's no return window and an item doesn't fit, what do you do? If I'm going to purchase more second hand items virtually, should I also be looking for a tailor I like? Thanks!

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Andrea James's avatar

Re: the plus size issue, I think one of the reasons it's hard to find wonderful second-hand stuff is that there's so much less to begin with. Decades of amazing vintage plus size simply don't exist. It's only recently that major (mass market) labels have begun offering "extended" sizes. A lot of what's been out there over the last couple of decades has been low quality, so may not last long enough for multiple users. And then, of course, there's the devaluing of *us*. Second-hand stores have had the ability to turn away plus size clothing because they don't see us, or we're not who they want their clientele to be. I hope that the online selling markets will at least eliminate that issue, as we sell to one another.

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