Secondhand

Feb 14, 2026

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27 min read

Preloved actually: 17 cool people we follow share their secondhand picks on every continent

From Nairobi to Hong Kong, we asked journalists, activists and writers to share the places they love — and what secondhand culture shows us about how clothes travel the world.

JD Shadel

Briefing

Charity shops are in crisis, but are resale platforms to blame? It's complicated.

Nov 7, 2025

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9 min read

Charity shops are in crisis, but are resale platforms to blame? It's complicated.

With so many clothes on Earth, how are hundreds of UK charity shops going out of business? We look at what's really happening from overproduction of ultra fast fashion to waste colonialism.

Amy Miles