I am getting into the spirit of the season with some spring cleaning of my wardrobe. I’m not sure if it’s normal to get as much pleasure out of this process as I do: Trying on literally everything that I own and analyzing whether or not it’s time to give it the boot. Do I ever wear it? Does it even look good? Too tattered? Ugly? Oh, the hours of fun. Then it’s off to the Red Light where I might get enough money selling them to buy a nice sandwich, and give the rest to charity. That’s because I’m small-time, but women in the big-time go through the same process, and their castaways are from Armani and Chloé, for instance. Thanks to the internet, you can have clothing swaps with such people, but frankly I am extremely wary of EBay. The British site ClothesAgency is similar, but more straightforward: There’s no auction/bidding/waiting/strategizing, just straight you like it, you buy it. It also is all high end clothing-specific, either unused or barely used. And you don’t necessarily have to use PayPal, which also gives me the willies. It’s also cheap to sell, should you have anything worth selling. Here is an example of a nice find (because 80% of the point of spring wardrobe cleaning is making room for new things):

This is a mini-dress from the aforementioned Chloé, brand new with the tags still on. The price is 75 British pounds, which if you roughly say is twice that much in US dollars, means it’s $150. Compare that to a never-owned Chloé dress, which will run you $1,000 at minimum, and potentially well over $5,000.