Secondhand clothes are wardrobe essentials, passed on from one person to the next and each unique item tells a story, yet they seem to get a mixed review amongst shoppers. Does using the term Vintage free you from the stigma or does buying second hand clothes make you feel like a second class citizen? As you have alighted on this page, the chances are, you are – at least a bit – sympathetic to conscious fashion! But treading lightly upon this earth, is a complicated business,

This was the early 2000s and while most of my friends favoured either the head-to-toe black look or the sugary sweet style of early Britney Spears, I remained unenamoured by clothes. If my clothes were a house, they would include mix and match cushions, Ikea furniture and upcycled pieces with the odd statement buy thrown in. In short, I hadn’t found my style. You could say that I was a late bloomer in the fashion department, but when I eventually fell in fashion love, I fell