Friday is National Thrift Store Day, and secondhand stores nationwide will be offering deals to encourage people to give back by shopping. But while people have been repurposing worn-out clothing for as long as clothes have existed, thrift stores are a relatively new invention in American history.
In an earlier era nothing went to waste. “If you had a dress and it got worn out, you’d tear it up and make a pinafore for your daughter, and when that got trashed, you’d tear it up and stuff your chair with it,” explains historian Jennifer Le Zotte, author of From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies. Read More...
When it was first announced in 2021 that Donald Glover would be creating and starring in a TV version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the news was met with a high degree of skepticism. Would Glover and then collaborator Phoebe Waller-Bridge—originally set to co-write and co-star—be able to generate even a fraction of the white-hot chemistry that sustained the original movie? Doug Liman’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, released in 2005, succeeded almost entirely because of the star power of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who fell in love during filming and ignited a firestorm of tabloid gossip the likes of which we’ve hardly seen since. Read More...
If you've spent any time on social media in the last year or so, you've almost certainly heard of TikTok. TikTok is an app that lets users pair short videos with audio clips to create fun and unique viewing experiences. Last summer also saw the launch of TikTok Pro, a new feature that has changed the culture of TikTok. TikTok Pro is a feature that allows you to view certain analytics for your TikTok videos, such as the dates and times in which your videos are most frequently viewed or engaged with by other TikTok users. Read More...
