September 4, 2019
Take the SECONDHAND SEPTEMBER challenge
1.75 billion pounds of clothing finds its way into U.S. landfills every month…
That’s 21 billion pounds of clothing in one year alone.
Since September is traditionally the highest grossing fashion retail month, Success in Style is challenging YOU to take the “Secondhand September” challenge with us — buy secondhand, exclusively, during the entire month of September 2019.
You’ll reduce waste and get rewards from our shops. Check it out…

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Neckting – A Dying Art?
I am a retired former corporate exec who from his earliest days automatically put on a necktie every day of the week except Saturdays. On Sunday, before Mass, I usually selected a more serious-looking tie, one . . .
The Cufflink – An Endangered Element of Fashion
Cufflinks are items of fashion that have been used for several centuries to secure the cuffs of dress shirts. They are designed only for use with shirts which have cuffs with buttonholes on both sides but . . .
Jeans and Dungarees – America’s Iconic Fashion
When I checked my clothes closet today, I discovered that my reliable and faded pair of blue jeans was made in China by Open Trails. I had found them up at Charity’s Closet in the Historic . . .