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The process ofour selection: how do these great pieces come into our shop?
You are sick and tired of that old pair of trousers? You have had them forever and it is time to get rid of them.
For example, you donate them to a kind of charity by throwing them into a special container on the street.
The contents of this container are then weighed and bought by a sorting company. This sorting company pays the charity per kilogram. So in this case, charity doesn’t use the clothes themselves but receives money for it!
Let’s stay on that pair trousers you threw away:
On the first sorting table we sort the bag that contains only trousers, including yours, which will be binned all together.
The second table is used to sort the goods by material, quality and model. The models wanted for wholesale is 1% of the 100% that has been collected. The other 99% goes to, for example, other secondhand shops all over the world or is recycled for cleaning cloths, filling materials, insulation, upholstery filling etc. On the second table the trousers are being sorted by material, quality and model.
In the wholesale company a new selection takes place on again material, quality and model.
At the end, those trousers are sold to retail buyers like us, who again have to go through our strict judgment and falcon eye to see if they are good enough for our collection. The ones who did made it get a special treatment. They get cleaned and prepared for our shops.
After all that sorting and quality checks they finally hang in our shops, waiting for its new owner.
Most of the people do not know how the articles get in our shops. Some think it got there by coincidence. But as you have read, it takes much more to own a spot. We make a big deal of effort to offer what the costumers ask for. We cannot assure to every demand. Secondhand is and remains a scarce item (meaning you cannot make more of it). Take John Travolta’s white suit in Saterday Night Fever. Everybody thought it was a common thing to wear in the 70’s, but in truth it was very hard to find.
