{"id":36149,"date":"2017-04-27T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=36149"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:01:12","slug":"throwback-thursday-save-allan-suzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/throwback-thursday-save-allan-suzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Save Allan & Suzi!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m distressed by this Vice story<\/a> about skyrocketing rent leading to the possible shuttering of Allan & Suzi’s consignment\/vintage boutique.<\/p>\n

My relationship with Allan & Suzi goes back more than 20 years. In April 1995, I wrote a Wall Street Journal story<\/a> about the owners’ local-cable shopping show. (As Vice notes, Golden Globe-winner Tracee Ellis Ross was one of the models; I saw her do her thing on set.) I was shopping at the store when I overheard Allan and Suzi bantering with each other about which crazy outfits they were going to feature on air, and I was like, “I must write about this.” I was so nervous about getting every fact right for the Journal that I asked dozens of follow-up questions, and Allan said, “This is like being audited by the IRS!”<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, I just did a video for my new YouTube channel<\/a> in which I dated my serious collecting of vintage\/consigned clothes — and my resulting interest in “slow fashion” — to about 2000. (That video isn’t live yet; subscribe to my channel so you know when it comes out.) But looking at this story reminds me that I started getting a few pieces years earlier.\u00a0 I kept most of them, including this Lillie Rubin coat<\/a>, which I wore earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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Same #vintage coat in 2017 (left) and 1997 (right). #slowfashion #lillierubin #vintageclothes #nowandthen<\/a><\/p>\n

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