Teen shop recycles clean, designer jeans and more at discount prices
With a booming stereo pumping out Top 40 hits, and designer labels like Abercrombie & Fitch, Gap and Aeropostale, the store Plato's Closet would feel at home inside any mall.
The big difference is the brand-name fashions here cost a fraction of their usual price. And, oh yes, the clothes are used.
Plato's Closet, part of a national franchise that specializes in second-hand merchandise, takes the old consignment shop idea and gives it a modern spin geared toward the lucrative market of 14- to 28-year-old shoppers.
Located at 818 Central Ave. in Albany, the store pays customers on the spot for good-quality, used clothes that a teenager or college student would consider stylish. The clothes are then put on a rack and sold for rock-bottom prices.
Take a green, embellished, beaded-tank top made by Forever 21.
Robertson paid the former owner $1.65.
It's now on sale for $5.
The big difference is the brand-name fashions here cost a fraction of their usual price. And, oh yes, the clothes are used.
Plato's Closet, part of a national franchise that specializes in second-hand merchandise, takes the old consignment shop idea and gives it a modern spin geared toward the lucrative market of 14- to 28-year-old shoppers.
Located at 818 Central Ave. in Albany, the store pays customers on the spot for good-quality, used clothes that a teenager or college student would consider stylish. The clothes are then put on a rack and sold for rock-bottom prices.
Take a green, embellished, beaded-tank top made by Forever 21.
Robertson paid the former owner $1.65.
It's now on sale for $5.
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