ThredUp is a familiar name to me, but when a representative for the brand reached out to see if I'd like to receive $100 in credit to use while checking out some recent updates and offerings, I knew I had a mission: I would recreate my favorite onscreen outfit of all time.
For those unfamiliar with the company, ThredUp is a consignment site where you can create an account and use it to buy and sell your gently used clothes. The company has been around since 2009 and has processed approximately 230 million secondhand items to date, according to its website.
When shopping on ThredUp, you can filter your search results by category, size, brand, price, condition, color, material, pattern and more, allowing you to cut out the noise while browsing.
Thrifting has become more of a hot-button topic than ever thanks to conversations around sustainability in fashion (the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that in 2018 alone, U.S. landfills received a whopping 11.3 million tons of textiles, the bulk of which was discarded clothing).
ThredUp's website attempts to confront this issue by providing a tool under the "Item Details" of each listing that claims to approximate how much energy and how many emissions you would save by wearing that specific item 10 times.
