Charity shop
A thrift shop or thrift store buys and sells used goods, especially clothing.
Second -hand shops in the narrow sense
Traditionally, hot shops for second hand clothing ' second-hand shop. " Most stores only have a limited store space and can be found off the main shopping streets of the inner cities - are rare second hand shops for designer goods, such as the 1970, this Second Ella in Hamburg or the 2007 Trier opened Le Fyn.
Different second hand stores, especially in the apparel sector, speak to different audiences:
- Lover of fashion certain decades. The different trend towards so-called retro fashion, "Trash - Style" and " second-hand look" in different subcultural scenes, and partly also in the mass fashion let the original garments from the coveted decades as valuable or authentic compared to the imitated retro models appear.
- Collector of historical clothing and uniforms.
- Adventurous or creative people.
- People with alternative, consumer- critical ideas about life, who want to put together your own non-conformist and their opinion unkommerzielleren clothing style. Here a deliberate anti - aesthetic and a Gammel look is often maintained that the superficial chic upmarket, conformist people aware refuses. Second- hand clothing with visible signs of use is contrary to this intention.
- Financially weak people who buy for reasons of cost in thrift stores. They usually prefer to date as possible clothes, often initially expensive brand goods that one can not tell that she was needed. For this target group, second-hand is sometimes considered a flaw.
- For unique or rare occasions necessary, also for the broad mass of the population costly clothing, such as the wedding dress or clothing for the initiation rites of the religions.
Play a special role in the children's thrift stores. Given the high prices and relatively low usage time children's clothes, strollers, toys and the like often are passed in the family or among friends. Due to the decline in births since the late 1960s and the increasing individualization particularly in urban areas, this possibility has diminished.
Used merchandise stores in the broader sense
For several decades, the industry calls " buying and selling " after the term second-hand dealer had received a derogatory touch. In addition to its retail store, the second-hand dealers participate ( like other next to a main job) often at flea markets.
Antique shops, the used or out of print books and other printed works to buy and sell, there are parallel - they are classified as a special form of second-hand goods store. Time- parallel to the thrift stores for used clothing to such transactions have been established for entertainment media (records, CDs and videos later, and computer and console games).
Non-Profit Organization
Increasingly, operate and open organizations such as Diakonia, Caritas, workers' welfare associations or self-help homeless ( such as " motz & co " in Berlin ) nonprofit thrift shops ( in Switzerland often Brockenhaus or Brockenstube called ). They get their goods usually free and have mainly volunteers. This allows them to offer their goods cheaper than commercial traders, sometimes only symbolic prices. Some of these facilities are veritable hand - department stores with a wide range of goods from clothing to books, kitchenware and electrical appliances to furniture.
Even public treatment facilities (eg, Hall 2 of the Waste Management Operation München) operate increasingly thrift stores with used objects from the collection of bulky waste or from the recycling centers.
Related terms
- " Upper Wear party" and " hand me down" (at home or privately sell clothes, swap or give away )