find your favorite style: Don’t be dictated to by fashion designers. Choose your favorite style when you shop resale. Put together a look that is your own and don’t look like everyone else. Whether you’re refreshing your wardrobe or your home, make it unique. Plus, at resale prices you can afford to try a new style! Then, if it’s not for you, just pass it on.

enjoy a wide selection: Your favorite color and design is more readily available in resale than it is in new-merchandise stores, since those new stores can’t afford to carry the variety of styles a resale shop can. And the selection is always changing at resale shops. If you don’t find it today, you probably will next week… or even tomorrow.

get full value: You know how a new car depreciates the minute it’s driven off the dealer’s lot? Same thing happens in clothing, furniture, and equipment. It’s common to save more than 50% off retail prices when you shop resale. And savings of 90% are not unheard-of. Your money gets you better quality at any price level. Why buy cheap when you can buy inexpensively?

enjoy personalized service: Can’t find anyone to take your money in a department store? Hate standing in check-out lines at discounters? Tired of trying to put together a look without someone helping you? Try resale! Most resale shops are personalized, warm places. Whether you’re just browsing or seriously shopping, you’ll get the service you thought was extinct. (our eBay store has incredible customer service AND a easy breezy return policy)

be eco-savvy: Imagine the cost to the environment for new items: depleting the soil, adding fertilizers to the watershed, increasing air pollution with shipping by truck or boat. Add to that the fact that you’re cutting down on the waste stream: now don’t you feel good about saving that designer item from the land fill? Besides, you’ll have to work less yourself when you shop resale, which has its own savings to contribute to the environment!

i found this great little blurb on a site called: too good to be threw.com.
it’s so true!!! i have shifted so heavily from retail shopping to resale shopping that my clothes and home items budget has plummeted over the last four years. i use to spend a fortune on clothes and home items when i shopped in the malls and local boutiques and now that i spend the majority of my funds on resale finds my savings have added up large amounts AND i feel like i have better stuff than before. i feel like i was captive to the whims and fancy of designers and design teams for big name stores and now i just find what i find and the variety is incredible.

think about what it costs to full up a tank of gas to spend a day or weekend shopping in the city - $40-$50-$60 or more!!! now, think about the costs associated in food, drink, and legwork.

now, try spending half that time on-line and you will usually find a better variety and more much interesting items than you would at the local mall. on-line the only cost you incur beyond the price of your items is shipping.

at light switch, we ship most single items at a cost $4.85 and then combine shopping as $2 per additional items. so for $24.85 you can have 11 items shipped to your house AND usually it’s much less since we will use a flat rate box whenever possible. if you have a return you may spend $4.85 or $5.00, but if you had to return to the mall, how much would you spend in gas?

just some food for thought.

personally, my favorite thing about S&TC the show was the fashion. Patricia Fields was a magician with costuming, she turned SJP into an icon of celebrity fashion with her quirky, daring, and perfectly sublime selections of clothes. every character wore her personality with the wardrobes that were put together for them - really, quite a feat when you think about how diverse those four characters are in attitude and tastes.

i saw the film, and the clothes are HEAVEN. all the usual suspects make appearances - Valentino, Dior, Chanel, Gucci, and some fresh names like - Nina Ricci, Philip Lim, Derek Lam and others. with Carrie hooking up the uber-wealthy Big in the show finale, her wardrobe allowance went through the roof!!!
apparently the rest of America’s fashion-centric population agrees that S&TC is still relevant and have made S&TC the number one film in America.it is two hours of fashion eye-candy.if you’ve seen it, let us know what you think!

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the brilliant beauty and understated elegance of this ICON is BACK…at least for now. she made an appearance at the Swarovski Fashion Rocks show in London wearing white Valentino and looked just SMASHING. Read the rest of this article…

Valentino Garavani has announced his retirement after 45 years as a couturier. He is famous for his stunning women’s clothes; having dressed celebs, royals, and wealthy socialites for nearly half a century. Read the rest of this article…

Leonard of Paris is known for his bright and beautiful prints and patterns. He’s been making super fun dresses for decades and still throws down some seriously hot goodies to this day. We have a seriously hot vintage jersey knit dress which has an amazing “Goddesses” print that is TDF!!! If you want a stand out dress that next to no one else will have, then check it out!
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We just listed an AMAZING Marni bag today! We love this designer! New York Magazine did a recent article all about Marni and the designer. Hope you love it as much as we do. Her designs are just so…charming.

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we love that animal prints are having another go-around this season! you have to have a certain amount of self confidence and a bit of daring to pull off animal prints, but if you do it right, it’s heavenly. Gwen Stefani is a perfect example of a hot mama that can pull off the wildest of animal prints without missing a beat. my fave is what Givenchy did.

we’ll do our best to stock a few great animal prints for fall!

I use to be a snobbish shopper. I would only shop at places like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, The Gap, Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy’s, and expensive boutiques like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Burberry for my clothes and accessories. In my early 20’s I was living on my own and paying my own Visa & American Express bills and so my shopping dollar had to stretch much further so I started to dabble at Nordstrom Rack, TJ Maxx, Ross, Marshall’s, outlet malls, and the clearance racks. I saved so much money that I slowly started to shop in these places more often than not. I still dressed great, I just didn’t have $3000 in credit card bills every month.
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