Re/Dress is a Brooklyn plus-size vintage and contemporary second-hand store we’ve been meaning to write about for a while, and here it is in a nice little NYC fashion roundup in the Times’ excellent frugal travel blog this week, so thanks, Matt Gross.
If you’re one of those people who thinks vintage dressing is strictly a skinny girls’ game, you probably haven’t seen this Boerum Hill shop, where the Times found “clothes by everyone from Target to Marina Rinaldi, with prices generally hovering between $20 and $80.” Some is vintage, some is Lane Bryant resale and the like, but none of it is smaller than a size 14 (but beware that’s about a size 10 by 1950s standards.)
This weekend, the store has two Fashion Week events. Tonight is a “glutton for fatshion” zine release party (there are still zines?) where you should bring booze, clothes to transform at a DIY station along with your dancing shoes. Tomorrow at 3 is a trunk show by Size Queen Clothing, Cupcake & Cuddlebunny and Diesel Femme Wear, three lines you will assuredly not see at the Bryant Park tents. You also won’t see “size 3x-5x models both butch + femme,” which Re/Dress is still trying to line up as of this Friday afternoon writing, so if that’s you, email [email protected]. Fun!
Re/Dress, 109 Boerum Pl. between Pacific and Dean streets, 718-522-7962.
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Thanks for the tip, Faye! You should post this one on fb. Beth
P.S. Is Fatoosh ever going to run?!
I’m so losing it; I SAW this on fb!
Yay! I <3 Re/dress!
granny moment: can someone possibly explain to me what <3 means? Oh it's a sideways heart! Cool.
so glad to see Re/Dress getting so much love, it’s the best!
Just as an FYI, ReDress closed in the Fall of 2011. A travesty for plus size vintage.