One big mondo event as we lead up to the Fall: we’re extending an open invite to friends/family/the internets to come by the grace-gallery on August 14 to see the new larry. pieces in person, try them on, and place your orders for Fall at a 20% off retail discount! Past season pieces will be available for sale at 40% off retail.
I’ll also be hawking massive amounts of clothes, shoes, bags, accessories at garage-sale prices on the other side of the gallery. So many of my favourite pieces that I literally do not have room for in my closet anymore, so they have to go to new homes. Mostly womenswear (obviously) – shoes sized 8-9, clothing in the small range.
We’ll have snacks and a bar, of course. It’s how we do.
August 14
grace-gallery: 1898 Main St.
12-8PM
Published by Terri on August 5, 2010
in News.
front & co.
Front and Company, one of Vancouver’s most cherished consignment shops located within the Main St. district, is hosting a friends and family night that will be, for the first time ever, open to the public. Food, music, and discount shopping – it’s a trifecta of awesomeness.
I seldom set foot in this store without finding something amazing to take home, and consider it not only my duty, but my pleasure, to take all my goodies there whenever I purge my closet. I have…shall we say…habits when it comes to shopping. Which means I cycle through clothes every couple months, and another massive bag of garments and shoes is about to make the mass exodus out of my crammed closet and into their sorting room.
Mention this invite on The Conveyor Belt for admission and enjoy 10% off all regular priced clothing and 20% off gifts, for one night only. Get there early to be one of the first 50 people through the door and Front will throw a goodie bag your way as a bonus.
July 14, 3772 & 3746  Main Street from 6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Don’t be square.
We did it once a few months ago to wild reviews, satiating the thrifty and sartorial desires of our loyal readers and friends, and now we’re doing it again even bigger and badder.
July 25th at the Grace Gallery on Main & 3rd in Vancouver, mark your calendars and tell your friends because it will likely be another few months before this epic sale happens again.
Stay tuned for photos over the next week of my personal stash, a sneak peek at just a sliver of what will be available at the sale for dirt cheap prices.
I haven’t been uploading photos of my favourite thrift store scores lately, but let me assure you there have been plenty of amazing finds! My latest obsession is vintage bags – it’s becoming a bit of an issue, as I’m running out of storage space in my studio to store empty luggage.
I must take a rare and brief moment to complain about the severe overpricing at all the Value Villages and Salvation Armys out there. The clothes stink more than an acceptable amount, and 99.99% of the items are grossly overpriced for such ragged condition. I’ll take the smaller stores with radder stuff at cheaper prices, where volunteers allow all the profits to go right back to the charity they were intended for, thanksverymuch. Steveston is one of my prime destinations – I try to go about once a week nowadays.
Cases in point… cowboy boots, exactly my size at 8.5, for a whopping $5:
And this lovely sweater jacket, which was a bit ugly as it had fringe along the bottom and at the ends of the ties, but I simply cut that off when I got home and now it’s spectacular – not bad for a $6 investment:
For all you kids out there who loved and appreciated the big clothing sale I did with Shallom from Stylefinds a couple months back, you’ll be happy to learn there is another event on the horizon. We’ve been stockpiling new goods, and saved all the great stuff that remained from the last sale. Stay tuned for more details, but expect a date in July sometime…looking forward to sharing our wealth of fine finds with you…
It finally feels like summer, the sun is shining in Vancouver, and The Conveyor Belt has teamed up with Stylefinds to bring you an amazing clothing sale. Many of our readers know that we are in the early stages of launching an online store to redistribute the wealth of thrift store finds and vintage goods we’ve acquired over the years, at incredibly affordable prices. And next Saturday, that store will come to life for one day only.
Our live, in-person sale will be held at the Grace Gallery to kick off the summer season, and we’ll pass along the great deals we’ve scored in our vintage-shopping adventures. All of the remaining items in the Conveyor Belt and Stylefinds store will be available, but those pieces are just the tip of the iceberg – we haven’t had time to photograph the mounds of other goodies we’ve been storing. You’ll find clothes of every variety, shoes, purses, accessories, and more.
I’ve posted this way in advance because you too can sell your clothes at the sale, just get in touch with me for more details – terri[at]theconveyorbelt.com. We are more than happy to provide a platform for other people to sell their quality clothes at affordable prices.
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We’re still in the very early development stages, but Shallom of Stylefinds (and my partner in crime during NYFW and many other fashionable adventures) and I decided that there simply weren’t enough affordable options to keep our wardrobes fresh – so we launched our very own ramshackle store.
After reading an article in the Straight about an ‘affordable’ Vancouver retailer where you could rent pieces for 3 days or buy them outright and not agreeing that it was A) affordable, or B) anything at all like my girlfriends’ closet, we decided we’d give people what we ourselves wanted: a thrift store where you can buy outright, or receive a voucher for your donations and essentially ‘trade’ your quality, gently used clothing for new pieces.
The name of the store is yet to be determined, and we’ll be working out a more efficient payment method and cleaner visual displays of the current stock, but we were so excited about this project that we had to get it up right away. Any and all feedback you might have would be greatly appreciated. There are a few pieces in the new store right now, but we literally have piles of clothes to photograph and publish, so stay tuned!
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