We take the time and make it a personal effort to hand sort all of our clothing items piece by piece. We look for any and all kinds of defects that we can get rid of so we can ensure quality with every item we sell. This is the only way to stand behind every item we sell. We do not carry inventory with signs of wash wear, balling, holes, color fading, missing buttons, broken zippers, stains of any kind, disintegrated elastic, worn out seams and broken hem lines. We consider those kinds of items damaged goods and do not get passed the trash can. If an item is something we ourselves would not wear, then that type of an item never even hits our store. When we buy our clothing we do not go through just one pair of eyes we have two of us inspecting each item. My husband and I inspect items separately to ensure quality. Trust me this can get tedious as what I think is wash wear my husband does not always agree with me and vice versa. So if either one of us sees wash wear of any kind we get rid of it. As we both have learned what one person considers wash wear another may not. We know looking good means feeling good, and that only comes from quality control.
We know style matters too so we strive to have nothing but the latest name brands, latest fashion trends, even a few retro throwback styles, and classic favorites that everyone loves to wear. We only keep in stock clothing that is new with tags, new without tags, or like new items. Any of our items that we deem pre-owned or in gently used condition is clothing that looks like it has never been worn although could have been washed once. We like to keep items moving out the door and outdated styles just sit on a store shelf. By hand selecting our inventory this helps us keep in style items available directly to you. With us having strict standards that we inspect our items for we keep a smaller volume of inventory, although we are always on the lookout for too good to pass up deals.
Some Of The Things We Look Out For
Shirt Snag
This always happens to our favorite shirts, they catch onto something and before you know it we pull back on the material and create snag! This is just one blemish that is really not one that can’t be fixed. They are the easiest damages to spot.
Balling
Clothing Defects & Understanding The Lingo!
Balling, something that looks like small balls of lint that sticks to clothing from the previous rub wear while garment being worn. What actually is happening is the fabric wearing out, breaking down of its material layers from heavy wash and wear life of the garment. This can occur in the crotch of dress slacks, lightweight pants, cotton items, armpit areas of certain materials, and certain sweaters will shed the balling effect just after one washing. The manufacturers care label of every item really does count!
Washer Takes A Bite On Cotton
Some of the new thinner lightweight cottons are getting holes right from inside of a washer machine. All it takes is one stress line within the new lighter material and it doesn't take long for the washing machine to start to pull the material apart.
Useful Wear Life
Do you know when it’s time to retire the favorite pair of jeans or other favorite piece of clothing from use? If any of these wear indicators appear, you know what you have to do it’s time to retire them.
We retire old clothes from use if the clothing:
Is torn, ripped, threadbare or frayed around the edges (see images below).
Is stained with a flammable substance that cannot be removed through laundering (see image on right above). If exposed to flame or electric arc, flammable soil could ignite and continue to burn – even though the garment itself won’t burn.
Has had contact with bleach.
Has any kind of yellowing in the collar, or underarm areas. This is usually perspiration stains from heavy sweating and nothing gets that stain out.
Has a frayed collar, frayed cuffs or torn, open or frayed seams (see images below).
What We Do Keep
NWT & NWOT WHAT?
Any item that is new with tags is abbreviated into NWT's. Some items are listed as NWOT which is shorthand for new without tags.
Some Are Meant To Look That Way
A style that never seems to be "out" is the distressed look which can be from anything like the ripped up look to the faded vintage look. Then there is the acid wash where colors look streaked. Distressed clothing is actually made by manufacturers. Jeans and Tee shirts now have this modern style!
Gently Pre-owned
There is a lot of good quality clothing that is in gently used condition that has been worn previously. Gently pre-owned clothing to our standards are items that look like they have been worn once although not more than four times previously. The pieces of used clothing do not have color fading or appear fuzzy, they are stain free, with no missing buttons, no rips or tears, no holes, no seam wear, no snags, no wash wear, free of hem wear, and free of bad odors! Gently used clothing items that has fair use wear meaning the item has a lot of quality wear life left is something that we consider for our inventory.
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