http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/ms-offers-cash-for-unwanted-clothes.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:38:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/ms-offers-cash-for-unwanted-clothes.html/comment-page-1#comment-59481 Secondhand Pepe | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:58:52 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/ms-offers-cash-for-unwanted-clothes.html#comment-59481 [...] Clothing swaps are fun for closet purging on the cheap, but secondhand clothes are a real necessity for much of the population. In Haiti, there’s a whole industry that revolves around used clothing. The clothes, the markets that sell them, the industry, and the vendors are all known as “pepe.” Clothes have flowed from the US to Haiti since the 1960s, but the origin of secondhand shopping goes much further. “Secondhand (Pepe)” is a 24 minute trilingual documentary film that explores the role of secondhand clothes in diaspora countries, from the Eastern European immigrant Jews in the early 1900s to the function of “pepe” in contemporary Haitian culture and economy. [...] [...] Clothing swaps are fun for closet purging on the cheap, but secondhand clothes are a real necessity for much of the population. In Haiti, there’s a whole industry that revolves around used clothing. The clothes, the markets that sell them, the industry, and the vendors are all known as “pepe.” Clothes have flowed from the US to Haiti since the 1960s, but the origin of secondhand shopping goes much further. “Secondhand (Pepe)” is a 24 minute trilingual documentary film that explores the role of secondhand clothes in diaspora countries, from the Eastern European immigrant Jews in the early 1900s to the function of “pepe” in contemporary Haitian culture and economy. [...]

]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/ms-offers-cash-for-unwanted-clothes.html/comment-page-1#comment-12270 tarek ali Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:56:11 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/01/ms-offers-cash-for-unwanted-clothes.html#comment-12270 my name is tarek im interested in having a recycle clothes business how much would you pay for a truck load of recycle clothes by the pound or container im in the U.S im soon as you can thanks my name is tarek im interested in having a recycle clothes business how much would you pay for a truck load of recycle clothes by the pound or container im in the U.S im soon as you can thanks

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