Everyone knows that when you receive a compliment on a garment purchased second-hand for a fraction of its retail value, you do not say “thank you”. Rather, you stop in your tracks, strike a subtle pose and declare proudly, “charity shop!”.
It would be unthinkable, in a country as fearful of public displays of spending as Britain, to pass the article off as new. A charity find makes us feel like a sartorial Artemis, a hunter who found treasure where others saw only trash.
Lately, this prideful clucking has been heard around London, New York and the rest of the Netflix-streaming world. Thanks to the platform’s new series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, charity shops are awesome right now.