A Fashion Education at St. Louis’s Rag-O-Rama

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'During the week, I was an English major with a minor in Social Thought and Analysis; on the weekends, I was fashion judge, jury, and executioner.' One Vogue editor remembers the now-shuttered St. Louis outpost of Rag-O-Rama.

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Being able to dig through piles of used clothing and emerge with such a treasure—the kind of find that could easily sell for $250 or more at a Tokyo vintage store—is equal parts luck, skill, and instinct. And to work at the now-shuttered St. Louis outpost of the legendary Midwestern Buy-Sell-Trade store, Rag-O-Rama, which was located a few blocks from the off-campus apartment I moved into as a sophomore at Washington University, it was also a job requirement.

 

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