In recent years, there has been a rise in the popularity of second-hand clothing amongst the younger generation. Why is this happening? Do you think it’s a positive or negative development?

In my opinion, the rising popularity of second-hand has a lot of reasons why
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is happening. Teenagers and kids buy attire and other things from second-hand stores cause they don’t have enough cash for new
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, second-hand has a cheap prices for sportswear, so they could save their money for something else. Of course, that’s their business where they are supposed to update their wardrobe with the new sportswear, but still buying from second-hand has different results. From the positive results, we can mention saving. Nowadays, people have to deal with inflation , which is just rising and doesn’t stop. That makes the price of different goods higher and more expensive. Second-hand accounted for a coefficient
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bigger than it used to be in the past, nowadays. The main reason for the biggest number of customers is inflation, so they just wanted to save more money for their own good. From the negative results, we can get health problems like an infection or something else, but usually workers who work in second-hand clean
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sometimes workers could clean new attire without any quality, and just put them in the showcase. A customer who would like to own a new sweater or pants could buy it and didn’t realise that his new
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are nasty. After that, he could get an infection or itch , and an ambulance would take him to the hospital. Usually, the younger generations have different reasons to buy goods from the second-hand
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when they are living in villages or places without any normal stores.
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, for a poor society which just can’t afford
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of better quality. Shops, which are similar to second-hand can sell not just clothing, though. They are selling food, electronic things, plates, cups, toys and else.

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