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A NEW YEAR ALWAYS PRESENTS A TEMPTING opportunity to overhaul ourselves – our bodies, our values, our style – but in 2019 the phrase “overhaul” took on a far more literal meaning. The release of the Tidying Up With Marie Kondo documentary on Netflix in January turned millions of women into decluttering insurgents. We began to feverishly throw our shoe collections into charity bins or gut our sweater drawers in hopes of unearthing a better, happier and, yes, more stylish version of ourselves. But Kondo-style wardrobe cleansing was only the latest in a string of phenomena that suggests women are drastically rethinking the way we consume fashion.
Arguably, this all started with resale websites. While people have long been buying and selling their clothes on eBay and on market stalls, sites like
