Real leather jackets used to be easy to find on the racks of Central Florida thrift stores, but in the wake of a new trend called fast fashion, only a plastic-feeling faux leather remains. Fast fashion is a business model based on mass-producing clothing items at a low cost. These items are often poorly made…

If you’re like me, you probably spent the vast majority of the last three days clicking back and forth between the seemingly endless number of sales that kicked off on Black Friday (and well before). But now that Cyber Monday has arrived, it’s bringing even more deals with it, and Target’s huge sale on clothing,…

In France, les soldes (sale season) only takes place twice a year: in early January and summer. Since moving to Paris, the one thing I miss most about the U.S. is how sales are shopping celebrations sprinkled throughout the year. Enter: Cyber Monday, a Black Friday alternative we can take advantage of all around the…