Discount Shopping in LA
Angelenos pay a premium for most essentials; many of us routinely spend 50% of our monthly income to rent living spaces amounting to little more than refrigerator cartons. With bars on the windows. So what keeps us from acknowledging defeat and fleeing back to the middle of the country, where the cost of living is much lower? Just a little something known as the world's finest discount shopping. Here's a brief guide to finding the designer clothes you covet at prices that won't leave you working the corner of Santa Monica and Normandie.
It's a Wrap
12237 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Now with two branches, the original in Burbank and a second on south Robertson, It's a Wrap sells discarded clothes from the sets of movies and TV shows, often identified … according to who wore them in what. If you've ever wanted to dress like Susan Lucci -- and really, who wouldn't? -- then this is your new headquarters. [link]
Nordstrom Rack
6081 Center Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 641-4046
Much like Loehmann's, Nordstrom Rack sells new clothes at slashed prices -- in this case, all the overstock from the Nordstrom stores in the area. Unlike Loehmann's, the … Stuff You'd Actually Wear quotient is quite high at the Rack, and your principle problem will probably be finding too many things too quickly. Great shoe department as well. [link]
Crossroads
6671 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Crossroads is essentially a resale shop with a little bit of everything: fancy designer dresses next to plain cotton t-shirts, Prada shoes crammed in alongside Camper … boots. Men's clothing is represented as well, though not as heavily. And Crossroads miraculously escapes smelling like a thrift store, so you can almost convince yourself that you're getting something new. (Almost.) [link]
Armani Wells Men's Resale
12404 Ventura Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 91604
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