Shopping

Exploring sustainable shopping in Alamance County

By George C. Mikkelsen 5 months ago

Sustainable fashion has made its way into stores in recent years. This sort of fashion can consist of clothing made with environmentally friendly materials such as organic cotton,  repurposed materials and any other sort of clothing made to last long. Fortunately for Elon University, there are some local businesses offering sustainable options. 

Elon U Thrift

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Elon U Thrift is a consignment shop founded by junior Jakob Reuter and senior Grace Granger. The shop originally started as a class assignment in 2020 for their ENT 2500 course, Creativity & The Doer/Maker Mindset. After the class ended, the two chose to continue with the project.

Elon U Thrift is a consignment shop founded by junior Jakob Reuter and senior Grace Granger. The shop originally  started as a class assignment in 2020 for their ENT 2500 course, Creativity & The Doer/Maker Mindset. After the class ended, the

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Cross Platform Digital Fashion Shopping Mall for the Complete Metaverse Wearable Industry By BTC Peers

By George C. Mikkelsen 6 months ago

Cross Platform Digital Fashion Shopping Mall for the Complete Metaverse Wearable Industry

The concept of the metaverse, though not new, has taken on a completely new meaning in the past few months, thanks to the merging of virtual living with blockchain. For the first time, people willing to spend their time in virtual and augmented realities can now truly own their assets, the credit going to the swift adoption of NFTs.

Although fashion in the metaverse is a young industry today, there seems to be a gap in converting real-world fashion for the metaverse. This is where the MetaWear | The Fashion Bridge comes in.

Bridging the Whole Fashion Industry with Metaverse

What will you wear in the metaverse is a question that has been asked by MetaWear since its inception, a question that has also been recently asked by The New York Times, Forbes, GQ and other top business

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8 of the best online shopping sites in Saudi Arabia to bookmark now

By George C. Mikkelsen 6 months ago



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They deliver right to your doorstep, too…

Convenience is one of the best benefits of online shopping, and that’s precisely what you’ll get with these stores. Whether you want to browse the latest fashion launches or you’ve been wanting to get a new smartphone, find everything you need at one of these sites.

Abyat

There may be a lot of furniture and home décor to sift through here, but there are standout pieces at Abyat waiting to be found. Its sophisticated collections make it easy to plan your dream décor and order right from your laptop. Bonus: Sales happen regularly, so you can find everything you could possibly want for the indoors or outdoors for up to 70 per cent off. Oh, and Abyat offers free shipping and installation.

Visit: abyat.com

Amazon

Everyone loves Amazon; it is the giant of online shopping. Since the launch of a

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Brace yourself for the human-free shopping revolution

By George C. Mikkelsen 7 months ago

The Daily Telegraph recently reviewed Boutiques by Lucien Boucher, a volume of lithographs of Parisian shopfronts published in 1925 and reissued by The Mainstone Press. It records a world poised at a moment of change, as reflected in its high street shopfronts. A grisly ensemble of prosthetic limbs in the Bandagiste’s window recalls the enduring devastation of the First World War, while a jaunty constellation of gramophone horns looks forward to the jazz age.

In 1938, at another moment of flux, Eric Ravilious published High Street, his own lithographic record of the British high street. More than 80 years on, his vision of the urban high street survives, despite the creep of coffee bars and fashion chains, in market towns across the land.

But for how much longer? In January 1948, the first British supermarket opened and self-service shopping was born. Now technology is poised to eliminate both queuing at

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