Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Chemitei Janet. Chemitei Is an environmentalist and slow fashion educator based in Kenya. She does storytelling and educational work in sustainable waste management for organizations like Greenpeace Africa, Clean Up Kenya, and Threading Change, and her mission is to highlight the reality of waste and the fashion industry in Kenya. 

On today’s show, we talk about how Chemitei got into secondhand clothing, her love of crochet, and the incredible local upcycling community in her area. Plus, we unpack the challenges of sustainable waste management in and around Gikomba market in Nairobi – Chemitei believes the market brings into perspective the reality of overproduction and overconsumption in the fashion industry and it is important that everyone sees what really happens to clothes that end up in countries where they’re not necessarily needed.

I really loved getting to speak with her and learn more about sustainability from her point of view – I think you’re going to really enjoy this episode, so let’s dive right into it! 

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [4:05] Chemitei’s experiences with fashion and the secondhand market growing up.
• [11:58] The different kinds of secondhand markets she visited in Kenya over the years.
• [14:57] Whether she knew it or not, Chemitei grew up with a lot of sustainability values from her family.
• [30:47] Why there is so much secondhand clothing in Kenya today.
• [33:40] The Changing Markets Trashion Report, and how the state of the secondhand clothing in Kenya has changed. Today, 20–50% of the used-clothing in bales they buy is unsellable due to poor quality.
• [52:31] The upcycling community in and around Gikomba market and throughout Nairobi. 
• [1:05:00] The most cherished pieces in Chemitei’s closet. 

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• Chemitei Janet
• Gikomba Market in Nairobi
• Trashion Report by Clean Up Kenya and Changing Markets Foundation
• Rummage Studio
• Africa Collect Textiles
• Mabatini Studio
• 25SW4P

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod 

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Lindsey of Fat & Habitat. Fat & Habitat sells plus size vintage clothing in and around the Northeast. Run by Lindsey and her husband Alex, Fat & Habitat has a focus on sustainable materials and quality construction. Their mission is to provide underrepresented folks of the plus size community fashionable, timeless clothing. 

Lindsey and I chat about her background in fashion, and love of quality clothing, which sparked the vision to bring inclusivity to the vintage community via Fat & Habitat, and what that means to her. I really loved getting to meet Lindsey and Alex at the Manhattan Vintage Show – they were incredibly kind! – and we talk about all this and more on today’s show, so let’s dive right into it! 

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [2:05] Lindsey has always been a fashion-lover, and started making clothes for her Barbie dolls when she was just five-years-old.
• [3:12] This translated into reworking clothes for her own closet.
• [6:55] She moved to LA for college, and to fulfill her dream of working in fashion.
• [15:03] The decision to officially open her vintage business, after selling casually on Poshmark for several years. 
• [17:57] What it means to them to be able to offer inclusivity at vintage fashion events via Fat & Habitat.
• [21:16] The vintage brands and styles that have become Fat & Habitat’s specialities. 
• [36:50] Debunking the “people were just smaller back then” myth.
• [41:14] Fat & Habitat’s first NYC show!
• [46:42] Lindsey’s most cherished pieces in her vintage collection.

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• Fat & Habitat
• Little City Thrift
• Manhattan Vintage Show
• Pre-Loved Podcast episode about vintage Coach
• Thova Vintage
• The Thicket Worcester
• Femme & Nest
• @indigostylevintage
• Sheryl from Indigo Style Vintage on Pre-Loved Podcast
• Top Shelf Vintage
• Divine Times Vintage

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Rosie Mae Turner, a sustainable fashion creative and vintage fashion archivist based in NYC. It’s hard to sum up all of Rosie’s work in the sustainable fashion space – she is a sustainable swimwear designer, a textile artist, an archivist – as I mentioned – an editorial stylist, community builder, and much more! 

Always a lover of printed matter, particularly vintage fashion magazines, Rosie has recently started showcasing her archive of vintage and contemporary fashion magazines, and we get into all that and more on today’s show! 

If you love special collections, you’re going to love hearing Rosie talk about her vintage magazines, so let’s dive right into it! 

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [2:31] Rosie’s journey into fashion, through a love of fashion magazines.
• [6:37] Rosie grew up antiquing in high school, and has been building her vintage archive ever since.
• [12:20] She even picked up a few fashion finds from the set of Gossip Girl.
• [14:23] The beginning of her vintage magazine collection.
• [25:17] Some of the themes that Rosie is drawn to in fashion magazines.
• [28:57] Her cat-themed collections, in magazines and fashion!
• [33:17] What we can learn about sustainability from vintage fashion magazines.
• [38:06] Taking the Remake #NoNewClothes Challenge
• [47:36] Some of the most cherished pieces in her collection.

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• Rosie Mae on Instagram
• Rosie Mae on TikTok
• Rosie’s Magazines
• Rosina Mae swimwear
• What Goes Around Comes Around
• Manhattan Vintage Show
• Buy Nothing Group
• Rosie’s favorite magazine shops in NYC
• Kinokuniya 
• Magazine Cafe
• Casa Magazines
• Soho News International
• Recylpt - Circular Fashion Playground
• Climate Cafe
• @meowrunway
• Remake
• #NoNewClothes Challenge
• Rosie’s bag upcycle
• FABSCRAP
• Pre-Loved Podcast with FABSCARAP
• Rosie’s NYC vintage shop recommendations
• EstateSales.Net on Pre-Loved Podcast
• Liisa of Gem Search on Pre-Loved Podcast
• Sustainable Baddie
• No Kill Magazine
• Reverie Page Magazine

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod 

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Pily, a Chilean researcher and journalist with over a decade of experience in the sustainable fashion space, working with Latin American magazines and work with sustainable brands and secondhand platforms internationally.

María Pilar, who goes by Pily, is currently doing a Masters degree in the Netherlands, and is deeply involved in creating investigative journalistic articles centered around the theme of migration and clothing. 

She shares her perspective on sustainable fashion and what she thinks is missing from the conversation. We discuss what it means that Chile is one of the biggest importers of secondhand clothing in South America and the impact it had on the local community, as well as her recent research on clothing and migration at the US-Mexico.

 —  all this and more on today’s show, so dive right into it! 

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [3:42] Growing up in Chile, Pily was never a huge fashion lover, but she has shopped secondhand most of her life. 
• [5:44] She started reporting on – what used to be called – “green lifestyles” in the early days of her journey. 
• [7:55] Pily’s perspective on sustainable fashion and what she thinks is missing from the standard conversation. 
• [18:15] Chile is one of the biggest importers of secondhand clothing in South America, and this has had a major impact on the community in the north of the country, in the Atacama Desert.
•  [28:25] In her most recent research on clothing and migration, conducted at the US-Mexico border, Pily found the stories to be about human realities. 
• [37:13] The pre-loved clothes (and Chilean designers!) that Pily values.

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• @pily.uribe
• Fashion Revolution Chile
• Beatriz O’Brien Madrid at Fashion Revolution Chile
• Bastián Díaz Orellana
• Used clothing waste in the Atacama Desert
• Textile waste in Atacama Desert is visible from space
• United Nations study underway regarding regulation of these issues
• Lupe Gajardo
• Elisa De Cordova
• Francisca Gajardo

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod 

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Charlotte, the founder of leading luxury aftercare and pre-loved retailer, The Handbag Clinic.

The Handbag Clinic is a fully-circular platform tackling end-of-life issues from pre-loved buying, selling, and authenticating, to restoration. The story of how Charlotte got started flipping handbags on eBay when she was just sixteen years old is really fascinating, and she has so much expertise on restoration, as one of the leading and longest lasting services in the luxury resale space.

Tune in for all her incredible stories from 10 years of The Handbag Clinic, everything from working on Claudia Schiffer’s vintage pieces, to restoring Birkin bags that got nibbled on by a puppy!

 — we chat about all this and more on today’s show, so dive right into it! 

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [2:39] How Charlotte got into secondhand fashion as a way to access designer brands – for a deal! – as a teenager. 
• [8:18] How Handbag Clinic started out of Charlotte’s love for flipping bags. 
• [11:35] Both restoration and reselling are at the heart of the Handbag Clinic. 
• [15:22] On becoming an expert in the authentication of luxury and designer goods. 
• [18:53] The rise of “superfakes” in the luxury handbag market. 
• [21:38] How the luxury resale and aftercare services space has changed in the 10+ years of Handbag Clinic. 
• [27:48] Some of the leather restoration specialty techniques and innovations of the Handbag Clinic team.
• [35:15] Some of the most extreme repairs the Handbag Clinic team has tackled.
• [41:03] The rarest and most special bags that have come through the Handbag Clinic. 

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• The Handbag Clinic
• @thehandbagclinic
• The Mulberry Bayswater
• The RealReal on Pre-Loved Podcast
• Rebag
• The Claudia Schiffer vintage Chanel vanity cases

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod 

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Kelley Heyer, a New York City based actor and content creator, who loves secondhand fashion and a good DIY. 

She’s gone viral for thrift flipping vintage dresses, and she’s passionate about helping people find their personal style and with vintage clothes — and we chat about all this and more on today’s show, so dive right into it! 

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [2:50] Growing up spending time in her school’s theater costume department. 
• [5:18] Thrifting in  Hawai'i, where Kelley grew up. 
• [12:16] How Kelley does – and doesn’t! – take style inspiration from others. 
• [16:07] Reflections on sustainability, and how we want to incorporate sustainable fashion and encourage others to do the same.
• [22:26] Stories from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel costume department.
• [25:09] Tips for becoming a more savvy thrifter.
• [30:48] Kelley’s ideal Brooklyn thrifting day.
• [34:11] Modernizing vintage, and the thrift flip that made Kelley go viral.
• [43:06] On her clown-inspired styling era.
• [46:15] Some of Kelley’s favorite and most special vintage pieces.

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• @kelleyheyer
• Kelley Heyer on TikTok
• Barrio Vintage
• Buffalo Exchange
• Beacon’s Closet
• Broad City episode at Beacon’s Closet
• Stylist, Lindsey Hartman
• L Train Vintage
• Regeneration
• Seitan’s Helper - sandwich shop
• Drew Barrymore Ever After dress
• Ever After dresses at auction
• Kelley’s birthday dress upcycle
• McCalls vintage sewing patterns
• The photoshoot in Kelley’s great-grandma’s dress
• Lenox Spice Village
• @menswearsoph

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod 

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Meg Meg Randell, Head of Designer Handbags and Fashion at Bonham’s auction house. Bonham’s is one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques, and Meg joined in 2020, to launch their fashion and handbags department. 

On today’s episode, we chat about the wild world of auctions, and some of Meg’s most famed auction sales, including a Birkin bag that belonged to Jane Birkin herself, and the costumes from the TV Show, The Crown.

Meg has such interesting stories to share, and much expertise in rare handbags, particularly Hermès and Chanel, and we get into all of that on today’s show, so dive right into it! 

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [3:27] Meg’s background in the history of art, and how she got her start working in auction houses.
• [6:41] Meg’s transition into the fashion segment of the auction house. 
• [13:30] The booming demand for handbags within the auction space. 
• [18:48] The auction process 101 – all the steps and terminology you may not know if this is your first auction.
• [22:09] When the bid runs much higher than the estimated price.
• [26:07] Selling one of Jane Birkin’s very-own Birkin bags at auction.
• [31:26] Some of the incredible vintage Chanel bags Meg has sold over the years.
• [39:45] The massive Bonhams auction of all the costumes and props from The Crown.
• [48:45] Meg’s dream piece to find for auction one day.

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• Bonhams
• Bonhams (@bonhams1793)
• Jane Birkin’s Birkin bag, which Meg sold at auction
• V&A Museum handbag exhibition
• V&A showing the vintage Chanel suit and hat
• V&A Chanel exhibition (on now!)
• Classic Coco
• The Bonhams Crown Auction
• Louis Vuitton by Marc Jacobs Tribute Patchwork Tote

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod 

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!On today’s show, we’re chatting with David, the founder of Honeymoon Antiques and new owner of the Sturbridge Show. David’s business Honeymoon Antiques has been a New York City fashion and design staple since1997. And he has some really fun stories to share with us about his year’s in the industry and how the vintage scene has changed. 

In 2022, David purchased the storied Sturbridge Show, which happens three times each year in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, the Monday before Brimfield. Sturbridge Show is a unique offeirng of antique & vintage clothing, textiles, quilts, workwear, and jewelry spanning the Victorian era to the 1990s. 

This fall, David brought the Sturbridge Show to New York City for the first time, and it’s returning for it’s spring city show this weekend – if you’re listening to this live – March 14th-16th. 

We had a blast with all of David’s stories in this one, so let’s get right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [4:50] David’s decision to open his first store in New York in the 1990s. 
• [12:36] What the East Village vintage clothing scene was like in the 90s. 
• [19:13] David’s transition into becoming the promoter of the Sturbridge Show.
• [ 24:39] About the Sturbridge Show and Brimfield Antique Market in Massachusetts.
• [30:18] The Sturbridge Show comes to NYC! 
• [37:26] When the people you buy clothing from bring you magic and good luck!

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• Honeymoon Antiques
• The Sturbridge Show
• Sturbridge Show dates
• Beads of Paradise in NYC
• Retro101 / Cherry Bomb Vintage in St. Louis
• Retro 101 on Pre-Loved Podcast
• New York Magazine excerpt from 1999
• Margiela Couture 2024 show
• Brimfield Antiques Show
• Maria Niforos
• Susan Simon Antique Textiles
• Jane Lury's Labors of Love
• Orlando Vintage
• Mitchell Palm Springs
• Style4Vintage
• Buzz Vintage 
• Tea Street Vintage
• Superette Vintage
• Birds and Skyline
• 22 Print Studio
• Metropolis Vintage in Albany
• Eveliina Vintage
• Anastasia’s Star Closet
• Western Gifts
• No Kill Magazine Story 
• All the NYC Vintage Dealers
• @clawmoney

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod 

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Melissa, you may know her online as Mel Wore It! Mel is a Toronto-based graphic designer and part time content creator, juggling her creative endeavors with the joys of motherhood. 

She loves thrifting and shopping secondhand, and she unpacks the joys and journeys of her sustainable living practices online on TikTok and Instagram. On this episode, we chat a lot about the personal style journey, and what choosing secondhand has taught Mel about herself, plus some of the sustainability resolutions and practices she’s put in place to help her keep continuing to improve her shopping habits. 

Really loved having this conversation, and I know you’re going to find it super interesting too, so let’s dive right in!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [3:38] How Mel’s love of pop culture and playing dress up influenced her interest in fashion growing up.
• [7:24] Mel’s journey with secondhand shopping really took off after her son was born.
• [11:50] On Mel’s personal style journey.
• [17:37] On slow and sustainable fashion resolutions and tracking the cost per wear of items in your closet.
• [27:12] Deciding when it’s the right time to let something go, and how that can make you feel.
• [30:46] Shopping for designer goods on Japanese eBay, and the best handbags she’s found.
• [34:38] Finding – and repairing! – a vintage Lady Di bag from the 90s.
• [37:02] Finding a faux Hermès bag in the thrift store, and the process of having it authenticated.

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• @melworeit (Instagram)
• @melworeit (TikTok)
• Avril Lavigne on SNL in 2003
• @oldloserinbrooklyn
• Kate of @readwritethrift
• Kate on Pre-Loved Podcast
• Whering
• @christina.mychas
• For the Love of Luxury (authentication service)
• @estellemuzic on TikTok
• @albertarose
• Alberta Rose on Pre-Loved Podcast

LET’S CONNECT: 

• 📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
• 🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
• 📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/ 
• 🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod 

SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
• Lucero Buendia
• Tricia Zelazny
• Leslie V.
• Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
• Lydia Welp
• Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
• Michael A.
• Megan Morris

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Meagan Svendsen, a Vintage Coach Bag Restorer & Collector. Meagan learned the love of vintage hunting and restoration from her mom who taught her every technique in the book. After losing her mom unexpectedly in 2021, and finding her first vintage Coach bag “in the wild” Meagan began collecting and restoring over 400 vintage Coach bags. 

On this episode, we dive into the rich history of the Coach brand, including some background on Bonnie Cashin, the bags she designed, and the legacy that still holds today. Ultimately, Meagan loves vintage Coach because of the quality of the vintage leather, which is truly meant to last. As a restorer and collector, it’s her goal to breathe new life into vintage bags, and she shares some of her best tips and tricks.

This episode is a really fun deep dive, so let’s get right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [3:08] Meagan grew up antiquing, and restoring old things alongside her mother.
• [8:01] The history of the Coach brand, starting as a family-owned leather goods brand in the early 1960s.
• [9:53] The story of Bonnie Cashin, the original creative director for Coach in the 1960s, who brought the infamous turnlock to the brand.
• [16:25] Meagan’s goal with restoration: bring the bag back to its best condition, with the least invasive technique.
• [17:28] The story of some of the rarest Coach bags, like the United Airlines Coach stewardess bag, or the Coach Federal bag (rumored to be gifts from President Nixon, according to clippings from October 21, 1972 from The Indianapolis Star).
• [24:38] Prior to 1994, there’s a process of elimination of clues to date and name your Coach bag. After that time, the Coach creed utilizes an alpha-numerical system.
• [27:41] All about the different colors of Coach bags – some of the rare colors, and how color impacts your cleaning process.
• [31:47] A deep dive into leather handbag restoration.
• [42:43] Some of the most special stories of pieces in Meagan’s collection, like her 1966 ‘See Thru Shopping Bag’ and her Coach Crescent collection, in every known color! 

EPISODE MENTIONS: 

• @vintagecoachrestore
• https://www.tiktok.com/@meagansvendsen
• Coach runway collections on Vogue Runway
• Bonnie Cashin and the Coach turnlock
• Bonnie Cashin for Coach - Hasp bag
• Bonnie Cashin interior lining
• The Coach United Airlines stewardess bag
• Coach Federal bag
• 1990s Coach Winnie - style #9023
• Meagan’s LinkTree
• Vintage Coach catalogs 1960-2020
• Rachel @vintagecoachie
• Website for dating 1960s-70s Coach (coming soon!)
• Coach: The Story of New York Cool book and trailer
• Leather CPR for moisturizing 
• Cleaning mold from your vintage leather goods - EC3 from Microbalance
• Meagan’s vintage Coach Courier bag that required a lot of rehab!
• Facebook group for Coach authentication
• Bonnie Cashin  ‘See Thru Shopping Bag’ from 1966
• Meagan’s Coach Crescent collection in every known color, including one in white and navy that she never knew existed! 
• Maui Mood Swing Vintage

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SPECIAL THANKS: 

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

• Patty Weber
• Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
• Danny of Galaxy Live
• Kathy Brand
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• Tricia Zelazny
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• Lucille of Galipette Vintage
• KT 
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