Adriana Rodríguez Morquecho only regrets one thing, of selling that velvet joint dress with animal print texture, that specific garment hurt him because after the sale he learned that Kim Kardashian had used it and also to finish off, it was his size.

"I am lucky to find designer clothes, so I together and make a special sale of such garments, you can find from Italian assho -back pants of the rent to an Armani shirt," says Adriana, the owner of the owner ofOne of Facebook's largest bazaars: Loleeta Haze.

Adriana's bazaar is 3 years old and on a normal Saturday, up to 100 people go to him.Loleeta Haze has her position outside the facilities of the Chabacano Metro, where she had to leave because the police no longer allowed her to sell in the transford, as well as other bazaars.

Pocket stories

The owner of Loleeta Haze is easily distinguished, wears retro clothes and all clients ask if there are garments like the one that brings for the next update.In addition, she is an expert in type of fabric, cuts, prices, marks and trends.

“Each garment tells you the story of its previous owner," Quizá liked to go to the movies - I think that when they leave tickets in the bags, I found some super old men.But nothing impacts me more than wedding dresses.There are people who keep that dress for a lifetime.But I have found dresses that were never used, perhaps for a love disappointment, ”speculates Adriana Michelle.

Buying a second -hand garment will always be somehow to bring the story of someone else on you, but why do these bazaars care about science?

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Bazaes care about science

"There is nothing more sustainable than what already exists," says Maria Fernanada Leduc, the fashion expert and general manager of Luv.it, a platform created to guide the sustainable change.Second -hand clothes is that, something that already exists and that can have another life from rethinking, redesigning or redefining.

“What we advise are small changes, which make great difference.We recommend experimenting and transforming your garments.Get out of treasures in second -hand stores.Learn to make basic arrangements.Lave only when necessary, dry outdoor clothes and not in dryer, it lasts longer.Armen a closet of iconic basics and not of rapid trends, ”says Leduc.

Take advantage of the life of 100 % garments reduces up to 400 % carbon emissions that the fashion industry generates.The bazaars not only give a second life to clothes, but they take advantage of it until the last sigh.

Adriana's bazaar edits shirts and turn them into Crop Tops, for example.Another case is that of Olivo Bazar Green, “here we distinguish ourselves by giving special treatment to clothes, we fix the defects, we transform it so that it can be useful,” says Maria Naranjo Collado.In addition, the remaining fabric pieces are used to decorate covers or bags.

Olivo Bazar Green began on Instagram earlier this year due to pandemic, but grows by leaps and bounds.The most vintage garment of this bazaar was a blouse of the 20s, white with lace and bulky sleeves."I bought it in another bazaar, and I relied it on mine," explains Naranjo.

The bazaars do not compete with each other, they are bought with each other for personal or resale use, so that they have created community, they take care of each other when they deliver or even warn of conflicting or fraudulent buyers.

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How long will your clothes be on the planet?

All the bazaars with which Tec Review spoke are aware that the fashion industry is the second most polluting in the world, according to UN conference and development conference data (UNCTAD).

150 million tons of clothing and shoes are sold annually worldwide.And for every kilo of these garments, there are more 23 kilos of greenhouse gas.But pollution does not end there, the synthetic fabrics with which most fast fashion brands work for many years will break down, for example, lycra can last on the planet up to 200 years, while natural fabrics such as linenThey degrade in 2 weeks, according to data from Luv.it.

Second hand: higher quality

Maricela Ramírez Brindis does an exceptional job.She looks for second -hand clothes in all places where it is possible.Know Mexican brands perfectly and they are the ones that most celebrate, "Mexican clothing has an incomparable quality, fabrics do not wear out, the color does not end and the texture lets your skin breathe," said Maricela, owner ofBruz Bruz, one of Instagram's most popular bazaars.

The quality that Bruja Baza celebrates has an explanation: “A generation behind, our parents still bought fabrics and went to the dressmaker to make clothes, we no longer touched us.It makes one or two generations only nationally consumed and those clothes were made with natural fabrics and the productions were small, so the items were of higher quality.Today brands produce in excess so that natural fabrics are insufficient, so they use synthetic fabrics that allow them to control mass production, ”says Leduc, fashion specialist.

Maricela has bought second -hand clothes because her family has a very rooted interest in the environment.The responsible consumption that Bruja Bazar encourages also highlights the details "I have made a little expert in cuts, I am a lover of the buttons and labels, I take care of the garments as if they were for me, the wash, placho and repair," says Ramírez.

One of the stories that most treasures the owner of Bruja Bazar is a silver belt that got an occasion that was being supplied.“When I saw it, I fell in love, I had planned to sell it, but the Lord told me his story.I was 30 years old trying to sell it and it was from her mother, the story conquered me and is mine.For me it has enough value, because it belonged to someone who loved, ”says Maricela.

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New clothes are dirty

“I know people who buy Fast Fashion clothes to wear it only in an event and return it, and all sweat.By that I mean that "new" clothes are dirty, we don't know how many hands it has passed.Instead, second -hand clothes are selected, repaired, washed, scented, ironed, folded and wrapped as if it were a gift.It is not dirty, nor has bed bugs, and fleas, ”says Brenda Salas Hernández, owner of Bazar Bash, a business with thousands of followers.

When you buy fast fashion brands you are giving your money to foreign companies, but when you buy from bazaver you help the planet, your pocket and someone else's, “thanks to your purchase I paid my dentist, another girl more her school, her school, her school, her school,They help families who were left without work in the pandemic.There are girls who stay alone from the bazaar or keep their whole family, ”says Brenda.

When buying in bazares there is better treatment: “The girls entrust me to their complexes, for example if they are filled or very high, they ask me if the garment is left or not and I am the most transparent.I measure and tell them the truth and never hid if the garments have some detail, ”says Bazar Bash owner.

Jim Edgar Valdez Paredes recently released Axolotl's skin, and is one of the few men of bazaars.He distinguishes himself by making his struggle against Fast Fashion very clear.

Jim also does Drag and some of his character's garments are on the sale in his bazaar, some of them witnessed the large Drag-Queen dance competitions, “clothing does not have a genre, they can use what they feel comfortableAnd in my bazaar they will find that, ”says Valdez.

Some other bazaars organize barter of clothing every fifteen days, this is the case of Palmera Project, “we are an ecological and feminist platform that seeks to revolutionize consumption so that we do not continue damaging the environment and so that we no longer accept the inhuman working conditions ofThe fashion industry.This project seeks to recycle and re-use what we no longer use in order to create a conscious community and a resistance group, ”explains Ana Karen Jiménez Buerón, founder of the project.

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BAZARES: SUSTAINABLE WHERE YOU SEE THEM

The bazaars do not use plastic, all their wraps are compostable, some make their recycled paper and seed cards, as is the case with Olivo Bazar green, this thanks for your purchase can be sown and you will get for example, a green tomato.

Most bazaars deliver in the Metro, a collective transport that generates a much more effective reduction in the use of private transport and therefore the emission of gases such as nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, volatile organic compounds and alsoMacroparticles

“You should not leave the subway to receive your article, so you only spend a subway ticket.I offer my followers of food and economic and sustainable masks, ”says Debora González, owner of Pitipu Bazarrr.

The bazaars offer economic clothes and also, the possibility of helping more than one, for example "Pitipu Bazar Bazar supports other girls who need money, give me their clothes and helped them sell them," says Debora González.

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It's not about stopping by Fast Fashion

We all dress and heal, and although buying in Bazaes is friendly to the environment, many times it is not possible because most bazaars are in Mexico City or because they simply do not like.

But “when you buy clothes, look at the label, choose national brands, avoid clothes made in China, India, Vietnam.Get as much as possible as fabrics such as Lycra, Poliéster, Nylon and Acrylics, ”says Maria Fernanda Leduc fashion expert.

70 million barrels of oil are spent each year to produce polyester, according to the UN.But when buying garments of natural materials you avoid the expense of non -renewable resources.

Efraín Paulino Miranda, National Fashion Revolution Mexico coordinator, an international organization that encourages the transparency and traceability of fashion brands through an index that evaluates brands in terms of human, labor and environmental rights, affirms that “theFast Fashion or the fashion industry is the most use, but the problem is all the conditions that we do not know about brands. ”