Catalina Aristizábal began noticing that her daughter's clothes stayed as a new as she was growing and organized a sales system very much from her environment."Then people told me that he liked my style, I have been a person who has always liked fashion and they suggested to launch me to sell used women's garments and thus 2nd life was born."

Eleonora Morales also gave life to his proposal Garage Sale, “we started my mother and I with this project, a different proposal to consume fashion.We do a process of cleaning all the garments, we remove the motorcycles, the spots, so that they are in the best possible state and can be sold. ”

Both have a curatorship process, because it is not to receive clothes in poor condition, prices are given according to how the garment is and can range from 15 thousand to almost a million pesos in brand or designer clothes.

The biggest challenge they have faced, they argue, has been to change the mentality of Colombians, "make people understand that you can wear garments that have been used by others and that nothing happens is not easy," says Morales."And it is not only difficult for people to buy, also to sell, decide that this pants that used only and no longer serves it," Aristizábal complements.

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2Egonda Vida already has a shared place in the El Poblado sector, Garage Sale has made five itinerant sales in Bogotá and Medellín and plan to continue with this model.

For UN Environment to promote a change in forms of consumption through measures such as this, “the best care of clothing and recycling and return programs, a greater impact could be had, and that just by duplicating the time we use each garmentFrom dressing we could reduce the greenhouse gases emissions that produces the fashion industry ”.

He already knows that buying used clothes can make his contribution to the environment.If you still find it difficult to exchange clothes with your nearby circle, you can discover treasures, renew your closet and give good use to a garment that was forgotten.