This winter, I was in the market for a very particular vintage shirt: a Grateful Dead concert tee featuring bedazzled sheet music for “Sugar Magnolia.” My mom had bought one at a show in the ’80s, and over the intervening decades, my sister and I wore it until the seams literally gave out. (It’s still in my closet, but the rips in it are so large that it’s impossible to tell which are holes for your extremities and which are just… holes.) So when I read about Disorder Vintage , an archival band tee seller on Instagram, I DMed to see if they could track it down. Six weeks later, a package arrived from a collector they’d found in Virginia. Inside wasn’t just my new favorite shirt. It was my new favorite story.

Suddenly I found myself hooked on resale — scooping up a pair of 1970s poodle-s

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