A consignment shop called the Drapery Exchange in Darien, Conn., specializes in luxurious drapes.
"Customers are very temperamental now," said Nancy Alinovi, who owns two consignment shops called Adore Designer Resale Boutique in the Raleigh, N.C., area.
Elizabeth Murphy, who along with her husband Ben Malik Karambiri owns three high-end consignment stores called Eleven – one in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn – loves the hustle of consigning.
I stopped at a small gift and consignment store called Bearing Song and Gifts to talk with the owner, Sarah Hanson, a native of Nome who grew up in Juneau but returned here eight years ago.
Governor Palin, who used to get her hair done at the Beehive in Wasilla and shop at an Anchorage consignment shop called Out of the Closet, paid her traveling hairstylist — recommended by Cindy McCain — $10,000 for the first half of October.
The building is now a three-unit strip mall, with a consignment shop, called Ida's Place, run by Smith's mother; a coffee and bagel spot; and, in between, Team Swish.
She built that basement business into a multi-unit, multi-million consignment store chain called Rags.
"When you buy something, you have to go research it to put together an intelligent listing," he said, adding that he now makes his living through his virtual consignment shop, which he calls Granny's Attic.
For shopping, since you will have spent all your money on flight, hotel, food and spa, you may want to do the Aspen contradiction and hit the new luxury consignment shop in town called The Little Bird (205 S. Mill St. Suite 221A), where you can score billionaires cast-offs.
To call it a consignment or thrift store is an insult to what the store's namesake has done.
