Fashion reality show promotes recycling clothes

Amidst all the new midseason replacement fashion reality shows like NBC's Fashion Star and Style Network's Confessions of a Fashionette, I found VH1's House of Consignment where a company buys designer duds from consumers and sells them for profit, also known as the thriftiness of recycling. 

Consignment shops can be a goldmine for unique vintage and designer clothes and accessories that can't be found anywhere else because the owners buy or accept donated items from  a variety of consumers. So a consignment shop transforms to a candy shop where the perfect items are confectionery sweet.  

House of Consignment centers around the Chicago-based luxury online shop, eDrop-Off, where they take this concept of only purchasing the finest, gently used designer garb and placing the newly discovered items online where they are auctioned off. Though eDrop-Off pays the original owners for their items before they go online, owners still get a cut of the check when the items sell. 

The eco-friendly process keeps clothes and accessories in the loop of recycling, especially with the major designer labels such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Prada using tons of leather, animal fur, and other not-so-eco-friendly materials. Even in the first episode, an owner sold a heavy fur cape to eDrop-Off where a consumer bought it online to use as a throw on her sofa.