二手時裝正在迅速增長，到2025年將達到640億美元

二手時裝正在迅速增長，到2025年將達到640億美元

It's a tough time to be in the fashion industry, with widespread store closures and staffing shortages and nervous customers whose disposable incomes have shrunk in recent months. The only segment of the industry that has really been flourishing throughout these strange times is secondhand, as revealed in the annual resale report published by thredUP and GlobalData, a third-party retail analytics firm.

現(xiàn)在是時尚界的艱難時期，商店紛紛關門，員工短缺，近幾個月來，顧客的可支配收入縮水，心情緊張。第三方零售分析公司thredUP和GlobalData發(fā)布的年度轉(zhuǎn)售報告顯示，在這個奇怪的時期，該行業(yè)唯一真正繁榮的領域是二手零售。

thredUP is an online platform that allows people to buy and sell used clothing. It's a clever model that has managed to make thrift shopping as easy and convenient as shopping for new clothes online; and being established before the coronavirus pandemic struck has allowed thredUP to grow impressively at a time when similar businesses are stagnating (or worse).

thredUP是一個允許人們買賣二手衣服的在線平臺。這是一種聰明的模式，使廉價購物像在網(wǎng)上買新衣服一樣簡單、方便;在冠狀病毒大流行爆發(fā)之前建立起來的公司，讓thredUP在類似業(yè)務停滯不前(甚至更糟)的時候，取得了令人印象深刻的增長。

thredUP (used with permission)

The annual report for 2020 shows that "resale is set to soar." Between 2019 and 2021, online secondhand shopping is expected to grow by 69%, while the broader retail sector (including offline secondhand) will shrink by 15%. The entire resale sector is expected to grow to five times its current size over the next five years, hitting $64 billion in worth, and will be twice the size of the fast fashion sector by 2029.

2020年的年度報告顯示，“轉(zhuǎn)售將會激增。”2019年至2021年，網(wǎng)上二手購物預計將增長69%，而更廣泛的零售領域(包括線下二手購物)將萎縮15%。未來五年，整個轉(zhuǎn)售行業(yè)的規(guī)模預計將增長到目前的五倍，達到640億美元，到2029年將是快時尚行業(yè)規(guī)模的兩倍。

thredUP (used with permission)

What's driving this explosive growth?

是什么推動了這種爆炸性增長?

There are a number of factors. One is that shoppers are looking for better value, and they realize that buying used clothes is the easiest way to achieve that. The stigma associated with used clothing is not as strong as it once was (90% of Gen Z shoppers say there's no stigma at all), and almost half of shoppers surveyed say they plan to spend more on secondhand items in the next twelve months.

有很多因素。一是購物者在尋找更有價值的東西，他們意識到購買二手衣服是實現(xiàn)這一目標最簡單的方法。人們對二手衣服的偏見已經(jīng)不像以前那么強烈了(90%的Z一代購物者說根本不存在偏見)，幾乎有一半的受訪者表示，他們計劃在未來12個月里在二手衣服上花更多的錢。

Another factor is the coronavirus pandemic, and the fact that so many people have been cooped up at home. Avid shoppers had to find an outlet online, which is why platforms like thredUP did so well. It also received a huge amount of inventory, purged from people's closets during a "quarantine clean-out frenzy."

另一個因素是冠狀病毒大流行，如此多的人被關在家里?？駸岬馁徫镎卟坏貌辉诰W(wǎng)上找到一個銷售點，這就是為什么像thredUP這樣的平臺做得這么好。它還收到了大量庫存，這些庫存都是在一次“檢疫清理狂潮”中從人們的衣櫥中清理出來的。

Finally, people are more concerned about sustainability than ever before. Young shoppers in particular are more aware of the damage caused by the fashion industry, its notoriously poor working conditions, its enormous water footprint, and the toxic chemicals used to create colors and finishes, and they are keen to make fashion-related decisions to mitigate that harm. In fact, the report found that "choosing unsustainable options now elicits feelings of guilt or shame, while being green gives a euphoric mood boost."

最后，人們比以往任何時候都更加關注可持續(xù)發(fā)展。尤其是年輕的購物者，他們更加意識到時尚行業(yè)所造成的損害，其臭名昭著的惡劣工作條件，其巨大的水足跡，以及用于制造顏色和拋光的有毒化學物質(zhì)，他們熱衷于做出與時尚相關的決定，以減輕這種損害。事實上，該報告發(fā)現(xiàn)，“選擇不可持續(xù)的選項會引發(fā)內(nèi)疚或羞愧感，而綠色則會帶來愉悅的情緒。”

It's more than just a euphoric mood boost; it actually does make a difference. If everyone wore a thrifted outfit to a wedding next year, it would save 1.65 pound of CO2e, which is equivalent to taking 56 million cars off the road for one day. Reselling a dress instead of tossing it reduces its CO2e impact by 79%. By choosing secondhand, you can shrink your own carbon footprint by 527 pounds in a year.

這不僅僅是一種欣快的情緒提升;這確實很重要。如果明年每個人都穿著廉價的衣服去參加婚禮，將節(jié)省1.65英鎊的二氧化碳，相當于減少5600萬輛汽車一天的排放量。將一件衣服轉(zhuǎn)賣而不是扔掉可以減少79%的二氧化碳排放。如果選擇二手的，你一年可以減少527磅的碳足跡。

thredUP (used with permission)

There is potential for this to turn into a positive feedback loop of sorts, where savvy shoppers start buying higher quality items so that they'll retain value and can be resold when the time comes. This in turn has the potential to reduce demand for cheap and shoddily constructed "fast fashion."

這有可能變成某種積極的反饋循環(huán)，精明的購物者開始購買更高質(zhì)量的商品，這樣它們就能保持價值，并在時機成熟時轉(zhuǎn)售。這反過來又有可能減少對廉價粗制濫造的“快時尚”的需求。

Everyone is jumping on the resale bandwagon these days. Major retailers are partnering with thredUP through its new "Resale as a Service" platform to broaden their earnings and spruce up their sustainability credentials. They're offering Clean Out Kits to customers to send in used clothing and earn credits toward thredUP products. As described by Business of Fashion,

現(xiàn)在每個人都趕上了轉(zhuǎn)賣的潮流。主要的零售商正通過其新的“服務轉(zhuǎn)售”平臺與thredUP合作，以擴大他們的收入，并美化他們的可持續(xù)性信譽。他們向顧客提供清潔工具包，讓他們把舊衣服寄進來，并獲得購買thredUP產(chǎn)品的積分。正如時尚商業(yè)雜志所描述的，

"If I’m a fashion brand right now and see that the resale industry is growing at a rate that’s 21 times faster than the overall fashion industry, I’d be thinking to myself, 'How do I get a piece of this?'"

“如果我現(xiàn)在是一個時尚品牌，看到轉(zhuǎn)售行業(yè)的增長速度比整個時尚行業(yè)快21倍，我就會想，‘我怎么才能分得一杯羹?’”

While online secondhand shopping may not be for everyone, it's exciting to see how well it's doing at a time when so much else is struggling. It offers a straightforward solution to the problems of clothing overconsumption and environmental degradation, while still enabling people to dress well and for less money than they'd spend otherwise. What's not to love about that?

雖然網(wǎng)上二手購物可能不適合每個人，但在其他很多東西都在掙扎的時候，看到它做得這么好，還是令人興奮的。它為服裝過度消費和環(huán)境惡化的問題提供了一個直接的解決方案，同時仍然使人們能夠穿著得體，而且花費比不這樣做要少。有什么理由不去喜歡這種模式呢?