In a cramped storage locker facing a drive-thru restaurant in an alleyway, Braedeon Taylor flipped through a rack of faded and oversized shirts. He pulled one out. A graphic of monkeys and some text lined the front of the piece.
"El Camino Youth 2001 ...
this shirt doesn't exist anywhere else," Taylor said. His storage locker, only big enough to fit two or three people, is decorated wall to wall with old T-shirts and crowded with racks and boxes of clothing from different eras. Braeden Taylor approaches the storage locker where he keeps his curated stock.
(Michael Heenan/ CBC) Taylor opened the space a year ago to bring customers in for private shopping appointments. "Instead of just being, like, 'Come to my house and look at my clothes,' it's nice to just have a solid location for people to come to," he said. Taylor, a full-time barber for his day job, is the co-owner of Cherrys Thrifted.
His business curates a line of unique and vintage clothing. "I've always had a knack for older things," he said. "Like, when I was younger, I collected old antiques .
.. I like clothes, I like old things.
Just kind of worked out nice." Catherine Boyd, owner of GenLess, runs her business out of a room in her house. (Michael Heenan/ CBC) He gets his stock buying bulk from distributors in the area, thrifting, and from trades with other resellers.
Taylor and his shop are just one of many vintage resellers in the Maritimes. It's a close-knit committee of people who are always supportive of one an.