Ivanka Trump Brand Clothing is Turning Up in Thrift Stores Across the Country

[JI7]

Americans say they are purging Ivanka Trump-brand clothing from their closets and bringing it to thrift stores because they refuse to associate with the businesswoman’s father — President Trump.

Tess Bradley, a Pennsylvania resident, said she felt obliged to part ways with an Ivanka Trump scarf she loved after Trump became President.

“Her name was huge on it and in all good consciousness I could not promote anything Trump,” she told the Daily News.

And so she took it to Goodwill, after an upscale consignment store failed to sell it.

Thrift store sales reps report that they’ve seen more Ivanka Trump brand clothing than usual in their donation piles — and on their sales floors, according to Fortune.

But not even their customers are interested in the brand.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/people-rid-ivanka-trump-brand-clothing-article-1.3417213

[AlexSFCA]

1. hilarious

[spiderpig]

2. Yo, Ivanka! (Where are you, by the way? In the Witness Protection Program?)

Your moneyed friends wouldn't buy your garbage to save their lives, and we earthlings have seen through your hypocrisy all along.

Glad to see your fake fashion line going down the drain like Trump Vodka.

[barbtries]

3. wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

i would be happy to see the entire family impoverished. forced to leave the country. i have nothing against the young children but all the rest...yeah, they can go to hell. the damage already done is incalculable.

[LiberalBrooke]

4. In the trash.

If I owned any items of her brand I would throw them away rather than donate them just so no one would ever wear them again.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. It disturbs me to see clothing thrown away.

Not everyone has the luxury of being choosy. Some people shop at thrift stores because that's all they can afford. Throwing clothes away reduces their options and makes their lives more difficult.

Among those who can choose, if it's someone else's choice to wear Ivanka's line of clothing, who am I to judge? Is my judgment better than theirs? Different strokes for different folks.

Also, and maybe more important in this case, Goodwill and other stores make a lot of money off of clothes that they cannot sell on their clothing racks.

A great deal of donated clothing is in too poor a condition to sell as clothing, especially at the end of the year. No problem. The thrift stores pack it into huge bundles, which they sell to rag merchants. The rag merchants turn the otherwise unsalable clothing into - wait for it - 100% rag content paper.

[crazycatlady]

10. Most thrift stores have multiple brands

When I donate to the (SPCA) thrift store, I only donate clothes in sellable condition. Everything else goes to the H&M clothes recycling program (clothes are turned into rags, cleaning cloth, stuffing for upholstery, etc.)

ACtually shopping at thrift stores is the most eco friendly way of buying clothes.

[gordianot]

5. The Trump brand is a failing business.

The only thing that keeps them going is access to the Government but even that is in peril as they are investigated. They may avoid jail time, the real punishment is when they go broke and are abandoned by Russian financiers.

Trump is not to big to fail and I doubt too corrupt to fail works. Trump is the swamp easily drained when no longer useful.

[sharedvalues]

7. They're still stealing our taxpayer money via Mar A Lago and DC hotel.

[gordianot]

9. That gets sold off with the rest including Trump tower.

[sharedvalues]

12. As long as we clawback their profits too - from membership fees and hotel use.

[gordianot]

14. The whole thing rests on bank loans that once gone.

Trump is no Scarlet O'Hara and his kids have no intrinsic value. They may get a few book deals once they get out of jail. As for myself after the money laundering shuts down I do not care if they go to jail as long as they go broke. Trump could get a penthouse somewhere with a decent Presdential retirement or chop wood like Kaiser Willhem in exile.

[Grammy23]

16. If there is any justice (and that is often in doubt),

tRump will spend the rest of his days and nights behind bars. He has done enough misdeeds and illegal (not to mention immoral) things to earn him a very long prison stay. At the age of 71 and his assumed not-so-great health, it is likely he would never leave confinement in some type of lock up.

If he is ever found guilty of the crimes against our country that so many believe he has committed, no possibility of a presidential pension should exist. It would be the ultimate slap in the faces of the American people to think we'd allow any kind of financial support to a guy who will likely go down in history as our most notorious traitor.

[sharedvalues]

17. It's important to deter future criminals too

His corruption would be bribery if any of us did it. Those kind of crimes must be punished to deter others from trying the same in future. Trump must be left worse off after his corruption than he was before.

[gordianot]

18. I doubt anyone who ever held that office will ever go to prison.

You know too much to be allowed to go to prison no matter the setting he will be watched. Take away Trump's twitter place serious disclosure restrictions on Donald like every other ex President. Now his kids could easily end up doing time along with bankruptcy.

[Happyhippychick]

8. When I'm shopping and come across a piece of her clothing I say "UUUUUGGGGGHHH" out loud

I cannot help it, it's so primal that I feel disgusted when I see that name.

[dalton99a]

11. Fit for the dumpster

[ismnotwasm]

13. Saw a Ivanka dress in a Ross-dress-for-less. Couple of them actually

Showed them to my niece, who was shopping for a recital. We both had a good giggle

[madaboutharry]

15. When Ivanka first started

her clothing line, her goal was to make it high end. She wanted to have her line in the category of Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Prada. Wealthy women weren't interested. She was forced to change her entire strategy and find a different customer base.

[JI7]

20. she wanted the status of high end designers without having any interest in doing the actual work

of designing clothes.

there are many good talented designers who will never reach the level of those you name. but they are still able to do well because of their talent.

but Ivanka had no interest in designing clothes . she just wanted to be seen as the level of prada, vuitton etc. the fact she makes knockoffs in china says it all. she doesn't even design her own stuff to get it cheaply mass produced.

[Runningdawg]

19. In the spirit of the Abercrombie & Fitch protest

years ago, please purchase any Trump brand clothing you see at thrift stores and give it to the homeless. #Trumpthehomeless