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The permanent shelf. Everything we know about finding, buying and keeping second-hand in India — so you stop getting had.
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8 PUBLISHED · 8 COMMISSIONED
FLD 101Real Carhartt vs the Sarojini copy
Four checks, thirty seconds, no phone needed.
LAUNCH SET3 MINENDS AT: SAROJINI NAGAR, DELHI
FLD 104How to haggle at Chor Bazaar
When to walk, when to stay quiet, and why the first number is never the real one.
LAUNCH SET3 MINENDS AT: CHOR BAZAAR, MUMBAI
FLD 108Western sizing on an Indian body
A US Large is not a Large. Four measurements decide everything.
LAUNCH SET3 MINENDS AT: YOUR OWN WARDROBE
FLD 112Reading a Levi's tab in five seconds
Big E, small e, and the single stitch that dates a pair before the price does.
COMMISSIONEDENDS AT: ANY DENIM RACK
FLD 115Chikpet, Bangalore: a walking route
Where to start, what each lane is good for, and the two shops worth the whole trip.
COMMISSIONEDENDS AT: CHIKPET, BANGALORE
HIS 201How the world's old clothes reach India
The ports, the bales, and why everything on an Indian rack was somebody else's first.
COMMISSIONEDENDS AT: THE LABEL IN YOUR COLLAR
HIS 205Export surplus: the industry that dressed a generation
Before thrift had a name, India was already wearing the overruns.
COMMISSIONEDENDS AT: ANY SURPLUS SHOP
HIS 209Why Kolkata and Kerala wear football shirts like nowhere else
Two football cultures older than any broadcast deal.
LAUNCH SET3 MINENDS AT: MAIDAN, KOLKATA
HIS 214Bombay, 1994
Where Indian street style actually came from — and it wasn't a runway.
COMMISSIONEDENDS AT: COLABA CAUSEWAY
HIS 218Y2K thrift: what survived the apology
Low-rise, mesh, baby tees — how to thrift the decade without buying the costume.
LAUNCH SET3 MINENDS AT: ANY GOING-OUT RACK
MAT 301What survives a Mumbai monsoon
Ninety per cent humidity is a materials exam. Most fabrics fail it.
LAUNCH SET3 MINENDS AT: YOUR CUPBOARD
MAT 305Washing a thirty-year-old jersey in hard water
Why the print cracks, why whites go yellow, and the one thing not to do.
COMMISSIONEDENDS AT: YOUR BATHROOM
MAT 309What a darzi can fix — and what he can’t
Taper, shorten, take in: yes. Shoulders: no.
LAUNCH SET3 MINENDS AT: YOUR LOCAL TAILOR
MAT 312Selvedge: what the red line means
The self-finished edge, the ID line, and why Japanese mills slowed the loom on purpose.
LAUNCH SET3 MINENDS AT: ANY DENIM RACK
PRO 401Twenty-five years on the same stall
One trader, one pitch, and what he's watched arrive and leave.
COMMISSIONEDENDS AT: FASHION STREET, MUMBAI
PRO 405The people who find things
The sellers on SZN2, in their own rooms, with the pieces they refuse to sell.
COMMISSIONEDENDS AT: THEIR STOREROOMS
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EVERGREEN — WE KEEP THESE UPDATEDFLD 108 · FIELDCRAFT
Western sizing on an Indian body
A US Large is not a Large. Pit to pit, shoulder, length, waist — measurements don’t lie.
EVERGREEN · 3 MINFLD 101 · FIELDCRAFTReal Carhartt vs the Sarojini copy
Four checks. Thirty seconds. No phone. Know which jacket you’re holding.
EVERGREEN · 3 MINDone reading?
FRESH DROPS →ENROL
One lesson a week. Then first look at the drop.
Members read it first — and get a 72-hour head start on everything that lands. One of each. It goes.
NO SPAM. ONE EMAIL A WEEK. LEAVE WHENEVER.