Trickle-Up: 2 dollar hoodie as a luxury aesthetic
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This episode explains how second-hand clothes shifted from being associated with poverty to becoming a trendy, billion-dollar industry.
In this episode, a "trickle-up" theory explains how behaviors that begin as necessity at the bottom of the social ladder get adopted and eventually monetized at the top — comparing it to how denim workwear and hip-hop streetwear became luxury items.
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