Not So New, but Not Forgotten

[C. Dianne Zweig Editor's Desk]

Not So New, but Not Forgotten

 By  Alexander Jacobs

WHEN 1 of a Find, a high-end vintage clothing store, arrived on Lincoln Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, during the spring of 2008, it was greeted with bland indifference.

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Donna Alberico for The New York Times

 

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Donna Alberico for The New York Times

 

This is, after all, quite possibly the least chic neighborhood in New York City: a place where the closest thing to a club scene is cargo pants-clad, nose-pierced damsels gamboling to Van Morrison’s “Moondance” while in line for their chamomile brews at the Tea Lounge; where exhausted parents march to their desultory date nights in the morning’s clammy yoga togs; where the central shoe destination is an Aerosoles. (And it’s often mobbed!) How could such people be expected to appreciate the joys of a deadstock Halston gown with labels intact?

The proprietor of 1 of a Find, the pricelessly named Honey Moon (yes, she’s from Northern California) must have tuned quickly into the Slope’s nonexistent fashion frequency: after about a year she moved her shop to a stretch of Vanderbilt Avenue in nearby Prospect Heights that also houses Unnameable Books, a secondhand bookstore, and Wink, an eco-conscious beauty parlor. The three establishments form a kind of blissful Bermuda triangle of guilt-free consumerism.

 

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