The Arizona Trading Co., 734 Massachusetts St., specializes in buying and selling used men's and women's clothing.
Rags to Riches
Story by Joann Birk • Photos by Brian Flink
hirts with little more material than a washrug and shoes that will be out of fashion before you have a chance to wear them can cost more money than many college students make in a month.
But there is refuge in the land of overpriced clothing. Students can let other people to buy the hip, expensive clothes and then wait for the clothes to appear on the racks of resale shops.
Welcome to the world of recycled clothing.
Tamrya Heim, manager of Arizona Trading Co, 734 Massachu-
Welcome to the world of recycled clothing
These are a few of the places in Lawrence that students can pick up cheap clothes:
Von Heim, manager of Arizona Trading Co, 734 Massachusetts St., said it was a business that had thrived on the West Coast for at least a decade, but did not gain popularity in Lawrence until about three years ago.
Arizona Trading Co., 734 Massachusetts St.
The Antique Mall
830 Massachusetts St.
The Salvation Army, 1818 Massachusetts St.
"I don't think this is a trend," Heim said. "If you can get five pairs of jeans for the price of one, then it is just the smart way to go." Arizona Trading Co. is one place where students can search for the latest styles, slightly used. Heim said almost everything in the store ranged from $3-15.
Employees at Arizona Trading Co. study the latest fashions and buy clothes that coincide with the latest styles, colors and fabrics. Heim said they typically had a higher quality of of clothes than resale stores like the Salvation Army, because they handpicked the clothes they wanted in the store.
Students who want to sell or trade their clothes can receive 40 percent of the selling price in cash or 60 percent in trade.
percent of the catches to buying used clothes at resale stores, such as Arizona Trading Co., is that students must search a little harder to find that perfect outfit.
Judy Buckley, Redondo Beach, Ca., sophomore, said she bought most of her clothes at resale stores and was comfortable digging through the racks to find what she was looking for.
Reed Peterson, manager of the Salvation Army, said shirts cost about $2, pants ranged from $3-5 and coats started at $6.
Buckley said she preferred Arizona Trading Co. because she could break even by trading clothes she was tired of wearing.
Jeans at the Antique Mall range from $9-15 and dresses range from $10-40. Occasionally, dealers will carry rare clothes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that are more expensive.
Students can also find used clothing at the Antique Mall, 830 Massachusetts, Gwen Billings, co-owner of the Antique Mall, said about five of the 50-60 independent dealers in the store carried vintage and slightly-used clothing.
The Salvation Army differs from the Antique Mall and Arizona Trading Co. because it does not have the luxury of choosing merchandise that is the latest style. All of the Salvation Army's clothing is donated. Reed said that nearly 25 percent of his business was from KU students, but that they usually were looking for costumes rather than everyday apparel.
Whether students are looking for a costume or for everyday apparel, there is no need to wear the same old clothes when students can wear someone else's.
You can find everything from bell bottoms to ball gowns," she said.
If these resale store prices are still more than students' budget, they can find everything from pants to jackets for less than $10 at the Salvation Army, 1818 Massachusetts St.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEW RELEAS
Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories "Tails" (Gefen) After all of the MTV play and radio saturation Loeb earned earlier this year, "Tails" promises to be a big-selling pseudo-
too bad Lobb couldn't let the commer- about alot.
I know I'm in the minority when I say that Leob just doesn't have what it takes, but I have to be honest. I think she sucks, and so does this whole album. Overall, out of 10:2
Dream Theater "A Change of Seasons" (Eastwest/Atlantic) Dream Theater, the band best described as the secret love child of Metallica and Yanni, has released a 50-minute compact disc centered on just one song. The title track, which weighs in at more than 23 minutes, is the hard-to-find tune that Dream Theater fans have been passing bootleg copies of since '92. This studio version, featuring so many overdubs I thought there was a symphony in the studio with the band, is well polished and vaguely rockin'.
Instead, Loeb includes "Stay" on her debut. Why? Everybody in the free world already owns that song. Does Loeb (or her record company) think that "Stay" will increase album sales?
Too big Love! Couldn't get the com-
cial success of "Stay" (from the platinum-selling
Reality Bites soundtrack) fade away while she made her first album.
That's not surprising. Loeb might be a decent songwriter, but her vocal range is much too limited.
They must. And that smacks of a lack of confidence in the rest of the album.
Dance Hall Crashers "Lockjaw" (510/Sony) Back
The rest of the CD, made up of live covers by artists as diverse as Led Zeppelin, Elton John and Journey, is downright awful. Overall: 5
when Rancid (who will play Liberty Hall on Oct. 16) was a band called Operation Ivy, frontman Tim Armstrong had a side project with some friends called Dance Hall Crashers. He eventually left to form Rancid, but the band moved on, put out a independent release, sell a bunch
--of records in the Bay Area and then inexplicably broke up.
Now this ska/punk band, featuring the sexy duet vocals of Elyse Rodgers and Karina Denike, is back, and their new album figures to send them back into punk/ska success.
Electrafixion "Burned d" (Sire/Warner Bros.) I can see it now. Two kids asking at the counter of their favorite record store: "Do you have that song that goes 'Na na na, na na, na.'?"
should make great radio singles, too. Overall: 7
Songs like "Good for Nuthin'," "Sticky" and "Go"
"Yeah, man, I think it's by Oasis or something."
The song is called "Never," and no, it's not by Oasis. It's Electrafaxion. In the '80s, there was an awesome British band called Echo and the Bunnymen. Now Bunnymen founders Will Sargent and Ian McCullouch have reunited, reconciled and reformed as new band, the startingly tight Electrafaxion. McCullough's voice is in fine form and Sargent drives the album with some of the coolest spacy guitar I've heard in a while. Overall: 7
Flaming Lips "Clouds Taste Metallic" (Warner Bros.)
In one word: rank. Overall: -3
up as they went. It's got some very jam-sounding songs that required very little post-production. It's also very soft. And very good.
Sonic Youth find the time to record this album? They put out a record late last winter, Thurston Moore played on Mike Watt's "Ball Hog or Tug-boat?" then released a solo album, and then the band headlined this summer's Lollapalooza tour.
Maybe that's why this record sounds like the band made it
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The title track is by far the finest song on the record,
Sonic Youth "Washing Machine" (DGC) Where did
but "Little Trouble Girl," featuring the Breeder's Kim Deal on vocals, is the song that gives the album most of its afternoon jam session feel.
No part of the disc sounds rushed or contrived (unlike their ultra-nolys last album) and if this were a perfect world, this disc would get a
KU Weekend
Now if Sonic Youth could only get their live show to sound like its albums...Overall: 8
Safety Orange "likewise" (Slith Sense Studios) Who are these guys? They're from Lawrence, they play some incredible guitar-fueled acid jazz, and I have never, ever heard of them.
Their bio says that they've played around town, and I've heard that band member Steve Gooding as a solo disc out too, but everyone I've asked is clueless. Their album is locally produced, so I assume it will be available at most stores. Check it out. A band this good shouldn't
As for the Chicago-based band's latest album, "Exit the Dragon," there are the same mildly fuzzed guitars and the same '70s bravado found on "Saturation". With the exceptions of "The Break" and "Last Night/Tomorrow," though the irresistible guitar hooks are missing.
The disc's bright spot is a reworked version of "Take a Walk" (now titled "View of the Rain") from 1993's "No Alternative" compilation (Arista).
little radio play on the Lazer.
Urge Overkill "Exit the Dragon" (Gefen) Before Urge Overkill played at Day on the Hill two years ago, I didn't care too much for the trio's '70s-inspired guitar hooks. I was impressed by the show, so I gave their album "Saturation" another shot.
It's not a bad effort, but I think I'll skip it and buy Saturation. Overall: 6
be a total mystery.
Overall: 8, and climbing.
Now it's my favorite album that I never got around to buying.
Nightlife calendar
Tonight
Helicat Trio, 10 p.m., $3 and $4, at The Bottleneck.
*Austin Lounge Lizards, 7 p.m., $7, at The Bottle-
keg, 737 N. Hampshire St.*
Bob Margolin, 10 p.m., $4, at The Jazzhaus, 926
1/2 Massachusetts St.
Blues Jam, 10 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe, 803 Massachusetts St
Wax Tadpoles, 9 p.m., $2, at Johnnie's Tavern,
401 N. Second St.
Shiner, Molly McGuire and Dorothy, 10 p.m., $3 and $5, at The Rottenneck.
Chubby Five and Ricky Dean Sinatra, 10 p.m., $3,
of The Jaws.
David Cummings, Scarlett Wonder Drug and Gutwrench, 8:30 p.m., $4 and $6, at The Pool Room, 925 Iowa St.
The Rockafellas, 10 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe.
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Wax Tadpoles, 9 p.m., $2, at Johnnie's Tavern.
Sunday.
Blue Meanies and NIL8, 10 p.m., $5 and $7, at The Bottleneck. Monday
Open Mic Night, featuring Yuba, 9 p.m., $1, at the Bottleneck.
Jannel Rap, 10 p.m., $3, at The Jazzhaus.
The Selecter and the Mudsharks, 10 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 at the door, at The Bottlenok.
that Power's Poetry Jam, 8 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe.
Cowboy Mouth and Billy White Trio, 10 p.m., $4
and $5 at The Bottleneck.
- Jerry Granell, 10 p.m., $3, at The Jazzhaus.
- George Hunt, 8 p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe.
Tweets
Vitreous Humor, Buttergurtry and Giant Chair, 10 o.
m. $3 and $4, at The Bottleneck.
Richard Johnson, 10 p.m., cover charge, at The Jazzehus.
Jazz club
Cats. G p.m., no cover charge, at Full Moon Cafe.
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