Montreal vintage store co-owners find new life in second-hand fashion [Video]

After developing an online shopping addiction, Montrealer Jessica Yaffe said she discovered the world of second-hand clothing.

“I ended up thrifting and going to estate sales and just finding really interesting things,” Yaffe said.

Yaffe said she even got her friend Jennifer Lassner into it. The women loved thrifting so much they eventually opened their own vintage store, Relove Vintage.

“We are trying to encourage people not to shop by trend but by ‘What makes you feel good? What looks good on your body?’”

But opening their own store came with challenges.

“It was going really, really well. And we got a call late one Friday night that there was a flood. That’s all we knew. The roof basically fell through the ceiling. We were very lucky that we didn’t really lose much,” Yaffe said.

A stroke of luck, and just like the clothes they sell, now they too are getting a second chance, a new location in …