POPEYE Magazine September 2024 Issue

Why would you bother buying second-hand goods?
Of course, there’s more than one reason. Maybe it's because you can buy high-quality items at a reasonable price, or because the designs and ideas are interesting in ways that don’t occur to you in today’s conventional thinking. Or perhaps it’s because you like the unique, aged texture that comes with time.
If there were ten people, there would likely be ten different answers.
But above all, the most important thing is that the act of searching for that treasure amidst all the accumulated things is, for us, the ultimate form of play.
There are surprising stories hidden in items that seem hard to understand, or a folk craft from a country you've never been to suddenly makes your heart skip a beat. Maybe you’ll even learn about the unknown history of a familiar brand. It's those thrilling experiences that draw us to flea markets, vintage shops, and recycling stores.
So if you’ve never discovered the joy of digging through second-hand goods, I’d like to suggest this:
Why not dig through second-hand?

Contents
■ BRIMFIELD ANTIQUE FLEA MARKETS
■ What have people around the world found at flea markets?
■ What I’m digging through in second-hand.
From the endlessly vast world of old things, how do I search for what I want?
Learn from the perspectives of 21 diggers.
■ Emily & Aaron’s Tokyo Treasure Hunt.
■ The great second-hand clothing and goods we found.
A catalog of vintage clothes and goods discovered while walking through Tokyo, seen from a second-hand perspective.
■ Living with old things.
■ The unseen world is here!

• There’s a store that all antique lovers across the country acknowledge, deep in the mountains of Fukuoka.
• How about visiting a shop where you can buy everyday items from America a century ago?
  ■ YELLOW PAGE OF SECONDHAND
  ■ The DIG Squad at Recycling Shops / Book List for Good DIGGING /
  Watchlist of that person / How to have a long relationship with old things.

Publisher: ‎Magazine House
Language: ‎Japanese