Here's a question for my fellow New Yorkers -- or anyone else who might know. Does anyone know of any consignment shops in the city that take non-high end, non-designer clothes? Any of the 5 boroughs, even Hudson County, NJ, will do.

I have a lot of nice quality women's clothing, some of it never worn, that I'd like to try to sell, but all the shops I've called - yellow pages - want only designer merchandise. There MUST be some stores in the city that take decent clothing that does not have designer labels, no?

I've been donating for years to Catholic Charities, but I just thought it might be nice go make a few dollars back on some of the things I've bought but never worn. TIA.

I've never heard of consignments except for designers. With regular clothes you just give them away - there's not enough profit for a consignment shop to bother with them.

True, and the donor can take a tax deduction that may not necessarily reflect the actual market value of the donated items.

If you know what I mean.

you might try Housing Works in NYC; they have a few stores & alot of the
clothes are not designer stuff.

As far as I know, Housing Works only accepts donations and does nto sell on consignment.

Yes, Housing Works only takes donations. I have actually donated a few household items to them recently.

Coincidentally, just yesterday I passed a store on 18th St., somewhere between 6th and 8th, I forget which avenues. But they take clothing from Saks and Barney's and two of my suits are from Saks, labels still attached. So I'm going to give it a try.

I've taken many of my things to Beacon's Closet in Brooklyn. They just pay you, no consignment. You just take the stuff to them, they determine what they what to keep and then decide what it is worth. They will then donate the stuff they don't want, or you can take it back. You can choose to get store credit (which is usually more), or cash.

I think they may have several locations.

Just as a warning, you may be very disappointed as to how much you think your stuff is worth and what little they actual deem worthy of reselling at their store.

Thanks, Kangamom. I'll check out Beacon's.
Like I said, I've never tried to sell clothing before but I just thought I'd give it a try. If it's too much of a hassle or not worth the effort, I'll just go back to donating.