Rags Vintage Clothing: A Vintage Clothing Store

By Rithvik Gidwani, CEO

Rags Vintage Clothing began its journey in May 2020. Many of you might recall that was the beginning of the primary lockdown right here within the UK. We began off as a sole dealer after I (Rithvik Gidwani) first started promoting garments from my very own wardrobe on Depop! During this time, I used to be nonetheless a pupil finding out at Queens University Belfast, however due to COVID-19 my tutorial 12 months was lower brief! I used to be capable of spend all my time promoting garments to you guys and spend little or no time in the direction of my diploma!

In the next months, I started to take over my mum or dad’s home (who supported me all through my insanity) and shortly I arrange a snug little HQ in our storage. We have been match to obtain new inventory each week and I labored all through the day to scrub, iron, shoot and add new garms to Depop day by day! By the time lockdown ended we have been capable of obtain prime vendor standing (as of September that 12 months)!

Sales have been on the rise however I had to return to college, so it was about time I known as for back-up! To my mother and father’ aid I relocated the enterprise to Belfast and rented out a prime ground studio workplace to proceed the enterprise alongside my schooling. Further down the road a brand new face joined the corporate, Rory, who now shares the workload alongside me! The firm has lately gained incorporation beneath ’personal restricted’ standing as of July 2022.

I’m now in my ultimate 12 months of college, and we now have managed to open a NEW classic retailer in Belfast at my very own University’s Student Union constructing. We now have a number of staff serving to us out with day-to-day store work and we proceed to develop on-line on our personal web site and on Depop with new garments being uploaded each few days!

Today we intention to turn out to be one of many main classic retailers in Northern Ireland/Ireland and sooner or later, the remainder of the UK. We need to thank everybody who has purchased an merchandise, despatched us a message, visited our web site, visited any of our occasions, referred our firm to a buddy and most of all anybody studying this immediately. It has been a tough journey to date, however we nonetheless have a lot longer to go.

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