Karma Rags is a second hand clothing shop located on the second level of the Flying Monkey Arts Center in the old Lowe Mill Factory building on Seminole Drive in Huntsville, Alabama. Opened in 2003, Karma Rags is your best option for finding unusual, colorful, comfortable clothing, scarves, hats, shoes, odds and ends, and jewelry. After years of buying almost everything I needed at thrift shops, yard sales, and junk shops; and after feeling like there were so many cool things I had to pass over because I didn't have room myself or it was the wrong clothing size, I decided to open Karma Rags (I also opened an upright case booth at Firehouse Antiques with my Mom). I actually started selling clothing at the Common Market in Five Points. My very first Saturday I made about $350. When I was kindly offered a place to set up shop at The Flying Monkey when it was on Putnam Drive, I took it! My rent supports The Monkey, so having Karma Rags there, and knowing that my rent supports such a worthy non-profit venue makes it all the better to thwart the mainstream corporate profit whores. Karma Rags is stocked with all kinds of reasonably priced clothing and things, including vintage clothes, linen, silks, broom skirts, shirts, vests, the odd jacket or two, shoes, scarves of interest, jewelry I've found at yard sales and jewelry made by Rachel Lackey and Sarah Moss, and there's even a few odds and ends of things like candle holders, books, and the like. It's rare that someone coming into the Recyclery leaves without at least one thing that they connected with, whether a clothing item or something else. You can reach me at 256-468-5319 if you would like to schedule a time to come in when I'm not open. And when you're at Karma Rags, don't forget to check out the artists' studios also on the second level. Sorry, Karma Rags is not a consignment store. Karma Rags is a direct action endeavour in opposition to oversized clothing stores and manufacturers who produce clothing by exploiting peoples' rights and welfare all over the world, and then destroy local economies by selling them in greedy large scale retail operations. It's a direct action against over blown profits. It's a direct action promoting local shopping at locally owned businesses, so the big box category killer super stores don't wipe out our local economies completely. You get the idea. |
