{"id":8063,"date":"2025-07-22T20:54:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:24:51","slug":"cherubs-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/cherubs-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Using investigative skills to thrift the perfect pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When they weren\u2019t scouring the streets of Evanston for people to quote, 2025 Medill Cherubs were hunting through thrift stores for their next find.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a field trip to Chicago, Gaby Foster from Menlo Park, California, thrifted matching gold bangles with her roommate, cementing the trip in their memory. She said the three-story shop, Born Again Vintage, was the \u201cmost phenomenal thrift store\u201d she\u2019s ever visited.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cherubs found that, similar to the sources they consulted, the clothing they discovered told them a story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foster uses thrift stores to decode the culture of new places she visits. \u201cThe clothing you find shows you about the lifestyles and hobbies of the people that live there,\u201d Foster said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After spending an afternoon at Crossroads, an Evanston thrift spot, rifling through everything from dress shirts to colorful overalls, Savannah Smith from San Carlos, California, came to the same conclusion. \u201cIt seems Evanston is very diverse in what people do, which you can see through the thrift store.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith said an unusual number of cherubs were excited to thrift, compared to other summer programs she\u2019s attended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She believes this is because thrifting can often feel like an investigation. \u201cThrifting kind of goes along with the journalism vibe,\u201d Smith said, laughing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both require an eye for detail, and most importantly, persistence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou have to be okay with looking through everything,\u201d Will Hansen from Missoula, Montana, said, agreeing. \u201cOtherwise, you\u2019ll never know if there was a section you missed that had the perfect piece.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherubs channeled their love for investigation while thrifting in Chicago and downtown Evanston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":9799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[498],"class_list":["post-8063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","category-going-to-chicago"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":498,"user_id":202,"is_guest":0,"slug":"banichatha","display_name":"Bani Chatha","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/495f68b5c6ff987ac3ad8dbd0fe73d866e69a0267dfdab4d8f490885341247ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Chatha","first_name":"Bani","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10335,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions\/10335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}