1. Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market My chilly visit to W. 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenue Saturday, March 29.
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11. Student Rebekka Rafnsdottier from Reykjavik, Iceland shopped the market during her weekend stay in New York City. She found two dresses and was confident she would purchase them for $35 after a little bargaining with the owners.
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13. Vendor Judith Adler of Charles Adler Vintage Clothier prices things based on the item’s rarity. “ If you know you’re never gonna see it again, it’s top dollar,” said Adler. Most of Adler’s items are just that. She prefers to sell pre 60’s menswear. “ Things made in the 60’s and earlier is a whole different level of quality,” she said.
14. “ I mean you look at a coat from the 40’s and a coat from the 80’s or a coat from today and you couldn’t even consider. Even couture, even a $5,000 Armani coat today is not tailored as well as a run of the mill coat was in the 1930’s and 40’s.”
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17. “ I love hats,” said Adler. “An average looking man puts on a hat and he looks good. A good looking man puts on a hat and he looks great.”
18. “ It adds something and it’s fun. People enjoy them. It’s a real sort of almost play acting sense of it and people love that and it makes me happy to actually pair people up with hats and clothing and the perfect belt. Things that they’re gonna use and love and it really has some value as opposed the the throw away society we live in.”
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