Find Hard-to-Find Items Quickly With This Vintage Clothing Search Engine
If you are shopping for new clothes, it is relatively easy to find what you need. When you are looking for vintage clothing; Finding the perfect jacket, bag, or pair of jeans is a little tricky, though. Gem is a website and app that can help.
The site works like a search engine of sorts, but specifically for vintage items. Refinery 29 wrote about the location earlier this week.
The idea is that instead of having to search many different sites for that product or google and get many unrelated results, you can search thousands of stores at once on Gem.
The site scans online stores to create a database of items being sold. When you do a search, it compares your search query against this database and shows you what was found.
Search results are presented as a kind of Pinterest page with images of the products in question, as well as a price icon so you know how much the seller is asking for them.
When you click on an item, the site takes you to a new page where you can see any additional photos of that item that exist, as well as a link to the site where you can navigate to a potential purchase of that item.
Since he browses so many sites, you are much more likely to find this vintage Coach bag or the perfect blazer. Chances are, you can even find it in a store you never knew existed.
Next time you are looking for a vintage item, it is definitely worth giving it a try to see what you can do.