LSU grad brings high-end consignment conception to Perkins Road boutique

Trade Boutique owner Michelle Reinhardt is really bringing high-end designer clothing, purses and handbags and accessories at not-so-high-end asking prices to Baton Rouge.

In jane's newest consignment boutique on Kendrick Road, the fourth shop for Reinhardt, buyers can find labels like Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton, Manolo Blahnik, Dolce or Gabbana, Chanel, Kate Spade System.Drawing.Bitmap Tory Burch, but at a cheaper original cost. Why? Because the more inexpensive goods all come from other the female closets.

So , for example , that Kate Spade dress that sold at merchandising for $445 goes for $132. 99 at Swap. A Louis Vuitton backpack orginally purchased for $1, 205 is priced at $599. 99.

"All teens have clothes that they wear maybe once or twice, and it's still in just right condition, " Reinhardt says. "I like the idea they get a visit on their investment. "

It works support her three shops in Outstanding Orleans, and Reinhardt says she has already gotten a great reception at this website.

"I felt like Baton Rouge was your next step, " says the 1997 LSU graduate.

She opened her hottest store with 700 items but a stockroom jammed with more designer commodity, making the Baton Rouge location a huge of her stores, and the any with the biggest selection of clothing, place and handbags.

Longtime customer Gretchen Morris said she shops support Swap for the broad selection.

"I like it because it's different, " Morris says. "If I shift buy a shirt, I know no one more is going to own it. It's the same integrating their dresses. "

The 38-year-old Reinhardt began her swapping career on the inside 2008 with a small store not to mention New Orleans' Maple Street, upon which she's since opened Swap for childrens.

Items brought in for consignment continue to be combed over with a keen eye by Reinhardt and her team.

Consigners achieve anywhere from 40 to 60 percentage points of what the item sells for use with. All items are kept for 80 days. If something doesn't sell off, consigners can retrieve it also donate it to the store for use with charity.

Couture items, such as those individuals from Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton as well as others, are all authenticated before they're make for sale, Reinhardt says.

The top people selling units, she says, come from clothing designers Diane Von Fustenberg, Tory Burch, Tibi and Rebecca Taylor, although the dealer also carries less costly lines, along the lines of J. Crew and Banana Republic.

"We want you to have all in the options here, " Reinhardt yells.

Some items that sit too long offered are often discounted, with prices as far as $10.

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