dabl offers products from three categories: vintage, upcycled, and handmade.

VINTAGE

Vintage garments and accessories are sourced from thrift stores and estate sales.  These pieces are cleaned, sanitized, and repaired (if necessary) before tagged and added to the shop.  We use the term vintage loosely. At dabl, we refer to anything from around the early 2000s and earlier to be vintage.  Every so ofter, we will sell something from the past few years on our site.  In those cases the item will be marked as 'second hand' and not 'vintage.

UPCYCLED

Upcycled pieces refer to anything we have majorly altered using second hand or vintage pieces.  An example would be cutting up a blouse and sewing it back together in a way that reflects a more contemporary trend.

HANDMADE

Handmade is just what it sounds like!  Items marked handmade are sew or assembled my dabl right here in Columbus.  Our goal when making this handmade is to use as many second had materials (like jewelry chain and fabric) as possible.

Sustainability

One of dabl's main goals if to make fashion a sustainable experience. As we already know, shopping clothing that has already has a past life is the most sustainable option (right next to not buying anything new at all of course).  We want to carry that sustain ability into how we package our goods as well.  We use Ecoenclose paper mailers (made of recycled paper) to send out our orders*.  Our tissue paper and thank you notes are also 100% recyclable. 

*We still have a pack of plastic bubble mailers that were given to us to use when we first started out that are sometimes used to ship jewelry only orders.  Once we go through them, they will be replaced with 100% recyclable packaging.