Yes, We Wash Our Clothes. (Apparently That’s Not a Given?)

Ever walk into a vintage or thrift store and get hit with that unmistakable basement funk? Like the scent of forgotten attics, damp laundry, and something vaguely... decomposing?

Yeah, we’ve been there too. And no, your nose isn’t broken — that’s probably just a store that doesn’t wash their inventory before throwing it on the racks.

We said what we said.

At Decaydence, we do things differently.

Every piece you see in our store — from the $22 band tee to the $150 Pendleton coat — goes through a full process before it earns the right to be on our floor.

Here’s what happens before the price tag goes on:

• We wash it. Hot water, gentle detergent, air dry, line dry, steam — whatever it needs to be clean and preserved.
• We clean and spot-treat. Ink, rust, lipstick, mystery goo — we go to war with it.
• We repair it. Missing buttons? Re-stitched seams? Rescued hems? Done and done.
• We research it. We look up comps, determine true value, date the piece when we can, and make sure we’re not selling you a fast fashion dupe in vintage’s clothing.
• We steam it. Because no one wants to try on wrinkled chaos.
• We price it honestly. If it’s rare, we’ll tell you why. If it’s a steal, you’ll still feel like you won.

So yeah — you won’t find that moldy thrift store smell here. You’ll find clean, wearable, storied vintage that’s been loved a second (and sometimes third) time before it ever touches a hanger.

Because we don’t just sell vintage — we respect it.

And we think you deserve better than pit-stained nostalgia with a whiff of grandma’s basement.