UK Fashion Shop Leading Provider of Secondhand and Vintage Wholesale Textiles

Company overview

UK Fashion Shop is the trading name of Srl Globale Trading, a Belgian company with the VAT number BE0827774244 and more than 25 years in the import and export of second-hand clothing and shoes. Both names appear together on the same site, so a buyer who has seen them listed separately is looking at one business.

The company says all its goods are the best cash-for-clothes collections from in and around the London area, and describes itself as the only company in Belgium working with high-quality UK C4C original. Take the exclusivity claim as its own, but note what it tells you about the source: this is British doorstep and counter collection, brought to Belgium and sold on from there.

The rarest thing here is a working webshop

Almost nothing in this trade publishes prices. This company runs an actual online shop with prices in euros or pounds, categories you can browse, and payment by card, bank transfer, Bancontact, iDEAL, PayPal and several others.

For anyone new to buying second-hand wholesale, that is worth more than it costs. You can see what a named grade actually costs per kilo, compare two lines side by side, and buy a single box to find out what the words mean in practice, all without a negotiation. Even if your volume eventually goes to a container supplier, an afternoon on a shop like this is the cheapest education available.

One expectation to set before you are disappointed: webshop prices per kilo will be higher than container prices, sometimes considerably. That is not a markup to be indignant about, it is the cost of buying 25 kg instead of 25 tonnes, with picking, packing and parcel freight spread over a tiny weight. Use the shop to learn the product and to test, then negotiate volume separately.

Minimum orders, and the freight logic behind them

The company publishes a three-step minimum that is unusually clear:

• Inside the EU: from one box of 20 to 25 kg, depending on the volume of the item.
• Outside the EU: one pallet, around 350 kg.
• Destinations such as Africa: small quantities are not possible, and buyers are referred to a head office for export that sells in minimums of a 20 ft container.

That ladder is the clearest illustration in this directory of something worth understanding: minimum order sizes are set by freight and customs, not by supplier preference. Inside the EU a pallet or a parcel moves without a customs entry, so a 25 kg box can be shipped economically. The moment you cross a customs border, each shipment carries a fixed cost of clearance and documentation that does not shrink with the load, so a 25 kg box would cost more to clear than to fill, and the minimum has to rise to a pallet. For a destination reached only by sea, the fixed cost per shipment rises again and the sensible unit becomes the container.

So when a supplier tells you the minimum is a container, they are usually not being difficult, they are describing your geography. If you want small quantities and you are outside Europe, the practical route is to find an importer in your region who buys containers and breaks them, rather than to keep asking European sellers for boxes. Buyers comparing second-hand clothing suppliers should ask for minimums quoted for their own country rather than in general.

Shipping cost files are downloadable per country, which is another rarity: you can price the landed cost yourself before contacting anyone.

The product categories, and one label worth decoding

The shop is divided into sorted items, pre-sorted mixed, unsorted original, accessories and shoes, plus a plus-size line and a top deals section.

The line to look at is Top quality CR, much tags. CR is cream, the top grade, and much tags means a high proportion of the garments still carry shop labels, in other words they were never worn. Tags in a cream line generally arrive through retail overstock or customer returns that entered the collection stream, and they are the single most saleable thing in a second-hand shop, because a tagged garment sells itself.

Much is not a number, though. Ask what proportion of the line carries tags, and whether it is consistent between deliveries, because a bale described that way in January and another in June can differ enormously depending on what overstock happened to arrive. If the grade vocabulary is unfamiliar, the standard grade definitions explain what cream should mean, and the account of how sorting houses work through original bags explains why the tagged fraction is always small.

Practical details

Goods are checked by hand against the customer's requirements before packing, and shipped by package, pallet or container. The company states that not everything it holds appears on the webshop, so a specific requirement is worth an email rather than a search. Local visitors are welcome by appointment, and the site carries a visible satisfaction score with customer reviews, which is a form of accountability few suppliers in this directory offer.

For a wholesale buyer starting out in Europe, the combination of published prices, a 20 kg entry point and downloadable freight tables makes this one of the few places in the trade where you can complete a first purchase without ever picking up the phone.

Frequently asked questions

Are UK Fashion Shop and Globale Trading the same company?

Yes. UK Fashion Shop is the trading name of Srl Globale Trading, a Belgian company with VAT number BE0827774244, and both names appear together on the same site.

What is the minimum order?

Inside the EU, one box of 20 to 25 kg. Outside the EU, one pallet of about 350 kg. For destinations such as Africa, a 20 ft container through an export head office.

Where does the clothing come from?

From cash-for-clothes collections in and around London, brought to Belgium and sold on from there.

Can I see prices before contacting anyone?

Yes. The company runs a webshop with prices in euros and pounds and publishes shipping cost files per country, though not all stock appears online.

What does Top quality CR, much tags mean?

CR is cream, the top grade, and much tags means a high proportion of items still carry shop labels and were never worn. Ask what percentage, since much is not a number.