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Northshore October 2025
Andover's Chic Consignment Closet: Not your grandma's thrift store. By Alyssa Giacobbe. Photographs by Brianna Moore. During a late-winter road trip down south, Lisa Nardone, owner of Andover clothing boutique Gigi's, was doing her usual "comparison shopping" when she noticed the area's many consignment boutiques were bustling. Back home, Nardone's retail business, like most others in the area, had been experiencing a visible shift: shoppers were more hesitant to buy, and some weren't coming in at all. Says Nardone, an Andover native, "When I saw how busy the consignment shops were, it was like, duh." In the spring, she launched a consi
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