🎧 Pre-Loved Podcast with Erika Veurink

writer of Long Live and founder of EV Salon

Brand New Episode of Pre-Loved Podcast!

There’s a brand new episode of Pre-Loved Podcast out, wherever you stream shows!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with

Erika Veurink

, a writer, the founder of EV Salon, and a brand consultant who lives in Brooklyn by way of Iowa. You may know Erika from her Substack, Long Live, where she writes about clothes – mostly pre-loved – and shares secondhand shopping recommendations.

We chat about fashion writing, 90s J.Crew catalogs and Nora Ephron movies as muse, and why all the best thrift shopping is here in Iowa.

I think you’re really gonna love it – so let’s dive right in!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [5:03] Erika’s career journey as fashion writer, and how it led her to Long Live.

• [9:26] 90s J.Crew catalogs as fashion inspiration.

• [12:13] What Erika has learned from 3 years on Substack, writing about personal style.

• [17:38] Erika loves an online secondhand shop

• [26:16] A Vera Bradley revival?

• [36:50] Erika is the founder of EV Salon, a community that brings like-minded communities together for in-person connection.

EPISODE MENTIONS:

• erikaveurink

• Long Live on Substack

• Erika’s letter on JCREW catalogs

• Nora Ephron movies as a source of fashion inspiration

• Erika’s letter about why buying more won’t help

• Thanks, It’s From eBay (

  Thanks It's From
  )

• WORN in Des Moines

• BODE

• Sarah Spellings

• Sarah’s piece on brown diamonds

• Tariro Makoni of

  trademarked
  on Substack

• Mandy Lee (Old Loser in Brooklyn)

  Cyclical
  on Substack

Hope you enjoy the episode! -Emily | Pre-Loved Podcast 💛