FOR BALES OF OLD DICKIES

UDELCO 210 Sixth Ave., Hawthorne, N.J. udelcoinc.com

“when i first started dating my girlfriend,” says professional skateboarder Alexis Sablone, “she and her brother kept talking about how they needed to find someone with a car so they could go back to Udelco.” Udelco turned out to be a warehouse 20 miles outside Manhattan filled with stacked bales of old clothes, wire racks of shoes, and cardboard boxes of clothing roughly organized in categories like “Carhartt Jackets,” “Denim Shorts,” and “’80s Satin Shirts.” “Everything depends on what day you go,” Sablone says. “You might go one day and you’ll find boxes of workwear, then go back in a month and they’ll have an entire box of plaid pants. Last time we went, they had huge bins of old Dickies.” Udelco sells vintage wholesale to shop owners in New York but is also open to the public; most items are priced between $3 and $20, and when it’s time to check out, “the owner kind of just looks at your pile and names a number,” Sablone says. “It’s always pretty good.”