A couple of weeks ago, I posted an unusual episode of the “Dispatches from Fort Awesome” podcast (here), in which I interviewed Holly Haber, who runs reelclothes.com. Dispatches is normally a podcast about the sitcom NewsRadio, covering it episode by episode, but this was a fun exception. Holly has worked selling costumes from film and TV for more than thirty years, after inheriting the business from her mother, who started the business after seeing costumes go unnoticed and unused when productions were done with them. They’d then buy lots from studios and production companies and sell them in their physical store and, eventually, as today, online.
I discovered her website after beginning the podcast reignited a part of my fandom that I could finally afford to explore: buying stuff from the show. This was during a period when I had an office