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> **Original source:** https://www.luckysweater.com/how-it-works

Find what you love on the web. Buy it — and trade for everything else — in the app. Here’s the whole loop, start to finish.

## Welcome to your new favorite corner of the internet.

Lucky Sweater makes it easy — and genuinely fun — to trade, buy and sell your way to a more intentional closet, in community.

Live · Laugh · Trade1-of-1, always

-   More fit + style euphoriaLess closet boredom
-   More connectionLess doom-scrolling
-   More re-loveLess landfill

## It’s like a dating app for your closet.

Find your new closet crush, and give your old favorites new life.

1.  01
    
    ### Discover your next closet crush
    
    Every item on Lucky Sweater is real, secondhand and the only one of its kind. Browse the whole marketplace, or narrow down by group and by brand until something stops you mid-scroll.
    
2.  02
    
    ### Save it, sleep on it
    
    Every item is one of one, and the save icon is how you hold onto the ones you’re still thinking about. No countdowns here — your saves come with you into the app.
    
3.  03
    
    ### Take it to the app to buy it
    
    Anything with a price is for sale. Add it to your bag here and continue in the app — your bag and saves come with you — then pay in a few taps with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
    
4.  04
    
    ### Star it, match it, swap it
    
    Most closets are open for trade, not sale. Star what you love; get a star back and it’s a match. Offer something of your own, agree in the chat, and swap — no money required.
    
5.  05
    
    ### Find your people
    
    Join a group, share your looks, and follow the sellers whose taste you trust. The marketplace is how you arrive; the community is why you stay.
    

## On Tuesdays, we swap

Tuesdays are kind of a big deal around here. At noon PT — and earlier for Sustainers — a fresh wave of closet gems drops across every group. New things to discover, save and trade for, every single week.

## Three ways an item can live

Every item is owned by a member who decides how it moves. Selling is a layer on top of trading — so everything for sale is tradeable too.

Private

### Closet

Kept private, just for the owner. Never shown publicly anywhere.

In the app

### For trade

Open to swap in the app — the majority of everything on Lucky Sweater.

On the web

### For sale

Priced and buyable here on the web — and, because selling sits on top of trading, still tradeable too.

## How a trade actually works

Before there was a marketplace, there was the trade — and it’s still the heart of Lucky Sweater. Trading is free across every group; you only ever pay to ship your side of a swap.

[Read Trading 101 in the Blog](https://luckysweater.com/blog/trading-tips)

1.  1
    
    Find an item you love in someone’s closet.
    
2.  2
    
    Offer one (or more) of your own in return.
    
3.  3
    
    They accept, decline, or counter — it’s a conversation.
    
4.  4
    
    Agree, ship to each other, and leave a review.
    

## Live. Laugh. Trade.

Shop what’s for sale on the web, or get the app to trade for thousands more — and meet the community keeping it all in circulation.

[Get the app](https://go.luckysweater.com/0YXT?pid=website&c=how-it-works-handoff&deep_link_value=home&af_channel=storefront)[Start shopping](https://luckysweater.com/shop)