I’ll never forget the time I brought one of the editors of Allure magazine to a secondhand shop. She looked around at the clothing tightly packed on racks, sorted by color and garment category rather than by designer or trend. She was lost. “How do you…do this?” she asked. I was already halfway buried in a pile of caftans. That was 15 years ago. I would bet that today she is quite at home in vintage stores, now that “pre-owned” clothing has become a part of every chic woman’s wardrobe, not just for drag queen-adjacent types like me. She would love Vintage Paris Couture: The French Woman’s Guide to Shopping, a new book out from Universe (an imprint of Rizzoli New York). It’s a comprehensive, yet easy-to-digest guide to stores from the super-expensive couture reseller Didier Ludot, in Palais Royal, to the cheapo emporium Momo Le Moins Cher, in the 20^th arrondissement, where items start at one euro. Writer Jessica Clayton zones in on each store’s strength. Zoa, in the 10^th, is the only store in the city that carries kids’ vintage exclusively, while others zero in on lace, say, or the 1970s. The Allure editor and I could spend months visiting stores mentioned in the book, and maybe even never run into each other.