StyleEase – AI-Ready Thrift Store Platform

This paper presents the complete design, development, and implementation of StyleEase, an AI-ready thrift store platform developed to promote sustainable fashion and second-hand commerce through a secure digital marketplace. The system enables users to buy, sell, and donate pre-owned products while ensuring administrative verification and structured workflow management. The platform aims to reduce textile waste, encourage circular economy practices, and provide an accessible marketplace for affordable fashion. The proposed system is implemented as a full-stack web application using React.js for the frontend, Node.js with Express.js for the backend, and a relational or NoSQL database for persistent storage. The architecture is designed to be AI-ready, allowing future integration of recommendation engines, dynamic pricing systems, fraud detection modules, and intelligent chat support. This paper discusses system architecture, implementation methodology, module design, evaluation metrics, limitations, and future enhancements.