Tag Archives: thrift shopping
Silver Sensation
This type of fabric was developed so that garments can be made that look like crochet, without actually being crocheted. It’s called “cut-and-sew knits.” Don’t ask how I know this. All I know this this particular cut-and-sew crochet fabric was … Continue reading
Feeling Cute in My 3-Piece Suit
Let’s face it. The 70’s are like shooting fish in a bucket.
Looking Dreamy in Creamy
It tends to frustrate me while shopping for Pepe finds, to pull a hideous garment off a shelf, hand it to Alexis to model, and find that it instantly looks fantastic on her perfect bod despite the heinousness of the … Continue reading
Return of the Sisterwife
I don’t have to say much about this dress. So I won’t. Except to say that I did actually wear something similar when I was about 11. But I was 11 and it was the early 80’s. This dress is … Continue reading
Ode to a Sweatervest
Ode to a Sweatervest O sweatervest that hast no voice, confide to me a voice, O harvest of the closet — O boundless knitted sack, O lavish appliqued scarecrow design — O infinite teeming autumnal embroidery, A song to narrate … Continue reading
Shorts Suit Special
There was this time just after the 80’s when the we felt a rustling of change in the stratosphere. When Pearl Jam and Nirvana were starting to steal the airwaves from Debbie Gibson and New Kids on the Block. The … Continue reading
Enmeshed
Mommy make it stop! Please make it not be a shit-brown background with gigantic muted blue and tan roses and swirly swashes of orange and puke green. Please make the atrocious pattern not be printed on stretch mesh. And please … Continue reading
Scissor Shredded Sister
There are a lot of things I don’t understand about this world. I dont understand how people can be cruel to children. I don’t understand why people think God wants them to wage war. I don’t understand why the ads … Continue reading
Hairy Jacket
Alexis is smiling so sweetly while she models this hairy leopard print blouse/jacket. Little was she to know that seconds later this garment prickled to life and devoured her, limb by limb, in a symphony of carnage the likes of … Continue reading
50’s style 80’s
Is it a coat? Is it a dress? I don’t care, just stuff them shoulders, slap a big ole poodle over the top and call it a day!