Category Archives: The best of the worst thrift store fashion
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!