What I like about the thrift deal, well several things really.... I love how I go for one thing, never find it, but find five other things. Just the other day I was shopping at the local one (you have to go all the time, its like a hit and run deal, anything good moves fast, so I go in at least once a week for about 5 minutes, which is easy when its right around the corner) and found an old WWII vintage, coffee cup from the Union Pacific dinner service for a buck.
Older stuff - also sometimes called 'vintage' and priced higher - is way cool to me. I like some of the older cuts, fabrics and patterns, 60s/70s stuff for the most part, and the best you can do at a real store is to get some 'updated' version, for more money, and its never right, its always a copy.
In the beginning I liked that I could try on tons of outfits and looks. Face it, we did not grow up doing that trial and error thing with fashion, so we have to go through it now. Most women (though for sure, not all) learn pretty early on what looks good on them in terms of fabric, cut, style, color and stick with it. But someone like me comes to this thinking in terms of the big piles of dresses and cute outfits that I wanted to wear at some point - if only for a moment - at some time in my life, only to find out that most are not fit for public consumption. I have several girls I have shopped with and all they have to do is raise an eyebrow for me to know that its not a fashion choice made in heaven ---- but hey, at least I got to try it on once and see.
And never shoes, my feet are weird and shoes mold to the users foot and used ones aren't very good. Underwear --- It's against health codes in most places to sell used bathing suits, panties/underpants. I do have a real fondness for vintage slips from the 40s and 50s, and those I will buy.
