What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Pollycat

Potternerd wrote: »

A kag in a bag for £2 and a pair of bnwt leggings for £2 original price was £54!!! Who on earth would pay that for leggings? They were on the rail for the same price as Primark in the CS which seemed a bit odd. Also this wasn't CS but I was dead chuffed to find a Sea Folly tankini top in blue, black and white stripes so easy to match in my size in TK Maxx. For £5. Obviously I'm not going to be wearing it at the moment but will put away for next summer��

WOW!
What brand were they?

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I think we should be naming and shaming.

I think I already have earlier on in the thread.

GreyQueen

janb5 wrote: »

Look beautiful Greyqueen- wonder why the cs put them on the bargain rail?

It wasn't the bargain rail, that's the usual price for clothes in this particular chazzer, which is one of the reasons I shop there. The other is the very many lovely people who volunteer there, it's a joy to pop in, which I do several times a week if I have the time.

Just about everything I have ever bought from a chazzer has been sub-£5 and most sub-£3 and, with regular visits and patience, I find I can dress pretty well.

Not as well as if I was a size 12 and 5 inches shorter, but there are a limited number of lanky ladies out there donating, but I do very well, when all's considered.:rotfl:

Bogof_Babe

GreyQueen wrote: »

It wasn't the bargain rail, that's the usual price for clothes in this particular chazzer, which is one of the reasons I shop there. The other is the very many lovely people who volunteer there, it's a joy to pop in, which I do several times a week if I have the time.

Just about everything I have ever bought from a chazzer has been sub-£5 and most sub-£3 and, with regular visits and patience, I find I can dress pretty well.

Not as well as if I was a size 12 and 5 inches shorter, but there are a limited number of lanky ladies out there donating, but I do very well, when all's considered.:rotfl:

You probably get better choices than those of us of average height, because there's more competition for us!

GreyQueen

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

You probably get better choices than those of us of average height, because there's more competition for us!

Nah, I could cry at all the lovely clothes I've had to pass on because they were 10s or 12s (I'm a 16) and the lovely trousers and jackets which were my size but were in a short or regular trouser length - finding a 34 inside leg ain't easy.

Tried on a superb chazzer jacket last week, everything perfectly fitting apart from the sleeves which were 3 inches too short and looked absurd. Pants!

Potternerd

The leggings were from a company called A Post Card from Brighton. I looked on line and they had sold out of my leggings, astonishingly! A lot of other stuff was on sale at half price. They have zips at the ankles but other than that they are plain black leggings.

charlies-aunt

GreyQueen wrote: »

Tried on a superb chazzer jacket last week, everything perfectly fitting apart from the sleeves which were 3 inches too short and looked absurd. Pants!

Unless the garment is a Petite brand or sized as short - its always worth checking inside the sleeve cuff of standard sized coats and jackets to see if the sleeve has been taken up or if there is sufficient material turned under to length the sleeve.

GreyQueen

I did check and I could have eased a little fabric out of the seam but nowhere near enough to make up the shortfall and, as this was a tailored formal jacket, it needed to look correct. But it's a good thought to share as I mightn't have thought to do that.

Many's the time I have let down the hem of trousers and given them a false hem with bias binding, it order to make them work for me.

Oh, and I got a ziploc bag full of bias binding this week as well, lots of different colours and widths for 75p. I always buy things like that because I do end up using them in repairs and alterations and like to have them on hand rather than running up and down the road to thew sewing shop. Where I get stuck in the queue behind the lady who is buying 999 meters of fabric for an entire wedding party's worth of frocks.

Or at least, that's what it feels like to me.

Pollycat

Pollycat wrote: »

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Off to the city today for charity shopping and a few different pubs.
Want black at least bum-length tops (to wear with aforementioned leggings/jeggings/treggings), short and long sleeved.

Will probably come home with a sleeveless tropical summer dress.

Finally, I've found a M&S black velvet long sleeved top. It's not the stretchy velvet, more the old fashioned type with no stretch in it
£1.00 Air Ambulance.

And a navy jersey George top with chiffon yoke front & back with 3/4 sleeves. Originally £2.79 in BHF but half price.

dolly84

I got two White Stuff jumpers for DH this weekend, one is a burnt orange 100% lambswool one, the type with the seams on the outside and the other is navy with thin white stripes on the body and plain sleeves this is cotton, £5.

dolly84

GreyQueen - my inside leg is 34" too. I will buy 36" leg in jeans though so I can cuff them and still have them ankle length.