More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Magpie100

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Found today in local Sue Ryder - brand new with tags. Tags say £20 though I see it was selling on the Tu website for £6 at one point. Either way, I'm very happy - this will be a lovely dress for the next couple of months as it is long-sleeved which I'll appreciate in September, but light enough to wear now with sandals for work.

First time I have ever bought something from Tu (no big Sainsbury's near me) and I hear lots of people saying it's good value for money, so we'll see!

I was tempted by a Betty Barclays essentials brand new shirt (though I am sure it was from the BB outlet store near here) - cream with a black embroidered pattern with flowers - but it would have needed an undershirt and I wasn't quite sure about it so for once I was sensible and put it back! :rotfl:

dolly84

Yesterday I got DH a Superdry shirt in seafoam green with navy, white and light blue checks, £2 - it is XL and he is medium but this brand has crazy small sizings. For me a BNWT Lazy Jacks hoodie, buttons at the neck, pull on style, broad navy and white stripes, with pink drawstrings, pink hood lining and some other nice details £6, pricey but these are £50 ish new and it is the type of thing I wear a lot which is just as well as I own about 20 now.


Did leave a few other things including some 99p things as I just didn't need them and would only have bought because they were 99p.


Magpie - love that dress, I have a TU jersey dress and it is a favourite of mine.

Pollycat

Magpie100 wrote: »

First time I have ever bought something from Tu (no big Sainsbury's near me) and I hear lots of people saying it's good value for money, so we'll see!

Whenever anyone mentions TU, I always pop up with this:

Pollycat wrote: »

I know I've said this before but TU clothing is really good quality.
I have some jersey tunics and dresses and they match up to Monsoon and Per Una in quality.

Bargain from earlier in the week:
A Weird Fish cotton short sleeved shirt in cream, green, blue & biscuit big checks. 2 breast pockets which OH likes for holidays.
Looks new.
£1.00 on sale rail Age UK.

cbsexec

After moaning for ages about the lack of anything i wanted in our charity shops I managed to buy a per una top for £2 and a small leather Paul Costelloe bag for £4.99 Very pleased.

DigForVictory

Toured Oldham & Rawtenstall and came home clutching a Denby studio cream jug, various books & an audiobook I shall ebay once I've listened to it.
Little jug is cuddleable small and lovely in hand. ('Mugs' sadly also as small, dashit.)

Miró

Pollycat wrote: »

Whenever anyone mentions TU, I always pop up with this:

'Originally Posted by Pollycat View Post
I know I've said this before but TU clothing is really good quality.
I have some jersey tunics and dresses and they match up to Monsoon and Per Una in quality.'

Ooooh...talking of TU clothing...... a few days ago I found two 'Gok Wan for TU' dresses in the community chazza...looked as new and both priced at £5 each. They were both the sort that have a 'control' (squeezy!) slip lining. One was a formal, black, short sleeved fitted dress with a boat shaped neckline with a roll collar. I'm no expert but there was something seriously amiss with the collar...I think it needed to be cut on the cross in order to drape nicely and frame the face. It wasn't and didn't. Just stuck up with a weird foldy bit sticking out in front. Either a design or pattern cutting fault methinks. The second dress was in pale grey and cream wide horizontal stripes (!). Square neck and sleeveless and nice heavy knitted fabric. Unfortunately the side seams were wonky. In order to try and match the stripes they had pulled one side of the seam fabric which made the seam very bumpy and almost gathered. I was just very surprised at such obvious faults in the design/production/quality control of this line which is not exactly cheap despite being a supermarket range. Would have thought Gok Wan would have been more careful of his reputation. Perhaps he is just like many of the other designers/entrepeneurs, ([STRIKE]Jamie Oliver/Carluccio/Twiggy[/STRIKE]) who allegedly (legal cough) sell their name for the dosh and run

bsuije

Reading about everyone's finds made me itch to get to a charity shop and so I did a quick dash to a Mary's Living and Giving at lunchtime today.

Came away with the following:

- back and white fitted and flared Karen Millen dress for £12 (this one - https://www.google.com/search?q=black+and+white+karen+millen+dress&rlz=1C1GCEU_enGB835GB835&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_hvjiu_PjAhXObMAKHRNWCaYQ_AUIESgC&biw=1920&bih=969#imgrc=THQkvMM3t58dYM:)

- a patterned floaty Pepe Jeans top for £18; and

- a blue denim miniskirt from Bershka for £7.

Very pleased with the dress, a little less pleased with value of the rest, but my wardrobe is lacking good tops and a denim miniskirt, so I'm hoping to get lots of wear out of them. Itch scratched for now! :rotfl:

Miró

An unscheduled trip to Otley this afty proved fruitful....I think they have a Thursday delivery of new stock in the St Gemmas 99p shop and I just arrived in time for the stock going out on the rails. Came away with an M & S black georgette skirt with a flippy hem and a dull satin swirl down the front with little fabric flowers with black beads holding them on. Also got a BNWT knee length red jersey dress with an asymmetrical neckline with gathers on one side....will be perfect as a beach cover-up. Both 99p each

bobsa1

This weeks purchases have been small but pleasing. Today I got a village people lp for Dds Xmas stocking she will be delighted with it and it was the princely sum of £1. Earlier in the week I popped in to the £1 hospice shop and got a brass candle snuffer (dd2 Xmas stocking is it’s destination) a pretty ceramic olive oil pourer and a denby dinner plate as it’s bric a brac it was £1 for the 3.

Sadly I washed the knitted/ crotchet throw I bought last weekend and it was obviously proper wool as it shrank drastically and felted together. I could have cried. Anyway I have soaked it in baby shampoo water, pulled it, hand washed with fabric softener and pulled again and whilst it’s still considerably smaller than it was and of a much denser knit it will hopefully be useable

DigForVictory

Amidst all you very sharply turned out souls, a few of you let rip with a needle & thread on occasion. You did know the V&A have a free Mary Quant minidress pattern to download?

For those of us for whom the minidress is frankly unbecoming, the longer Georgie dress is in pattern testing & should be out in September likewise free. Fond as I am of designer labels, I may venture out & give that a go, as I can always donate it to a charity shop (with the Mary Quant designer details, naturally) if it becomes me not.