Charity Shopping - New to You in '22!

Pollycat

A tad off-topic...but just putting my coat away from yesterday and I wondered if anyone else likes brooches?
I have a brooch on every coat and if I get rid of one or buy another (coat), they all come out and I swap the brooches around.
The one on the teddy coat I've just bought was a birthday gift from my wonderfully thoughtful sister.
When we meet up, we watch Bargain Hunt and this was one of the items the team looked at.
I said' I'd buy that and wear it'.
She stored the thought away and trawled through eBay until she found one.
It's a copy of a George Jensen style:
originals on eBay for anything up to £690. 

I keep hearing on antiques programmes that brooches are out of fashion.

Rosa_Damascena

Pollycat said:

A tad off-topic...but just putting my coat away from yesterday and I wondered if anyone else likes brooches?
I have a brooch on every coat and if I get rid of one or buy another (coat), they all come out and I swap the brooches around.
The one on the teddy coat I've just bought was a birthday gift from my wonderfully thoughtful sister.
When we meet up, we watch Bargain Hunt and this was one of the items the team looked at.
I said' I'd buy that and wear it'.
She stored the thought away and trawled through eBay until she found one.
It's a copy of a George Jensen style:
originals on eBay for anything up to £690. 

I keep hearing on antiques programmes that brooches are out of fashion.

So hang onto it until they are back in fashion and then sell it!

I like brooches as I get older - they are just a nice way to dress up an autumn shawl or jacket - but I also accept I am hurtling towards my "Rita Fairclough" days! Unfortunately I have lost more than I would like, somehow they just drop off shawls without me even noticing. Pins seem more secure.

Pollycat

Will never sell it.

I love brooches and don't care if they are in fashion or not.
Many years of wearing Doc Marts and leggings before they became 'fashionable' has given me a 'I don't care what you think of my outfit' attitude. 
 

Wednesday2000

Pollycat - I like it although I don't wear them myself. I wear necklaces more than anything else.:)

I haven't been in a charity shop for well over a week! My husband went to Les & Garys the other day to buy some speakers and I meant to ask him if that new charity shop was open yet.

Brie

YoungBlueEyes said:

That reminds me. I also took a photo of the scarves. There was nothing startling there I don’t think, but I liked the robin ones (bottom left corner). 

So here you go - a bit of scarf p0rn for ya Brie. 

Mom had a very similar robin scarf we'd bought her in Cornwall years back.  She was greatly amused by it as robins in Canada for very different and never seen in the winter.  

As for the others.....so near and yet so far!  I'd be having a good look at the pink to brown one myself.  The sort of thing I'd need to feel to decide if I might actually want to wear it.  Next test is sniff (clean enough and without too much perfume - though I do wash things....).  Then is it the right shape - I want my scarves to be long and slim (unlike me, well I'd like me to be long and slim but I ain't!)

Miró

Not really a brooch person but I do have three that i love, a cameo, an art deco stylee one and a bar type with a small diamond.  @Pollycat, really love yours tho!

Thought I had got a nice buy today in one of the Thirsk chazzas.  A Ted Baker top, BNWT’s and £6.99.  Like the look of it but it feels horrible on, made me feel really cold and clammy, (100% polyester natch!).  Might end up returning it! 

YoungBlueEyes

I have erm a few scarves… I only buy another one now if I can’t match one to an outfit or if it’s something really lovely and worth it. 

I nearly bought the robin one but it was a ‘cotton mix’. I try to only buy proper fabrics cos I’ve such sensitive skin. I’m too old/picky to be ‘making do’ and putting up with ‘not quite right’ nonsense 😁

wondercollie

I love that cardigan!   I have a bad habit of buying them, every shade you can imagine and then patterns for flowers to animal print.   I do tend to wear a teeshirt of some description under them.

Found a charity run book store in one of our local malls.   The books are cheaper there than in Value Village but still expensive by your prices.  $4 for paperback and $6 for a hardback.   I'd rather give the money to the hospital based charity than VV as they are very for profit set of thrift stores, yes, some goes back they are still paying out a lot to administrators.

We have Robins year round in my part of  Canada, I've always wondered by they dont migrate during winter but they are pretty hardy

liberty_lily

Miró said:

Not really a brooch person but I do have three that i love, a cameo, an art deco stylee one and a bar type with a small diamond.  @Pollycat, really love yours tho!

Thought I had got a nice buy today in one of the Thirsk chazzas.  A Ted Baker top, BNWT’s and £6.99.  Like the look of it but it feels horrible on, made me feel really cold and clammy, (100% polyester natch!).  Might end up returning it! 

They had those Ted Baker 'cardigans' in our TK Maxx recently - for around £50 iirc - but whilst pretty, they were too silky to be a proper cardy, iyswim. It's the type of thing my mum would've loved so I'd not choose it anyway for fear I was turning into her 😆

Sadly, our charity shops are pretty rubbish. I miss the ones in Ludlow which always used to have some good stuff!

Love Pollycat's brooch, btw 😍 although I'm also not a brooch person...don't think I own a single one these days although I did have some huge diamanté ones in the late '80s when I was a student 😀 

Wednesday2000

liberty_lily said:

Love Pollycat's brooch, btw 😍 although I'm also not a brooch person...don't think I own a single one these days although I did have some huge diamanté ones in the late '80s when I was a student 😀 

Pics or it didn't happen!