Let Thrift shopping thrive in 25!

Miró

……..and flying through Ripon this morning just happened to pop in to the YMCA shop and picked up a LBD, Autograph, with a beaded front effect thingy going on. £7.50.  Does anyone ever wear a LBD these days?  Does anyone ever dress up these days? 🫤. So sad to see the lovely Booths Supermarket is now closed next door….gonna be a boring old Tesco!

DigForVictory

I was all dressed up for goddaughter's wedding on Friday - styled by Barnardo's & utterly thankful! Some lassies were in stunning silks (and if they think that's semi-formal, gawd alone knows what they'd wear to a formal bash - corset & diamonds?!), many in floral summer frocks of all lengths & m'goddaughter's brothers & father herded by the matriarch into suits (& devastating handsome too). As the evening settled in, quite a few of the family slipped into something less restrictive but the party rolled on - happily dancing & singing along with Meatloaf Bat out of Hell - not the most obvious wedding song but the whole family & most of the guests knew & joined in!
I do not habitually dress up, being an idle so-&-so, (to say nothing of struggling to find anything that turns up to fit my lack of height) but it was a smashing bash & I was thankful of all the encouragement I received here. 
Ethically, I will donate the frock & fascinator back, to go on to solve someone else's sartorial agonies. As am I likely to wear it again? Er, no. It's washed & dried & I hung onto the label so it'll look as new as when I tried it on. Some giraffe might give it a whole new look, or another short round woman be thankful!    

Floss

Miró said

..🫤. So sad to see the lovely Booths Supermarket is now closed next door….gonna be a boring old Tesco!

Is that because it's too expensive for daily shopping? Booths is a lovely experience but I would avoid spending in there on a regular basis when I lived on the Fylde coast.

Rosa_Damascena

I made up for a lack of chazzer satisfaction on Saturday on Sunday. Inspired by another OS thread I bought this for £15: https://drewandcole.com/products/pressure-king-pro-3l/

And another couple of books to add to my shelf on war / history:

Miró

Floss said:

Miró said

..🫤. So sad to see the lovely Booths Supermarket is now closed next door….gonna be a boring old Tesco!

Is that because it's too expensive for daily shopping? Booths is a lovely experience but I would avoid spending in there on a regular basis when I lived on the Fylde coast.

Yes probably is.....but there is a lot of disposable income sloshing around the Ripon/Thirsk/Northallerton area!  It was always very quiet in there in terms of customers though, (probably why I liked it so much) and the cafe was lovely.

@DigForVictory  The wedding sounds lovely and I bet you looked fabulous!!!

Floss

@Miró I'm meeting my son in Otley on Saturday, could you tell me which chazzers are where please? We're meeting at O'Deli as he's GF.

DigForVictory

I may have looked fabulous but I lament any Booths closing as I adore the "Oo!" you only get in Booths. The typographic beauty, those wonderful black bags for life that went with everything (even the drystone wall patterned ones were eye-catching and graceful), their brilliant totes (the pie who loved me, the cake district & many others) which have saved me no end of ineffectual screaming at wrapping paper, the orange juice pressing machines (my Inner Toddler just stands & boggles happily).... I depend on the well heeled ladies who lunch to keep them afloat, as I go for the rare-&-then-discounted treats for Christmas stockings & (of course) the coffee.
Also they tend to be ferociously well located - one handy for a Preston hospital, another for a warehouse charity shop, yet another for the yearly exchange of greetings, cards & Christmas cake tins with a loved cousin whom I adore but its just Easier to meet at Booths...