My favorite place to shop is the thrift store.<\/p>\n
I’m an absolute sucker for fabric (“yardage”), books, and vintage clothing. <\/p>\n
Even when I already own twenty plus yards of double knit, when I see another couple yards sitting in a bin for fifty cents a yard, I just know<\/i> that I need it for that amazing double knit quilt I’ve got hanging around in my head. And vintage patterns? Who can resist, even if the sizing is wrong? (I have a dressmaker’s curve–unfortunately I haven’t made myself that dress form I keep saying I’m going to make to make fitting easier.)<\/p>\n
Books. You know how much I love them. I used to buy them indiscriminately, ending up with multiple copies of the same book because I wasn’t sure whether I already owned them or not. Now I have the titles of maybe 2\/3 of my collection (the fiction and the “religious” books) on a file on my Kindle so I can double check whether I already own something or not. Still, I find myself uber-tempted to buy duplicates just for the sheer love of books.<\/p>\n
And clothes. <\/p>\n
Honestly, I’m not a clothes horse in the traditional sense of the term. I’m not about keeping up on the trends or being fashion-forward or anything. But I do like browsing through the used store racks.<\/p>\n
Most often, I’ll stop in my flipping to muse “Hey, that’s cute” over a dress or skirt. Then my fingers will slip inside to bare the tag. <\/p>\n
Size 2.<\/p>\n
Definitionally cute. As in, small.<\/p>\n
Why do the clothes that little petite things wear appeal to me so much? <\/p>\n
I’m neither fat nor big-boned, but some of those cute little things couldn’t fit over a single one of my thighs. <\/p>\n
But they’re so cute<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Tiny, adorable, I-probably-couldn’t-have-fit-them-when-I-was-eight.<\/p>\n
Which is probably why I stick with vintage.<\/p>\n
Despite the evidence that today’s people are much fatter than yesteryear’s, I tend to find vintage that fits (or that I can take in just a bit to make it fit). <\/p>\n
Why is that?<\/p>\n
Maybe they just used more fabric in the olden days.<\/p>\n
Yes, I’m going to guess that’s it.<\/p>\n
Not like the cute things they sell these days which would never<\/i> cover my (even my<\/i> otherwise rather inadequate) bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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