JENNIFER PLATT | Used clothes stores are where I book out
But I’ll book in to a second-hand bookshop any day. The smell alone is a hook
13 July 2022 - 20:45
I recently discovered thrifting on Instagram. You can get ugly clothes there that are not at all cheap. There’s a site that sells granny jerseys, but it all smacks of scam. These knitwear items do not look as if they have death cooties. They do not look as if they were worn by Sophia in The Golden Girls. There’s no off-cream or apricot cable knit in sight. They look suspiciously new and are in lurid greens, purples and pinks, and some are off-shouldered and cropped. Hmmm .....
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