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VonKleist:
Would also be a great band name :)

Howdy-do, Chatterfolks?

Do you like vintage stuff?
Are you poor or just really stingy?
Don't see why you should pay more than 3 bucks for a sweatshirt?
Don't care if it´s dead folks' former belongings that some nursing home sold off en gros?
Oblivious off the fact that it has become some stupid hipster-clichée?

If I need something apart from jeans or sneakers I tend to go to charity-stores or second hand-stores to buy stuff.
My new polo sweater thingy has a nametag sewn inside saying it belonged to one "Walter Richarz". I don't really mind, but it is kind of odd.

Anyway I got these excellent brown wingtips the other day for next to nothing and I´m super psyched.

Soo, get anything good?

nekowafer:
I was looking for pants, which is difficult for me, as it is for most women. But it is especially difficult at a thrift store, because they do a terrible job of separating the plus size stuff. And I have a huge ass. So anyway, I see this pair of jeans that look really comfortable and awesome and...

they're a halter top catsuit. Like this, but in fake denim.

Sassy!

In a very large size. I ended up cutting the halter top section off and just wearing them as jeans.

VonKleist:
Yee, catsuit!
Imagine me doing a constructioworker-ish whistle (only from between my front-teeth because I can't whistle properly) :D

Where I shop they do a terrible job at keeping any sizes seperated, and since I´m skinny and 5′ 10″ I have to look hard for stuff that fits anyway because a lot of people either like their clothes baggy or are way taller and bigger than me. Always pitiful when you find that perfect "thing" but it´s 5 sizes too large :O

nekowafer:
Yeah usually I have that issue in reverse, I will find awesome clothing that is way too small for me. But occasionally I do find amazing pants that are a couple sizes too big and I try, in vain, to figure out where they were bought originally.

Carl-E:
I needed a tux for the concert I sang in October (and again for the one in December). 

Now, I've been active in local theatre for years.  I had a tux shirt, and bowtie (real), but no tux. 

Our costume shop at the community theatre has sooo many castoff items - I was able to find both a jacket and pants (from different suits) that fit my bizarre body.  A cummerbund, too! 

I used to do more thrift store shopping, but now I just rewear the same damn stuff, or get given things by older male relatives.  Yes, I'm 50 and still wearing hand-me-downs...   :roll: :-P

Oh, but last winter I found a great insulated coverall, which was good because I had to fix that broken water main in January...

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