Just gonna put all my recent exploits in one post.

- First (#1-4), I thrifted some boring skirts to bum around in. 2-3 are actually the same skirt, which is reversible.

- Then, I went to a fancy tag sale to benefit services for homeless people, where for a total of $25 I acquired three silk scarves that I have not attempted to de-wrinkle before photographing, a very heavy necklace (hematite?), and this top that my partner hates but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Maybe it’s better with the patterned skirt even though it seems like an awful lot going on? Maybe I should try removing the sleeves?? Maybe it was a mistake altogether?
The paisley scarf is Liberty and the loveliest soft silk and I was going to give it to my mother until I remembered she doesn’t like brown (though arguably it’s orange?) but I couldn’t leave it behind. She WILL like the white one, which has a vintage-looking label that says “Alec Brook” and may have been meant as a men’s scarf? At any rate, this Brook fellow seems to have been a table tennis champion who also headed a manufacturer of sports-themed neckties in the UK. Mom is a mean table tennis player herself.

- #11 In NY, I tried on this super cool skirt. Partly to see if I could really comport myself like someone who would consider casually buying a $500 skirt. However, I am not.

- #12 The bride! She was wearing Converse sneakers with that dress, the better to tromp around town.

- #13-17 These cool pinafore/dress things were part of an excellent textile art show at MOMA.

- It truly grieves me to disappoint everyone but I did NOT end up buying the black and pink vintage dress. Despite the enthusiasm here, everyone I showed it to who knows me in real life said they could not see me ever wearing it. Indeed, I could not really imagine a scenario where it would be worn besides, like, Rosh Hashanah at a somewhat snobby synagogue in 1986 (ohhhh … this may throw some light on my mental hangup about this item, coughcoughmovingrightalong). When I went back to try it on again, the sleeves seemed so uncomfortable as well as not really my thing aesthetically. ALAS. (And the other, less spectacular but easier-to-wear dress I’d been considering there was gone.)

- I also visited what must be the most expensive “thrift” shop in the known universe (Cure Thrift in the East Village). I almost bought a book there but decided I was too offended by the whole business.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk! lol