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Mum and I have been enjoying some excellent Goodwill windfalls lately. For the record, approximately eighty percent of my wardrobe was purchased at Goodwill. Goodwill is brilliant. Our area has a sub-chain of Goodwills, I guess, all under the same management, and they have deals with department stores and things, which means brand-new-with-tags things for a few dollars. Also they have sales. Thrift store sales! Best ever! Every other weekend or so they have an Everything In The Store Is Half Off sale. Which is what my mother and I were taking advantage of when we found... The Coat.
I have actually been sorely in need of a winter coat. One would surmise that a north-eastern town subject to cold and occasionally bitter winters would be rife with warm coats. Not so. Oh, coats aplenty, but they're all fashion coats with no decent wool content at all. Except for the ones that are hideously expensive and/or just hideous in general. So I wore this beige courderoy thing with fuzz on the inside most of the winter, but the buttons kept falling off, and eventually I gave up, wore several sweaters, my trenchcoat, and my giant wool Ravenclaw scarf every time I had to bicycle to work.
So, I've already looked through the racks of coats at Goodwill. I don't remember seeing this one at all, but we're getting ready to leave and Mum's sweeping through it once more and pulls this thing out, and omg, it is made of (real?) fur and it's cosy and magnificent and looks brand new. And I try it on and it's really comfortable and also gorgeous and warm and, um, also four dollars. So we buy it, and I am well pleased. Later, Mum Googles the information on the tag, and apparently it is a vintage coat from the sixties from some designer who was fairly popular, but I guess they went out of business? And apparently their coats ended up in warehouses or something because a lot of sites like eBay and Etsy are selling virtually new ones. So: my coat is made of... either real fur or really quality fake fur, because the tag says that if we need to clean it we take it to a furrier, and it's silk lined. Also someone is selling the exact same coat in brown for two hundred dollars.
Probably our best Goodwill find ever.
Something you may or may not know is that I have a gothic streak a mile wide, and it really comes out in the autumn.
I'll do the fashion blogger thing here --
blouse - Rue 21![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bornofstars linked me to Wish Wish Wish ages ago, and I've gleaned loads of inspiration in regards to putting together outfits that are both quirky and professional. (And I really, really want to make something like this... only I need more lace and ribbons.) Miss Thumbelina posts all kinds of whimsical and otherworldly outfits and her own paintings. And Some Girls Wander is brimming with the kinds of quirky, rich vintage fashions I covet like mad. Also I should like to have her hair.
I have actually been sorely in need of a winter coat. One would surmise that a north-eastern town subject to cold and occasionally bitter winters would be rife with warm coats. Not so. Oh, coats aplenty, but they're all fashion coats with no decent wool content at all. Except for the ones that are hideously expensive and/or just hideous in general. So I wore this beige courderoy thing with fuzz on the inside most of the winter, but the buttons kept falling off, and eventually I gave up, wore several sweaters, my trenchcoat, and my giant wool Ravenclaw scarf every time I had to bicycle to work.
So, I've already looked through the racks of coats at Goodwill. I don't remember seeing this one at all, but we're getting ready to leave and Mum's sweeping through it once more and pulls this thing out, and omg, it is made of (real?) fur and it's cosy and magnificent and looks brand new. And I try it on and it's really comfortable and also gorgeous and warm and, um, also four dollars. So we buy it, and I am well pleased. Later, Mum Googles the information on the tag, and apparently it is a vintage coat from the sixties from some designer who was fairly popular, but I guess they went out of business? And apparently their coats ended up in warehouses or something because a lot of sites like eBay and Etsy are selling virtually new ones. So: my coat is made of... either real fur or really quality fake fur, because the tag says that if we need to clean it we take it to a furrier, and it's silk lined. Also someone is selling the exact same coat in brown for two hundred dollars.
Probably our best Goodwill find ever.
Something you may or may not know is that I have a gothic streak a mile wide, and it really comes out in the autumn.
I'll do the fashion blogger thing here --
blouse - Rue 21
skirt - thrifted
stockings - after-Halloween clearance at, like, Kmart or something
shoes - thrifted, originally from Rue 21
cross choker - Claire's
cameo - Blue Moon Beads at Michael's, chain appropriated from another necklace
On the subject of fashion blogging, and so that this isn't All About How Cool My Stuff Is, any favourite fashion bloggers? I particularly like reading blogs that aren't all about The Fashion Industry, and What's In, but show ways to reimagine outfits, make things of your own, and aren't afraid to be a little eccentric. bornofstars linked me to Wish Wish Wish ages ago, and I've gleaned loads of inspiration in regards to putting together outfits that are both quirky and professional. (And I really, really want to make something like this... only I need more lace and ribbons.) Miss Thumbelina posts all kinds of whimsical and otherworldly outfits and her own paintings. And Some Girls Wander is brimming with the kinds of quirky, rich vintage fashions I covet like mad. Also I should like to have her hair. 
