confessions of a thriftoholic: Turtle Necks Are Still Cool Right?

I love shopping. I Also love saving money and sometimes the two seem difficult to mix. This is why I love thrift stores. You are doing yourself and the world a big favour by shopping thrift. First of all, you save a tonne of money, second, you are reusing instead of throwing out and item, and third, Almost every thrift store uses some or all of the money to give back to a community.

At least once per week before I leave my work, I browse through the dresses. I love dresses. And brooches. I don't love every dress, but if it is knee length, a-line, and has a great neck line and has some sort of shape to it, I'll love it.

So today as I browsed through the dresses, I found this interesting brown plaid dress. It looked wearable on the hanger, but it did look a little out dated. So I took it with me to the change rooms. I've had some luck with out dated looking dresses in the past.

Anyways I tried it on. sleeves were a bit tight but as Stacy and Clinton from TLC's What Not To Wear, you can always tailor an outfit to make it fit to your body.

I also had to resew the hem just to make it a little sturdier as it looked hand stitched...but loosely hand-stitched

It may need a second layer of fabric in the skirt since it might be slightly see-through...not too sure about that yet.

The dress is made by designer Jonathan Logan. I had no idea who this was, but then I looked him up and I still didn't know who he was but his dresses are all really beautiful! I do know now that J.L was a company formed in the 1940's and designed classy dresses geared towards young ladies. Also if you look up his dresses on ebay, they sell anywhere between $150 and $250 these days.

I paid: $4.00. Sweet.

My Jonathan Logan dress.

I also made some other purchases somewhat recently.

I bought this great turtle neck. Those are still cool right? I think this one belonged to a very hip grandma. I only assume that because someone had sewn in shoulder pads and I don't think those have made a definite come back yet. So I removed them...but I will hold on to them in case that style does return, that way I can claim that I had them long before anyone else.

granny's turtle neck.

cost: $ 4.00. Not bad.

And then I purchased, this AMAZING sweater dress thing. It's by tna, and its a mix of a bunch of different wools. Plus it has that great big collar on it and it's super warm because of all the sheep and llamas that donated their wool to make it. .