jane
Well-Known Member
As threatened.
What, my friends, are your latest purchases? This is a thread for bragging about bargain buys as well as non-bargain things you just had to have.
I'll go punch myself in the fucking head now. I've become everything I always hated.
*dies*
HOWEVER, I got a couple of pencil skirts for dirt cheap in Rome: two in markets for three quid apiece, and two for a tenner each in a very strange shop in Trastevere. One of them is from the early 1970s and so pre-dates spandex, which means it's cut properly and appears to have been anticipating my arrival in Rome in 2006 because it couldn't be a better fit.
I also found a beautiful 1950s silk/satin and beaded dress with a fucking pink taffeta lining that would make the baby Jesus cry. 13 quid because the zip is broken. It's the sort of thing that would be on the Prohibitively Expensive Rack at your local second hand shop, but I dug it out of a pile of totally icky crap at the Via Sannio market. It was hidden in a heap of mammoth dirndls and polyester blouses.
Also, a Romeo Gigli blouse marked down from 360 euro to 50 quid, which I still can hardly get over. The place where I bought that was an absolute wonderland. Sadly, the Marc Jacobs from the full-price section upstairs did not appear to make it to the bargain basement. Someday, perhaps.
What, my friends, are your latest purchases? This is a thread for bragging about bargain buys as well as non-bargain things you just had to have.
I'll go punch myself in the fucking head now. I've become everything I always hated.
*dies*
HOWEVER, I got a couple of pencil skirts for dirt cheap in Rome: two in markets for three quid apiece, and two for a tenner each in a very strange shop in Trastevere. One of them is from the early 1970s and so pre-dates spandex, which means it's cut properly and appears to have been anticipating my arrival in Rome in 2006 because it couldn't be a better fit.
I also found a beautiful 1950s silk/satin and beaded dress with a fucking pink taffeta lining that would make the baby Jesus cry. 13 quid because the zip is broken. It's the sort of thing that would be on the Prohibitively Expensive Rack at your local second hand shop, but I dug it out of a pile of totally icky crap at the Via Sannio market. It was hidden in a heap of mammoth dirndls and polyester blouses.
Also, a Romeo Gigli blouse marked down from 360 euro to 50 quid, which I still can hardly get over. The place where I bought that was an absolute wonderland. Sadly, the Marc Jacobs from the full-price section upstairs did not appear to make it to the bargain basement. Someday, perhaps.
