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Speaker 2: Hello, out louders, it is Jesse here for your out
Speaker 2: Loud Sunday special. You know how much I love thrift shopping.
Speaker 2: I was just talking about it this week. It is
Speaker 2: my New Year's resolution. Today's episode is one that is
Speaker 2: going to give you all the hacks. Lee Campbell, who
Speaker 2: hosts our fashion podcast Nothing to Wear, knows all the
Speaker 2: tricks when it comes to thrifting. In this episode, Lee
Speaker 2: sits down with Mea and explains to her why she
Speaker 2: needs to start thrifting. I have been yelling exactly the
Speaker 2: same thing from the best stores. The secret to the
Speaker 2: art of thrifting and the mindset you need before diving in.
Speaker 2: If you are keen to start buying more secondhand, you
Speaker 2: will love this episode.
Speaker 1: Enjoy.
Speaker 3: Whoever said orange is the new pink with seriously diserved.
Speaker 4: Laurels for spraying groundbreaking?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you.
Speaker 3: Have to do it.
Speaker 4: You live for fashion. Hello and welcome to Nothing to Wear,
Speaker 4: the podcast that solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe.
Speaker 4: I'm Lee Campbell, and every week I chat to an
Speaker 4: expert who helps us to work out how to get
Speaker 4: more out of the clothes we already own and tells
Speaker 4: us exactly what is and what isn't worth adding to
Speaker 4: our wardrobe. There aren't many things that Mia Friedman and
Speaker 4: I don't agree on when it comes to fashion. We
Speaker 4: actually have a WhatsApp group where we constantly share ideas,
Speaker 4: outfits and items we think the other one should have
Speaker 4: from our own wardrobes.
Speaker 3: We swap clothes.
Speaker 4: But the one thing Mia just does not get that
Speaker 4: I love is thrift shopping. So for today's episode, I've
Speaker 4: invited Mia back onto the show to give her a
Speaker 4: little lesson on how I thrift, the best stores out there,
Speaker 4: and the sneaky bargains you can find. Before we get
Speaker 4: into the topic, what current fashion trend or trends do
Speaker 4: you find most exciting or inspired by?
Speaker 1: It would be track suits with jackets. I'm wearing that
Speaker 1: today as we see here, So wide legged tracksuits, or
Speaker 1: actually any tracksuits. I'm really enjoying making tracksuits.
Speaker 3: Formal doesn't feel naughty, yeah.
Speaker 1: And it feels also very comfortable. So I'm wearing some
Speaker 1: wide legged, navy added ass tracksuit pants with three lemon
Speaker 1: yellow stripes down the side, and I'm wearing some red
Speaker 1: and pale pink added as speciales which are like like
Speaker 1: soundbos kind of. I'm wearing one of the most expensive
Speaker 1: jackets I've brought in a really long time, like a
Speaker 1: suit jacket and then a T shirt. I love it
Speaker 1: and I just feel put together but also modern, yes.
Speaker 4: And not uniformy like the casual exactly, very cool, exactly,
Speaker 4: It's quite exciting.
Speaker 1: So I'm finding lots of different ways to inar my trackies.
Speaker 3: I did trackies with a kidney the other day, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: And I've also got a tracky reference with sort of sandals,
Speaker 1: like jeweled sandals and a jacket. There's something about where
Speaker 1: trackies with the jacket, particularly if you're traveling. Agree highly
Speaker 1: recommend getting through airports. It's comfortable, but it looks smart and.
Speaker 4: Can I get quickly ask you before we jump into
Speaker 4: it when you say a reference? Are you saving images?
Speaker 1: Somewhere in my mind? And funnily enough, I go back
Speaker 1: to this one image. There's this woman I follow, I've
Speaker 1: sent it to you. She does a substack newsletter called
Speaker 1: Mota Veritas. Her name's Irene Kim and she's a stylist
Speaker 1: in Canada, and she's really minimal. She reminds me of
Speaker 1: you a lot actually at the moment, and she did
Speaker 1: this thing, and I've bought a lot of things that
Speaker 1: I find from her. And that idea of the jacket
Speaker 1: with the tracksuit paths. I first saw it on her,
Speaker 1: and now of course I'm seeing it everywhere.
Speaker 3: Love it. Okay, so you're going to take over again.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take over because Lee, you and I
Speaker 1: have been having a conversation off Mike for quite some time.
Speaker 3: I forced you into this episode.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm very out of step with this
Speaker 1: and it's basically going to be convince me why I
Speaker 1: need to start thrifting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: So I don't know if this is a compliment, but
Speaker 4: a lot of people when they find out that I'm
Speaker 4: an avid thrift shop I go, oh, I didn't pick
Speaker 4: that for you.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Let's unpack that for a second.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm always surprised when I see you in something.
Speaker 1: And the other day I saw you wearing a great
Speaker 1: jumper in the office and it had a picture of
Speaker 1: bambiyond it, and I was like, that's so cool. Where
Speaker 1: is it? And you said it is Javoni and I
Speaker 1: thrifted it for sixty dollars sixty dollars, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you got to kiss a lot of frogs. There is
Speaker 1: when you find your prints in a thrift shop. And
Speaker 1: it's not like I've never thrifted. I used to really like.
Speaker 1: It's funny the difference between calling it vintage and thrifting.
Speaker 3: And there is a difference.
Speaker 1: We used to there was some good vintage shops I
Speaker 1: used to like to go and look through, and particularly
Speaker 1: back in the nineties where no one had sequence anywhere,
Speaker 1: and any time you wanted to buy sequence, you had
Speaker 1: to find them in a thrift shop or in a
Speaker 1: vintage shop. But I am going to just outline my
Speaker 1: objections before you convince me otherwise. Yes, it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of time. I get hay fever. I get dispirited
Speaker 1: quickly because I'm like, yucky, yucky, yucky, yucky. Oh this
Speaker 1: is quite nice, and then I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: have a mental blank with it.
Speaker 4: Look, it's definitely not for everyone. I was in Paris
Speaker 4: late last year and randomly met up with a friend
Speaker 4: from Australia. She happened to be there and I said,
Speaker 4: let's go thrifting, and she stood in the middle of
Speaker 4: the stores and held her coffee and she was just
Speaker 4: not it. And you can't force it. You're either a
Speaker 4: thrifterer or you're not. For me, it's the thrill of
Speaker 4: the hunt. I have adhd as. Do you diagnose medicated
Speaker 4: and when you have a hyper focus?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: What I like about it is I can't have other
Speaker 4: thoughts because I'm going ooh, oh, oh oh, and so
Speaker 4: it's kind of meditative for me. It's a type of
Speaker 4: therapy because if I'm just walking through a nicely styled store,
Speaker 4: I start thinking about my son's swimming. But at thrifting
Speaker 4: you have to concentrate so hard. So that's why I
Speaker 4: personally love it. I've always been like that with homewares,
Speaker 4: and the thing is it's just growing at a rapid rate,
Speaker 4: so it's all over TikTok. They predict that the global
Speaker 4: secondhand mark it will be worth three hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: billion dollars next year, which is ten percent of the
Speaker 4: global fashion market in its.
Speaker 1: Say, which is wonderful news because we know that fast
Speaker 1: fashion is a massive problem with landfill. The idea of
Speaker 1: buying cheap shit every single week and wearing something different
Speaker 1: all the time. This upcycling, recycling, that's great and.
Speaker 4: Look to be honest, a lot of it depending where
Speaker 4: you're going, and I'll break down the categorism. I mean,
Speaker 4: a lot of it is fast fashion that's in there.
Speaker 4: A lot of it is really cheap, nasty stuff. Some
Speaker 4: of it's great fast fashion that you might then give
Speaker 4: a second life. So it depends on how you look
Speaker 4: at it. But of course cost of living, crisis, circular economy,
Speaker 4: you are saving something from landfilm, helping the planet a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 1: Last time I spoke to you on the show, you
Speaker 1: mentioned a second Handzara skirt, which I thought was interesting
Speaker 1: because you would normally think about thrifting, or some people
Speaker 1: would looking for designer labels like Ladies Scallon Theater or
Speaker 1: a Zimmermann or something that's more of an exy label,
Speaker 1: not something that.
Speaker 3: Was totally last fashion.
Speaker 4: I think sometimes a great twenty dollars aar a skirt
Speaker 4: that you know was eighty nine ninety five probably three
Speaker 4: months ago. To me, that's still a really good bargain.
Speaker 4: I think Sarah of the high Street chain stores is
Speaker 4: pretty decent quality in that it's going to be okay
Speaker 4: for you to then repurchase that. There's a lot of ancho.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of you know, really really affordable stuff
Speaker 4: in these stores as well. Again a lot of searching,
Speaker 4: but then that's when you find the gold. So it's
Speaker 4: just it takes a lot of time, and also it's
Speaker 4: just good to get some original items that are not
Speaker 4: in every store everywhere.
Speaker 1: So where do you go because aren't the good places
Speaker 1: all shopped out?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Look in Sydney, Pennington Vinnie's is great, but you
Speaker 4: literally need to know when the drop is and it's
Speaker 4: very expensive because it's in Sydney's eastern suburb.
Speaker 1: How do those stores work? Is there like a central
Speaker 1: place that distributes out to all the different stores.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it depends on the store.
Speaker 4: And also generally there's a central place, but people still
Speaker 4: drop directly to store. So you've got your Vinis and
Speaker 4: your Red Cross and your Lifeline stores. This is in
Speaker 4: Sydney specifically, but there are ones around the country. And
Speaker 4: actually I'd love everyone to jump into the group and
Speaker 4: recommend great thrifting in their city or their town.
Speaker 3: So it depends.
Speaker 4: I find the vinis that are kind of a bit
Speaker 4: randomly in weird suburbs, or you happen to be somewhere
Speaker 4: that you're not normally can be great again hidden miss.
Speaker 4: You can't go in expecting to find a specific item
Speaker 4: or hoping to find just one thing. You might find
Speaker 4: nothing or three things. In Sydney there's chain called U Turn.
Speaker 4: They have about six stores. There's one in Bondo Junction,
Speaker 4: one out of Rozelle.
Speaker 1: They have a really great famous one in punch Bowl.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Both my teenagers, boy and a girl thrift and
Speaker 1: they go thrifting with their friends.
Speaker 3: Oh it's so much fun, big thing, even with the boys.
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I took Rich to U Turn and he's quite a
Speaker 4: thrift of it. He was overwhelmed. So you've got to
Speaker 4: be in the right mood. Savers just open to New
Speaker 4: South Wales. Savers are in pretty much every other state.
Speaker 4: It's out at Hoxton Park. I haven't been yet, but
Speaker 4: that's a ginormous warehouse of fashion, homewhere, toys, everything.
Speaker 3: I love your face.
Speaker 1: I'm just feeling overwhelmed. And the amount of time that
Speaker 1: it would take.
Speaker 3: Yes, it does.
Speaker 4: You have to set aside a few hours and look,
Speaker 4: other thing's clean. This is the thing mostly I mean,
Speaker 4: I think if you are going to donate to a
Speaker 4: thrift store, you need to think would I give this
Speaker 4: to marry my friend?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: If you're like ooh, then don't donate it. Unfortunately, it's
Speaker 4: probably going to end up in landfill. But these places
Speaker 4: are in undated, they don't need more. So unless it's
Speaker 4: good quality, in decent condition, you know, not covered in
Speaker 4: stains or whatever, don't donate it because no one's going
Speaker 4: to buy it.
Speaker 1: I want to ask about the changing body shapes. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that when you're talking about vintage clothes, so
Speaker 1: clothes that are from the sixties, seventies, eighties, the cuts
Speaker 1: of things are usually a bit different totally. How do
Speaker 1: you well?
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: So there's thrifting, which is kind of like your affordable stuff,
Speaker 4: but then there's vintage shopping, which again is probably more expensive.
Speaker 4: You've got your in Sydney. I've got a zoom pouring
Speaker 4: dolly up vintage sees, flashback blue spinach.
Speaker 3: That's a whole different mindset.
Speaker 4: When I'm thrifting and something is eight dollars, fifteen dollars,
Speaker 4: twenty dollars, I'm going in thinking can I alter it?
Speaker 3: Or can I wear it over size.
Speaker 1: Is it worth eyeing things that you have to alter.
Speaker 3: If you're thrifting depends on what it is, and it
Speaker 3: depends on your personality.
Speaker 1: I have, and how much your alterations going to cost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, rule of thumb, I try not to because I
Speaker 4: just haven't generally in these thrift stores. It's last week Sara, well,
Speaker 4: last year Zara. So it's still current shapes, current trends,
Speaker 4: current when I say current from the last five years.
Speaker 4: And then you've also got secondhand designer stores and websites
Speaker 4: that you might want to get a Chanelle bag or
Speaker 4: a Balenciaga shoe, and that is growing at a crazy
Speaker 4: rapid rate because there's some people that will wear a
Speaker 4: handbag for nine months, keep it in pristine condition, and
Speaker 4: you can get a half price. So thrifting is kind
Speaker 4: of all encompassing, but there's definitely sort of your op shops,
Speaker 4: your vintage, and then your circular designer.
Speaker 1: So what about online? Are there any good sites or
Speaker 1: accounts to follow for secondhand fashion on the lie?
Speaker 4: Yes, so you've got your Facebook marketplace. Of course, you've
Speaker 4: got eBay. A lot of people who are into fashion
Speaker 4: will upload and sell things on deepop which is basically
Speaker 4: just a marketplace that takes a small commission and then
Speaker 4: people just buy it and you post it and you
Speaker 4: can chat on the forum.
Speaker 1: I know some people here at Muma Mea who actually
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a side hustle selling things
Speaker 1: on deepot. That's good to Yeah, you can. You can
Speaker 1: make some good money. Again, it takes a little bit
Speaker 1: of time, yes, but you know, out of twenty things
Speaker 1: she's put on, just made about one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 4: And if it's just sitting in your ordrobe, you need
Speaker 4: to be realistic with the price. Just because you've paid
Speaker 4: eight hundred dollars for address and warre it to a
Speaker 4: winning once, someone doesn't want to pay seven hundred dollars probably,
Speaker 4: so you have to be really realistic and be willing
Speaker 4: to let it go. What about those Facebook groups there
Speaker 4: used to be like a recycled spell Facebook group.
Speaker 1: They're still there, Zimmerman Wine.
Speaker 3: Scant on Theadore.
Speaker 4: So if you're really devout to a specific brand, there's
Speaker 4: Country Road, there's Richery.
Speaker 3: You can jump into Facebook and fine, then.
Speaker 4: Buy swap cell Page is an amazing overseas designer and
Speaker 4: TV too, and I'm in that group on Facebook.
Speaker 1: How do they work? Does someone just go I've got
Speaker 1: this jacket? Oh?
Speaker 3: No, It depends on the group.
Speaker 4: So Tibby, there's a shared spreadsheet and you upload your location,
Speaker 4: your size, the condition images and yeah, it's wow.
Speaker 3: It can really depend But there's the.
Speaker 1: Kind of bargains can you get on those sort of groups.
Speaker 4: Again, it depends on people's perception. So some people will
Speaker 4: sell things so cheap and I'm like, is this fake?
Speaker 4: And then some people will sell things for a ridiculous price.
Speaker 4: But maybe they'd saved up so much money for that
Speaker 4: and now they need money burned. Yes, I nearly was.
Speaker 4: So I've got my favorite pair of Basic sandals that
Speaker 4: are on their very last legs. So I joined the
Speaker 4: Basic bi swop cell and I posted a photo. I said,
Speaker 4: does anyone have these in the white? But I'll take
Speaker 4: any color. And then this woman messaged me and she
Speaker 4: said I've got them in the white, and I said, oh, okay, great,
Speaker 4: and I said can you take a photo and she's like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm at work. I'll take a photo later to transfer
Speaker 4: the money. And I went, oh, hang on, I said,
Speaker 4: send me a photo when you get home, and then
Speaker 4: she sent me a photo. A bit later she goes, oh,
Speaker 4: actually they're in the back of my car and she
Speaker 4: sent me a photo, so I Google imaged it and
Speaker 4: it was from another website.
Speaker 3: If it sounds too good to be true, be very careful.
Speaker 4: Always use PayPal if you were shopping online, well for anything,
Speaker 4: but for secondhand goods where you're dealing with another an individual,
Speaker 4: because you can dispute a transaction.
Speaker 1: So what about this, dear collective.
Speaker 3: I've not pers actually have a long time ago.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of ones overseas because that, of course,
Speaker 4: you know, the US and the UK and Europe have
Speaker 4: huge market. There's also a fantastic one, of course, I
Speaker 4: thought in the name. I think it's called a luxury
Speaker 4: Dubai and it's a lot of secondhand designer from Dubai.
Speaker 4: I bought a pair of shoes from there. Actually I
Speaker 4: bought my fortieth birthday Bataga Vanetta shoes that I purchased
Speaker 4: there were secondhand, practically brand new, sold them again straight away,
Speaker 4: basically didn't cost me a cent.
Speaker 1: There's a great woman in Australia called Rachel. She has
Speaker 1: an online boutique doing this called acac ac. Y Acey
Speaker 1: and my designer. If I've got stuff that's like a
Speaker 1: bit designer, like Scanon or whatever, Zimmerman, I'll sell through
Speaker 1: her great and that's great. She's all online too.
Speaker 4: And they take the headache out of it and that.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I've got a pile of things that for me
Speaker 4: were too much money or too good to donate. I
Speaker 4: definitely donate a lot, but then I just feel guilty
Speaker 4: because they're sitting there.
Speaker 3: I'm not wearing them.
Speaker 4: So if you can make a bit of money back,
Speaker 4: that's also the circular economy, so.
Speaker 1: Quick top tips for thrift shopping.
Speaker 4: Okay, if you're going to try things on leggings and
Speaker 4: a tank, so you can just chuck it on over
Speaker 4: because the change rooms are always a bit weird. Check fabrication.
Speaker 4: That's not to say you can't buy synthetics, but you
Speaker 4: just know what you're working with, so if there's a stain,
Speaker 4: you might be able to get it out. If it's
Speaker 4: white and cotton, can you bleach it?
Speaker 1: So am I avoiding synthetics?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: It depends.
Speaker 4: So I bought a great Zimmerman dress the other week
Speaker 4: that had just a teeny tiny little bit of tan underneath,
Speaker 4: and it was a ray On and because of the
Speaker 4: fantastic episode we've done with Nicolbyneithen Hines. I knew I
Speaker 4: had a cool great stain remover and I got that
Speaker 4: stain out.
Speaker 1: Okay, so under arm stains and that didn't make you
Speaker 1: just go yucky.
Speaker 4: Well, I knew it was like a thousand dollars in
Speaker 4: them dress passed. Yeah, you know what, I'll use it
Speaker 4: for wrapping paper. I'll turn the fabric into the skirt.
Speaker 1: You know, so my clothes are so stained anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but also smell that if a synthetic fabric has
Speaker 4: that body o to smell, you're not getting that out.
Speaker 3: Forget it.
Speaker 4: Check zips, buttons and for rips, because sometimes if you
Speaker 4: just check a jacket on but you don't do it up,
Speaker 4: and then you realize it doesn't do up, you get
Speaker 4: hay fever. I always take hand sanitizer. And this is
Speaker 4: just because you're rifling through a lot of things. Not
Speaker 4: to say that they're dirty or not worth it, but
Speaker 4: you just feel a bit yeppy. Take your time if
Speaker 4: you can go open mind it. I took a friend
Speaker 4: the other week on the drive there. She said, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna make a mood board of what I'm
Speaker 4: looking for, and I was like, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: it's not Westfield. You've just got to go and just
Speaker 4: surprise and delight, surprise and delight. I have the most
Speaker 4: luck with separates. I do have a few dresses, but
Speaker 4: I feel like if I buy a thrifted separate at
Speaker 4: top or a bottom, and then I wear it with
Speaker 4: one of my other loved or fancy things, I feel
Speaker 4: more me Yeah, when you get home, wash it right away.
Speaker 4: And then if you've bought fake leather, faux leather, real leather,
Speaker 4: or shoes, wipe them down with anti back wipes.
Speaker 3: They're my tips.
Speaker 1: What about special occasion things, Oh, particularly like dresses.
Speaker 4: For black times, secondhand dresses either irl or online. I
Speaker 4: will never pay hundreds of dollars for a dressed to
Speaker 4: wed or a wedding anymore. That's you know, first hand.
Speaker 4: I just don't wear it again, or I wear it,
Speaker 4: you know, I feel guilty. So that's a really good
Speaker 4: way to do that. Thrift stores probably more so those
Speaker 4: circular economy, higher end places. You know, there's one near
Speaker 4: me called What We Wore that I've sold quite a
Speaker 4: few things in, and she's that middle ground she's also online.
Speaker 3: She's your Beckon Bridge. It's fancy stuff.
Speaker 4: But also that medium and you can get something for
Speaker 4: ninety bucks.
Speaker 1: What are some of the things you found? What are
Speaker 1: your best buys?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, well what if I'm head to toe
Speaker 4: thrifted today? So I've got a black niitt on that's
Speaker 4: kind of got a sheene.
Speaker 1: See it's really annoying because, like I know, I can't buy.
Speaker 3: That, No you can't. I'm worry Ever, I've.
Speaker 1: Thought of buying that for thrift. It's like a chunky,
Speaker 1: cable knit jumper.
Speaker 3: I'm wearing some Jimmy Chew flats that were thirty dollars.
Speaker 3: I just want re salt.
Speaker 4: I'm wearing like a mustard colored tapered like balloon jean.
Speaker 4: What are we calling those barrel jean? So again, if
Speaker 4: there's a trend that you want to try but you
Speaker 4: don't want to go to real stores. These were eight dollars.
Speaker 4: This is not my size, but I fell in love,
Speaker 4: so I bought it for grace. It's an eight hundred
Speaker 4: dollar Rixo dress that was ten dollars.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, where did you find these?
Speaker 4: I found this one at U turn These the shoes
Speaker 4: are at Vinnie's. So look, it is a labor of love,
Speaker 4: and I think also it's a bit Murphy's or if
Speaker 4: you go in hoping for something fabulous, you won't find anything.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is fun because I feel like
Speaker 1: now I get it. It can be a hobby.
Speaker 3: It's a hobby. It's my hobby. People read. I don't
Speaker 3: watch TV. I do read.
Speaker 4: But also, you know, I have a five year old,
Speaker 4: and for so long I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 4: go to the supermarket for my time away, and my
Speaker 4: husband play sports, he goes to the gym.
Speaker 3: I go thrifting for an hour. Yeah, it's my little hobby.
Speaker 4: I might spend eighty dollars not going up to Westfield
Speaker 4: and spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars. And it's just
Speaker 4: a bit of mindfulness in a very strange way.
Speaker 1: I'm really into this. Okay, you've inspired me anything. I
Speaker 1: should avoid completely buying thrifting.
Speaker 4: Just if it's stained, make sure you think you can
Speaker 4: get it out. I unfortunately bought the most amazing pair
Speaker 4: of faux leather wide legged pants and they had a
Speaker 4: stain on them. And then I got them home and
Speaker 4: I messaged n colbynithen Heinz the fabric Oracle and she said,
Speaker 4: that's basically just plastic. All you can try is dishroshing
Speaker 4: liquid and it didn't work. I mean they're eight bucks,
Speaker 4: but now I know faux leather. They were a light
Speaker 4: cream faux leather with a darker stain. Can't get out
Speaker 4: what about leather altogether? Is leather oka to buy? Leather's
Speaker 4: okay to buy? Just make sure it's in good condition.
Speaker 4: Also check that it hasn't had a dodgy repair somewhere
Speaker 4: on the inside. And you're going to wear it and
Speaker 4: then it's going to fall apart. You really have to
Speaker 4: like put them through their paces and lastly take yourself
Speaker 4: out of the store mentally and say is this a
Speaker 4: good or is it just the best thing there nice?
Speaker 1: Or is it just really cheap? Yes for a designer brand.
Speaker 4: Exactly will you wear them? Although Grace our producer, I
Speaker 4: went to Uturn with her. I had to take her
Speaker 4: and I left a pair of many shoes and you
Speaker 4: think about.
Speaker 3: Them every day, do you every single Did they look like?
Speaker 1: How much did they cost?
Speaker 4: The reason I left them behind because they were a
Speaker 4: tan so it kind of looked like an extension of
Speaker 4: my foot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like a coof. They were a cool loafer
Speaker 3: and they were nineteen dollars.
Speaker 1: Good discipline though. Yep, someone else will fall in love
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 3: That's what they did, because I went back shortly after
Speaker 3: and it was gone.
Speaker 1: Well, well done, You've inspired me. I'm going to turn
Speaker 1: thrifting into my new hubby and I will report back that.
Speaker 3: You don't Thanks so much for listening to Nothing to Wear.
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