Not quite. Thrift usually is donated goods usually sold for charity, though not always. Resale, including consignment (where the shop acts as broker for the owner of the clothes), is curated by the shop, and results in higher prices but better quality on average, and always better prices than retail.
In nice areas,…

Not quite. Thrift usually is donated goods usually sold for charity, though not always. Resale, including consignment (where the shop acts as broker for the owner of the clothes), is curated by the shop, and results in higher prices but better quality on average, and always better prices than retail.
In nice areas,…

Jolie Kerr has a solution for your stains.....

You might read a bunch of Carolyn Hax chats. Time and again, people write in with these issues, and I find her detailed, nuanced advice helpful and comforting. Besides, reading through the wide variety of issues people write in about helps with perspective.
And if this continues, please get screened. Zoloft and a good…

Or a good consignment/resale shop!

I have returned to my home state of SC from Maine, and you are correct, and in addition, I noticed that TV reporters up there had to remind people to slow down driving the first day it snowed each year, and still there were plenty of accidents. Down here, pretty much every day it snows is the first one of the year (if…

Cap sleeves were invented to make most adult women feel bad....how about just over the elbow length sleeves?

I live in South Carolina, where we do have four seasons, but not aligned as elsewhere. I have the minimum winter gear I can get away with, especially woolens. I wash the woolens in April, when I know I won't need them until November at the earliest (although with freaky climate change weather....) the clean sweaters…

I think the outfit would be more chic, more comfortable, more versatile and more practical as a two piece. For one thing, unless it is custom fitted, I would think the variance in torso lengths would make it tricky to avoid camel toe or diaper butt.....

Of course, we are cognitive misers. Why is it necessary or helpful to assume someone is straight, though?

But I am sure you are right.
The big town I grew up in has become noticeably more accepting of LGBTQ since the days when people would titter about the piano tuner and the doctor who lived in the squash court. I'd like to think it is partly because people became more aware of all the nice gay and lesbian people who they…

I am not talking rural.

Why assume anything? Why not take each person as an individual?
I am not trying to prove a point. I am hoping for a better world. I wonder why you are so set on disproving my hope.

I think down here in SC, most people outside enclaves in the big city, think there are maybe a couple of hairdressers or florists, and a gym teacher and the rest are in San Francisco or New York. They are wrong, because I know so many closeted LGTBQ people. It is heartening to see how quickly attitudes can change (not…

When I grew up, it was a mailman. Now it's a mail carrier. That has changed.

For the record, singers ARE musicians. The distinction you seek is between singers and instrumentalists.
—Ms Language-Person

It's like how enlightened people use gender neutral terms like postal carrier, police officer and fire fighter, even though men are still the overwhelming majority in those jobs, I think, because just enough women are to make folks stop and think.

I'd like to think it's when enough people are known to be LGBTQ, because they don't have to hide, that people realize how many there are...

How about a day when no one has to "come out"? When there is no assumption of straightness to be removed?

Yes, I appreciate that it is a fair trade catalog. I'm just not a crunchy sort of person. This year, she got stuff from just a novelty catalog. bas bleu, for the record.