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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

as muck these days and overpriced .... give me a well sought out gem from a charity shop anyday ............

picked up a fab grass green classic cut sixties number with beautiful white beads sewn all around the neckline. £7.50 bargain!!!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yh i got my daughter a really nice winter coat new look for £7.95. i get lots of great stuff from them at bargin prices

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm going to mention this to my son this evening and gauge his reaction....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love charity shops, most of my dresses for socials come from them and all my handbags.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got a waistcoat for a fancy dress do, cost a Fiver from the charity shop bargain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I buy a lot of bags from charity shops, its the only way I can afford to keep my bag habit going.

Also got a lovely dress for £2.50 the other week.

And the still boxed shoes, never worn, £70 price lable on them, £3.50.

Charity shops rock.

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

Nice 3/4 leather jacket from a charity shop. Hardly worn and like new. £40.Les got a beautiful dress, brand new with tags for £12 with a tag price of £65.

Have also found some unrelated items.. Toy cars without boxes, but in immaculate condition for 10p each!

Never have understood why parents can't just say no to their kids! A comment above somewhere about running it by his son? Our kids were bought quality clothes and lets face it, that doesn't include a loty of designer stuff. If they wanted a "named" brand, they could save up for it! Kids need to be told no sometimes!

Of course we don't buy all our stuff from Charity shops, but see no point in paying a fortune if we don't have to!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

my jaegar £180 frock for 5.99 not sure ive mentioned that before

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden


"my jaegar £180 frock for 5.99 not sure ive mentioned that before "

Ha ha ha, I seem to remember it being mentioned once or twice... But well done you xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Matalan does designer labels

No ones ever heard of em like but hey ho xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i like TK MAXX- i actually hate being pestered by shop people...unless they're tasty with big tits n wet fannies wanting pumped in the changing room,exclaiming "this fits u perfectly Sir",and me replying, "its very tight, but that is how I like it.."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"i like TK MAXX- i actually hate being pestered by shop people...unless they're tasty with big tits n wet fannies wanting pumped in the changing room,exclaiming "this fits u perfectly Sir",and me replying, "its very tight, but that is how I like it..""

Love it

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

Made me laugh when there was a program on the box about economics and they were at a factory in China. They were showing the "cheap" casual shirts coming off the line and explaining that China was best placed to manufacture these items because of cheap labour.

The guy said every shirt that came out of their factory was made to the same quality and the cost price was sub £2 And there in the background, partly fuzzed out was a stack of "designer" brand boxes.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"my jaegar £180 frock for 5.99 not sure ive mentioned that before "

The one you have on? Looks well on ya!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

showing my age here lol..

My mum used to buy cheap jeans and cut the LEE labels off and sew them onto my sisters new ones when I was younger- they never noticed and she saved hundreds of pounds re using labels lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Nice 3/4 leather jacket from a charity shop. Hardly worn and like new. £40.Les got a beautiful dress, brand new with tags for £12 with a tag price of £65.

Have also found some unrelated items.. Toy cars without boxes, but in immaculate condition for 10p each!

Never have understood why parents can't just say no to their kids! A comment above somewhere about running it by his son? Our kids were bought quality clothes and lets face it, that doesn't include a loty of designer stuff. If they wanted a "named" brand, they could save up for it! Kids need to be told no sometimes!

Of course we don't buy all our stuff from Charity shops, but see no point in paying a fortune if we don't have to!"

Aye, when my son was staying recently he bought himself some new gear and prepared a bag for the charity shop. Ralph Lauren jeans in there! I bldy MADE em fit me!!!!

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By *adgeeMan
over a year ago

Sw Scotland


"i like TK MAXX- i actually hate being pestered by shop people...unless they're tasty with big tits n wet fannies wanting pumped in the changing room,exclaiming "this fits u perfectly Sir",and me replying, "its very tight, but that is how I like it..""

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

primark are shit hot at the min. i still buy the odd designer label, but am not buying the label.

i buy what catches my eye regardless of where its from

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"primark are shit hot at the min. i still buy the odd designer label, but am not buying the label.

i buy what catches my eye regardless of where its from "

i love charity shops im wearing agnesb cashmere sweater today it was 3 quid in a charity shop they obviously have never heard of agnes b ......

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By *oantrimcpl2010Couple
over a year ago

Lisburn

I can stand TK MAXX, I dislike the shop and refuse to go into it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"i like TK MAXX- i actually hate being pestered by shop people...unless they're tasty with big tits n wet fannies wanting pumped in the changing room,exclaiming "this fits u perfectly Sir",and me replying, "its very tight, but that is how I like it..""

Brilliant !!

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

my favourite 'label' is Georges

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I can stand TK MAXX, I dislike the shop and refuse to go into it. "

I'll do ya up the BHS then...anyone think of any acronyms for BHS?-

bum hole slut is all i could come up with....

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By *oantrimcpl2010Couple
over a year ago

Lisburn


"I can stand TK MAXX, I dislike the shop and refuse to go into it.

I'll do ya up the BHS then...anyone think of any acronyms for BHS?-

bum hole slut is all i could come up with...."

lol bugger off you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I LOVE charity shops and vintage fairs! Who wants to look like everyone else and like you fell out of a hightstreet shop window. I love to dress classically foxy, like a 40's Hollywood starlet......but with a smaller price tag. It's not where you shop, its how you wear it lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ive only been into the odd charity shop, and the clothes always smelt mothbally! Is it just me or am i going to the wrong charity shops??

answers on a postcard please!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Go to posh areas.....they smell better, but I always give things a good wash before I wear them anyway hehe x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There use to be a couple of fantastic clothes shops in a 'flea market' type place when I was a student in Liverpool. I moved away 10 years ago and all. my old haunts have gone! Apert from making me feel my age I have no Idea where to shop. Anyone got any Ideas?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was that Quiggins in Liverpool? x

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Some of the charity shops now are amazing. There all hung in sizes and colour coded. Went in one in corby and if you didnt know it was a charity shop by the look of it inside you would never know. Then the next shop i went in was primark and i thought wft. Looked like a bomb had dropped on the place.

Some charity shops can outprice themselves but most are brilliant.

I personally prefer the lesser known ones where things are just all piled up together and mismatched. Much more likely to find a true gem hidden beneath

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Charity shops are brill! I noticed the ones in Manchester have started to stock some brilliant new shoes too! really cheap and great for kinky events

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Was that Quiggins in Liverpool? x"

It was indeed. I got some of my favorite tshirts in there. Aparently the Manchester one has gone too....

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds


"I LOVE charity shops and vintage fairs! Who wants to look like everyone else and like you fell out of a hightstreet shop window. I love to dress classically foxy, like a 40's Hollywood starlet......but with a smaller price tag. It's not where you shop, its how you wear it lol"

There is a shop in the St Johns Centre in Leeds, run by a local charity that specialises in Retro second hand clothes,

cannot remember the name of it, its on the right hand side as you go into the centre from Dortmund Square

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

just to add to my above post name of teh shop is 'Found by Create'

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By *ornyHorwichCpl aka HHCCouple
over a year ago

horwich

Afflecks in Manchester is always good for the unusual. Bit more expensive than it used to be when I first went in but they have some ultra cool stuff.

My parents didn't have the money for named stuff so never been interested in labels. My first pair of named trainers I bought myself with my paperound money. I was so proud.

Love the charity shop mooching too. Saw a fab Burberry trenchcoat in one once for £20 in mint condition. Was a bit late on the take up and it was gone when I went back. Could have made some serious money on a certain auction site.

Scarlett

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By *orkieMan
over a year ago

Who knows

TK Maxx is the way ahead, Ted Baker, Le Breve, Evisu, Rocawear, Nickelson, Hackett, all at a fraction of the normal prices

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Ive only been into the odd charity shop, and the clothes always smelt mothbally! Is it just me or am i going to the wrong charity shops??

answers on a postcard please!"

errrr washing machine?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Some of the charity shops now are amazing. There all hung in sizes and colour coded. Went in one in corby and if you didnt know it was a charity shop by the look of it inside you would never know. Then the next shop i went in was primark and i thought wft. Looked like a bomb had dropped on the place.

Some charity shops can outprice themselves but most are brilliant.

I personally prefer the lesser known ones where things are just all piled up together and mismatched. Much more likely to find a true gem hidden beneath"

Aye, Cat Protection is a good un.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I always shop in charity shops. I very much doubt I'll pay full price for anything ever again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Though I am looking forward to Sir buying me a new pvc outfit at the BBB on Sunday..lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"i like TK MAXX- i actually hate being pestered by shop people...unless they're tasty with big tits n wet fannies wanting pumped in the changing room,exclaiming "this fits u perfectly Sir",and me replying, "its very tight, but that is how I like it..""

Ha Ha quality

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

I am a primary junkie but last time I went in I nearly exploded my chest has got a bit bigger and there was nothing in my size, and myarseisbigger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dislike with a vengeance so called designer items with the designer names plastered all over them. Anyone who seriously thinks that the Chanel handbag they bought in a gift shop in Faliraki for €10 is the real deal needs their heads looking at.

If I was going to spend a lot of money on something then I would go to the store and not waste my hard earned money buying off Ebay. I dislike anything which has names or slogans plastered all over them. What is this Pauls Boutique bollocks I see on young girls now, handbags with that name in huge writing and quilted jackets. Its like something Del boy would sell.

You can tell quality by the softness of the leather on a handbag. If the leather is like an Iceland steak then its hardly gonna be Chanel is it.

I have one designer handbag, which is Armani, and that's the lower end of their merchandise. It cost £500 and there's not a mark on it after 18months of daily use. I carry lots of paperwork so I need a strong bag. I would never pay that kind of money on an evening bag I used a few times. I saved all year for that bag.

I make use of thrift shops or designer sales if I'm in New York as they're fantastic bargains. Designers sell their 'last season/few seasons ago' stuff at discounted prices. I do well for shoes here as I'm only a size 3 shoe and there seems to be a lot of smaller size shoes. I don't buy designer clothes because designers don't make clothes above a size 14 usually.

The key is just looking around for a good sale bargain.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I buy clothes from them all the time, I have been told however that Cheltenham is better, posh peoples clothes for dirt prices

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"TK Maxx is the way ahead, Ted Baker, Le Breve, Evisu, Rocawear, Nickelson, Hackett, all at a fraction of the normal prices"

Yes TK Maxx is not bad but Ted Baker is the only one I recognise in your list

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Matalan does designer labels

No ones ever heard of em like but hey ho xx "

I don't think Pierre Cardin and Wolsey were the 'designer' brands they were thinking of though Soapster

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"TK Maxx is the way ahead, Ted Baker, Le Breve, Evisu, Rocawear, Nickelson, Hackett, all at a fraction of the normal prices"

TK Maxx is OK if you don't mind rooting thru piles of overpriced old crap to find something half decent.

Is there anyone around that remembers a catalogues seconds shop called Hitchens ?

Jeez, the fights I used to see in there when mum used to drag me round as a kid.

Grown women fighting over shoes like seagulls over a dropped chip !

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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Oh hell yes I remeber Hitchens, ex catalogue stuff and yes was like a bunfight when new stock came in lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i got to admit my wife and i mainly my wife always where labels she wears juicy cautore i wear duck and cover mainly ohhhhh and she going through the prada thing at moment

so to us labels but not chav type labels like henley and burberry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My parents always told me.

"You wear the clothes ... they don't wear you"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I prefer labels without a label (or with a very discrete logo) if that makes sense.

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By *orkieMan
over a year ago

Who knows


"TK Maxx is the way ahead, Ted Baker, Le Breve, Evisu, Rocawear, Nickelson, Hackett, all at a fraction of the normal prices

Yes TK Maxx is not bad but Ted Baker is the only one I recognise in your list"

Ya wanna come shoppin with me ??

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"TK Maxx is the way ahead, Ted Baker, Le Breve, Evisu, Rocawear, Nickelson, Hackett, all at a fraction of the normal prices

TK Maxx is OK if you don't mind rooting thru piles of overpriced old crap to find something half decent.

Is there anyone around that remembers a catalogues seconds shop called Hitchens ?

Jeez, the fights I used to see in there when mum used to drag me round as a kid.

Grown women fighting over shoes like seagulls over a dropped chip !"

oooooooooo you wordsmith you, love that description.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I dislike with a vengeance so called designer items with the designer names plastered all over them. Anyone who seriously thinks that the Chanel handbag they bought in a gift shop in Faliraki for €10 is the real deal needs their heads looking at.

If I was going to spend a lot of money on something then I would go to the store and not waste my hard earned money buying off Ebay. I dislike anything which has names or slogans plastered all over them. What is this Pauls Boutique bollocks I see on young girls now, handbags with that name in huge writing and quilted jackets. Its like something Del boy would sell.

You can tell quality by the softness of the leather on a handbag. If the leather is like an Iceland steak then its hardly gonna be Chanel is it.

I have one designer handbag, which is Armani, and that's the lower end of their merchandise. It cost £500 and there's not a mark on it after 18months of daily use. I carry lots of paperwork so I need a strong bag. I would never pay that kind of money on an evening bag I used a few times. I saved all year for that bag.

I make use of thrift shops or designer sales if I'm in New York as they're fantastic bargains. Designers sell their 'last season/few seasons ago' stuff at discounted prices. I do well for shoes here as I'm only a size 3 shoe and there seems to be a lot of smaller size shoes. I don't buy designer clothes because designers don't make clothes above a size 14 usually.

The key is just looking around for a good sale bargain.

"

drives me mad, the sales, although must say I don't mind a good online sale.

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden


"I prefer labels without a label (or with a very discrete logo) if that makes sense.

"

Errr... So why bother with labels? The quality is generally no better than the cheaper items and most of it is made in China or the Far East for pennies!

The one I laugh at most is that Chav Designer Brand D&G! It was always cheap tack, but give Victoria Beckham a dog poo hat to wear and people will follow like sheep.. Same as Apple.. Make an item expensive and give it something different, like white earphones and give it to a few "stars/celebraties". People will see the white and know (think) you have an expensive iPod, just like posh people!!

But in the spirit of Fab.. Each to their own

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I prefer labels without a label (or with a very discrete logo) if that makes sense.

Errr... So why bother with labels? "

I don't generally buy labels. Am quite happy to do Asda, Tesco, Debenhams, M&S clothing.

In fact with jeans and trousers, I have to buy from M&S as they're the only ones that offer a fat belly / short leg combo - most of the designer brands assume we all have legs like giraffes !

If I do buy branded tops though, I will buy it because I like it, it fits well and it is within an acceptable budget for me.

I won't buy the ones with the label plastered all over them though, more because I don't want to become a mobile salesboard for the brand than anything.

For example, I have a grey Tommy Hilfiger lambswool jumper (that I bought in the sales for something like £10). It has a very small logo on the waistband which no-one would notice.

Now had that been say a Ralph Lauren jumper, same colour, style, fit etc but with a 5 inch pony emblem over my left nipple, it would have stayed on the shelf !

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

It is ridiculous to suggest that there is no difference between the manufacturing quality of a budget clothing item (Primark, Matalan, Asda etc.) and premium brands of clothing.

That just isn't the case, if for example you buy a £4.99 shirt in Matalan and compare it to a Ben Sherman shirt brought for £49.99 in another store there is no comparison quality wise....within a few months the budget shirt will degenerate/deteriate considerably compared to the more expensive shirt.

That's not to say that there isn't a decent argument for buying the cheaper item, both items have a place in the market that fulfills need.

But in general more expensive clothing items are of much better quality than budget clothing items, there will be exceptions of course but quality generally shows over a period of time.

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

I apologise for not making myself clearer... I stand by the fact that designer clothes are of no better quality than les expensive (cheaper) brands. What I did not mean to convey was that a £50 shirt is the same as a £5 shirt! But I am glad you bought up Ben Sherman!

A Ben Sherman shirt would be compared to a £25 shirt from a reputable (probably the same) retailer. But that is the same as very many other "designer" items. When you buy anything branded with a top name, you are not paying for extra quality, you are paying for the name. That is why Chavs love it! They can wear the brand on their sleeves and eyes and chests and feet

How else would any retailer be able to cut prices massively and still make a profit! Designer clothes are never (in my experience)used as loss leaders!

Ben Sherman is just a name that was "dreamt up", a company I worked for owned it years ago! It used to be part of a group that included metal finishing and many other industrial processes.. They bought it off Authur Sugarmans company as the brand started to die, when the Mods were replaced by the next "big thing"

It langushed at the bottom of the deck for a while, sold to other companies and finally to Oxford Industries. They revived it's fortunes due to the shoppers love of named items..

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

they are usually better finished off, better cut and last longer. As for leathers, sheepskins..... you feel the difference

and if you buy classic and not logo'd..... you will have them for years.

I bought a Yohji Yamamoto jacket from South Moulton Street 15 years ago... just sold it on Ebay for £300.

Think I paid that for it.

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