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Nothing to do with native speaker or not imo, native English speakers use the word “thrifting” to mean a lot of things. To me it means specifically in person shopping at very cheap stores that get their inventory by donation and (mostly) don’t individually price items. But for some people it also includes vintage/secondhand shops that buy their inventory and price things individually, online platforms like eBay, etc. etc. All pretty fuzzy.

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 5/21/2024 in #topic-of-the-day

The Cutting Room Floor - Topic of the day 5/21/24

I kinda fw 2 and 3

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 5/3/2024 in #topic-of-the-day

New Substack Article: On the development of personal style - Topic of the day 5/3/24

I've recently started thinking of this period as kind of "studying". Like an artist just try to copy paintings by the masters to learn technique. A lot of my fits are sort of generic "what MFAD likes", which is easy for me to feel disappointed in. But it feels better if I reframe it as practicing the basics/elements of putting a fit together—more personal style can come later once I'm more settled in other, more important ways.

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 5/3/2024 in #topic-of-the-day

New Substack Article: On the development of personal style - Topic of the day 5/3/24

Thank you Ben! This was nice for me to reflect on. I've also only really started being interested in clothes since like 2022-23, and it's been difficult at times to not be frustrated with my outfits or feeling like I have a vague conceptual idea of what I'd like my style to be I'm not able to execute on it yet. Like that old Ira Glass quote about having enough taste to identify what's good but not create it yet. Sometimes all of those feelings make me want to somehow go faster, but like you said in the post, I think taking it slow is really important. Incorporating things and developing a perspective (and honestly as mew might putting, developing swag) just takes time, there's no shortcut. The intersecting with the rest of your life stuff is also interesting. My interest in clothes started just before the beginning of a very chaotic period in my life where I left a job and living situation I'd been in for many years, and am going to be moving again later this year. Your clothes and your lifestyle are so intertwined; it feels hard for me to develop a personal style when I feel like I don't really know what my life is going to be like a year from now in many ways.

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•Created by Yakkeks on 5/3/2024 in #fashion-discussion

Thrifting

I tried to lowball on already great deal the other day and it got bought out from under me 😅

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•Created by Yakkeks on 5/3/2024 in #fashion-discussion

Thrifting

Also sometimes you get for doing that

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•Created by Yakkeks on 5/3/2024 in #fashion-discussion

Thrifting

Every day I pray for this to happen to me with the unlined LHS haha

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•Created by Yakkeks on 5/3/2024 in #fashion-discussion

Thrifting

Damn thrifted Michaels is crazy

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 5/2/2024 in #topic-of-the-day

Top of WAYWT: April 2024 - Topic of the day 5/2/24

(The fit was good too 🙂)

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 5/2/2024 in #topic-of-the-day

Top of WAYWT: April 2024 - Topic of the day 5/2/24

I totally forgot about this until scrolling through the top fits but I love that LL made it arguably on the back of his dog taking a shit in the pic 😂

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•Created by pc on 12/29/2023 in #fashion-discussion

Sneakers

I find cons pretty uncomfortable just because they have zero arch support

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 4/23/2024 in #topic-of-the-day

Insecurities - Topic of the day 4/23/24

Jumping back a bit to the taking fitpics in public discussion; the other solution is just move to nyc where this is a totally normal activity

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