Garment District loot
Jul. 25th, 2011 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidMonths ago I got 3 $20 Groupons for the Garment District. The first two I used during one of their half-off-everything sales (I keep thinking that my thrifty grandmothers would be proud, having spent $20 for $80 worth of (lightly) used clothes. I had one more that expired yesterday (I believe that according to state law, it would have reverted to the sale price, essentially becoming a gift certificate, but I'm cheap, so I didn't want that to happen). So yesterday I went over, a new pair of bamboo socks
a new pair of socks with cute frogs on them
a beautifully embroidered cloth napkin
three striped placemats
a large fringed green scarf with black swirls on it
a red knit long-sleeved top
a maroon kurta (no pyjama to go with it)
a sea-themed blue cotton wrap skirt
almost-black purple drawstring pants, striped with lighter purple (with pocketses!)
a long robe/coat sort of garment in leopard print, that buttons in front (and, oddly, has a pocket on the right, but not the left)
Amazingly, everything that needed to fit was from dollar a pound and I hadn't tried anything on until I got home, but it all fit. The kurta is a bit large, but whatever. Most of this will end up as Burning Man clothing, and I think I could line the leopard-print thing enough to be a night coat there, despite the sleeves being too short for me (So far, only one year was it actually cold at night, to me, at least.), perhaps adding some lights.
Amazingly, everything that needed to fit was from dollar a pound and I hadn't tried anything on until I got home, but it all fit. The kurta is a bit large, but whatever. Most of this will end up as Burning Man clothing, and I think I could line the leopard-print thing enough to be a night coat there, despite the sleeves being too short for me (So far, only one year was it actually cold at night, to me, at least.), perhaps adding some lights.