[lbo-talk] Goodwill hunting

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 13 06:56:21 PDT 2008


Woj, did thrift stores (lombardy, I guess) exists in the Soviet era in Poland?

--- Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> [WS:] True. You can buy excellent quality clothes
> at
> local thrift shops, especially in the DC area, for a
> few bucks. However, it is far more diffciult to buy
> something for men than for women. I visited thrift
> stores countless times with my girlfriends, and in
> most cases they could find something for themselves,
> but I walked empty-handed. Most of the men stuff
> there was so worn out that it was practically
> rubbish.
>
>
> BTW, thrift stores can thrive mainly thanks to the
> much derided consumerism of the Amerikan yuppies who
> dread the idea of being seen in the last season's
> clothes. I think yuppie females are consummed by
> such
> silly passions to a far greater degree than yuppie
> males, hence the diffciulty of finding good quality
> men's clothes in thrift stores.
>
> Wojtek
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