I think that this Times’ article regarding the blurring of fashion seasons, provides another explanation for why I am less thrift store reliant now:
Retailers are determined to stand winter on its head, hoping to tempt
women to shop, not once or twice a season as their mothers and
grandmothers did, but steadily, and spontaneously, throughout the year.
To compete with fashion-driven mass merchants like Zara and H&M,
which bring in new wares weekly and sell summer-weight clothes
year-round, department stores too are increasingly blurring the seasons.
women to shop, not once or twice a season as their mothers and
grandmothers did, but steadily, and spontaneously, throughout the year.
To compete with fashion-driven mass merchants like Zara and H&M,
which bring in new wares weekly and sell summer-weight clothes
year-round, department stores too are increasingly blurring the seasons.
Speaking of fashion-on-the-street, I’ve noticed the return of the black
stockings, white flats combination. Though very mod, it’s
something that I’ve always avoided because my mother told me when I was
6 never to wear that pairing because it was “the Mickey Mouse
look.” Also, though, I will wear leggings with flats, under a
short skirt, you have license to send me home if you catch me wearing
leggings in any other context.