{"id":179,"date":"2006-02-13T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/02\/13\/vintagetarianism\/"},"modified":"2006-02-13T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T14:20:17","slug":"vintagetarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/02\/13\/vintagetarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintagetarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1143'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the desire to go on shopping diets is limited to me.&nbsp; Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\">SF Chronicle<\/a> includes <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/02\/13\/BAGH3H7DH71.DTL\">a profile<\/a><br \/>\nof a group known as the Compact, 50 people who have vowed to<br \/>\nnot purchase anything new (with the exception of underwear, health and<br \/>\nsafety items, and of course, food) in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>This article has also forced me to ponder why I rarely thrift<br \/>\nnowadays.&nbsp; My last thrift store purchase took place in Portland,<br \/>\nOregon in November of 2004.&nbsp; Part of me thinks it is because the<br \/>\ncurrent state of fashion (cheap, quick and disposable trends) has<br \/>\nspeeded up the fashion cycle to the point where it is hard for<br \/>\nsecond hand stores to keep up.&nbsp; Also, designers tweak retro looks<br \/>\nin such modern ways, that it&#8217;s hard for an authentic era piece to<br \/>\nwork.&nbsp; The indie hipster look has also become less thrift store<br \/>\nreliant as it has morphed a bit over the years from tight cowboy shirt,<br \/>\nratty tee, and clunky glasses combo to the billowy dress (think moo<br \/>\nmoo) cinched with a belt over leggings trio (though you could find<br \/>\nthose three pieces at both Goodwill and UO).<\/p>\n<p>The real reason is that I&#8217;m probably just too busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think the desire to go on shopping diets is limited to me.&nbsp; Today&#8217;s SF Chronicle includes a profile of a group known as the Compact, 50 people who have vowed to not purchase anything new (with the exception of underwear, health and safety items, and of course, food) in 2006. ** This article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}