Blue cotton jersey shirt dress. Label reads: "Design History."
Before moving in with me, Deborah lived a few doors down from a popular used clothing store in Park Slope, Brooklyn called Beacon's Closet. She shared her apartment with two guys and didn't have much in the way of closet space. In fact, she didn't have any. But she didn't need it because Beacon's closet not only sells used clothes but buys them too, and rather than keep a closet full of clothes, Deborah used Beacon's Closet as a kind of lending library. Whenever she felt like she needed a new outfit, she'd sell a couple of things to the store and use the credit to buy something else.
It wsn't a perfect system. The store didn't always buy back something they'd just sold a month before, and nothing was more frustrating than trying to figure out the whims of the snotty kids behind the buying counter.
Either way, since moving in with me, Beacon's Closet isn't convenient anymore, and Deborah's last Beacon Closet finds became frozen in time.
She still likes this dress, though, and wears it now and then.
Are these little stories necessary?
7 comments:
not necessary but a great and welcome addition.
the stories are great
It's just too bad Miss Stiff doesn't wear *shoes*.
There are two stands for the mannequin, but I only have one. The one I have uses a pole that goes into the middle of her right foot. The only way she could wear shoes would be to poke a hole through the sole of one of them. Maybe we could do that with one pair -- give Deborah an excuse to buy one new pair of shoes, but that's it.
the stories are enjoyed and appreciated!
Yeah, it's not feasible. One pair of shoes would definitely not match every outfit.
stories = great
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