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Bagging a bargain

December 16th 2008 00:25

Why pay full price for your clothes and accessories, and end up wearing the same things as everybody else, when there are cheap, barely-used – and sometimes unused – items available, many of them one-off obscure or retro pieces, some of them collectors items?

An opp-shopping trip this morning with my sister turned over a few gems, one of them being a retro pearlescent clutch bag with a gold chain, for the grand price of $6.

And I bought this little red handbag for just $7..

red bag




It always amazes me what people are willing to get rid of, particularly in Melbourne’s inner suburbs. In a Brunswick op-shop two years ago I managed to buy a leather Fiorelli handbag and a black crocodile skin-like JAG bag for $15 total – see the JAG one below. Not a mark or scratch on it, just a couple of loose threads which were easily snipped off.

bag



Right now I can’t remember why I ever bother to go retail shopping at all....

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