How do I dress stylishly and ethically without breaking my budget? By wearing other people’s clothes, of course!
I have two wardrobes, one for slobbing around the homestead planting plants and mucking out chickens and the other for the rare times I board a bus to go see my friends in the city.
When I’m not setting foot outside the gate, my outfits consist almost entirely of hand-me-downs. I’ll wear anybody’s clothes, dead or alive.
Jacket came with the house, jumper my brother's, shoes liberated from my brother-in-law's shoe stash and he hasn't noticed yet, joggers left behind by visiting friend
When I moved to this country house five years ago, I commandeered the piles of clothes, overcoats, shoes, and jumpers left behind by the previous owner. That’s not to mention the jumpers and cardigans I inherit from my brother, who grows increasingly plump each day and periodically sheds the clothing he’s expanded out of. He also favours woollen items that he invariably shrinks in the wash, and these, too, find their way to me.
Of course, I wouldn't be seen in public in my homestead chic. Oh no! I'm an ex-city slicker, and even at my age, I have to look the part. When I’m off to town, you’ll find me in my best bib and tucker, dresses that are just as classy now as they were when I bought them second-hand in the 1980s, coupled with a stylish coat and winklepickers given to me by my neighbour before she sadly departed this realm.
Thus, I never have to buy clothes and yet I’m suitably kitted out for every occasion. Though how ethical it is to appropriate your brother- in- law's shoes is open to debate.
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Posted in response to the Ladies of Hive challenge asking 'How do you dress stylishly and ethically without breaking your budget?'