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Fashion Column: I Heart Value Village

Posted by andPOP Staff on July 1st, 2005

There are some people who prefer to do their shopping in tastefully decorated boutiques, where the staff is paid to fawn over you and a pair of socks is $22. I am one of those people.

Then there are people who prefer the bare white walls, fluorescent lighting, soothing voice of Bryan Adams, and zombie death employee stares of -shudder – discount shopping. I have never been one of those people. Winners terrifies me and Wal-Mart, though it has a certain charm despite the mass produced conglomerate evil etc., is both morally and fashionably wrong on all levels.

However, there’s an exception to every rule, and my exception to the “no fluorescent lighting” rule is Value Village. For some bizarre unexplainable reason, Value Village provides me with a kind of calm and peace of mind that I previously only found in Ashtanga yoga. The huge secondhand store can offer me the same tranquility but no locked kneecap if I do the Downward Dog incorrectly.

It’s a mystery to me how I can ignore the sound of Bryan Adams and other lite rock crap pumping through the intercom and the bare store walls, but maybe it’s because you can find genuinely good merchandise there. Granted, you’re going to have to dig through the fringed ponchos, old Danielle Steel novels, and mugs with pictures of the Pope on it, but underneath all that is a world of treasure. Particularly the children’s section ? some of my favorite tee shirts were previously owned by Pokemon masters and Harry Potter fanatics. Half the time I can’t tell the difference between the tees I get for anywhere between forty nine cents to $2.99 and the faux-vintage they’re always pushing for $30 at places like American Eagle. I’m not trying to be all preachy cause I’m not buying something mass produced or spending $30 on it, its just logic. If I only spend a dollar on a tee shirt, then I have more money for better mass produced clothing (i.e. another pair of gaucho pants, even though those are sooo last week).

The other great thing about shopping at your local Value Village is that you’re probably going to find something that you have some emotional connection to you. For example, I found a gym shirt from my elementary school and a tee from my favorite childhood arts camp. I think it’s always better to wear something that you actually have feelings about, as opposed to something sparkly with a fake ad for a fake ice cream store.

In total, I purchased one sweater, one cardigan, one super comfy bathrobe (so comfy it makes me sleepy), five tee shirts, seven almost-new books I’ve been wanting to read, and an old but still functional Operation board game. Total cost? Forty dollars and seventy one cents. If that’s not a good deal, nothing is.

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