Quarantine Update

Gifted instead of thrifted.

I’m still in quarantine and haven’t gone thrifting since January. More stores are opening up as the weeks go by because the quarantine is slowly being lifted. I can’t wait to be able to drive to my nearest Goodwill to find new pieces to add to my closet. For the time being, in the beginning of the week, my mom’s friend cleaned out her closet and gave me whatever she didn’t want anymore. I came home with two trash bags full of clothes and about one-third of the items in the bags still had a price tag on it.

My mom’s friend is in her 50’s and her fashion sense doesn’t really match well with mine. However, I’m always broadening my taste in clothes and am constantly trying to find new ways to style different articles of clothing. This experience was even better than going thrifting because I got everything for free! In fact, cleaning out your closet could be a fun activity to do during this time of self-isolation. Getting rid of all the old clothes that don’t get worn anymore is such a satisfying feeling. If you and all your friends do this, instead of buying new clothes when the quarantine is over, everyone can just trade the clothes that’s no longer wanted anymore. You and your friends could end up with a totally new closet at the price of nothing. Here is a picture of one of the tops that was given to me. I paired it with an orange skirt and tucked it in to give it a more fitted look since it was extremely big.

On other news, I made a thrifting lookbook video last week and posted it on YouTube. The video shows a glimpse of what my fashion sense is like and how I style some of my favorite thrift finds of 2019-2020. Everyone should go and check it out! I hope that life goes back to normal soon and that I can physically go thrifting again. Until then, although more public areas and businesses are opening up, please still try to practice social distancing as COVID-19 hasn’t been completely neutralized yet.