I’m back… and here to show you how my idea mentioned in the previous post, FLOURISHED.
Booooy, it was fun alright… so here’s a lil general run-down of my lil escapade.
Here we have the thrift store… COIFFEUR.
Located on 32 Rue des Rosiers, this place is a GEM. Before I did this project, I wasn’t even aware of the name, we’d simply refer to it as, “the place next to L’As du Falafel” and that was that.
I decided to start this project with Coiffeur because I was positive it had a euro bin and I knew that I could (halfway) trust randomly selecting items from it, just due to the carefully curated pieces the store already has, I knew that the euro bin had to be those items they picked that never realllyyy got purchased (still purposefully picked out, just not hitting it with customers).
If I could rank this thrift store I’d give it a 6.8. The clothes are good, nothing where every single item you find you want to buy, which isn’t even typical or an expectation you should have with thrift stores. The space is just a little crowded, it almost sets you (or at least shoppers like me) up for failure… aka buying an item without trying it on and it INEVITABLY not fitting. WHICH for me was due to my DIFFICULT nature of not wanting to deal with the ONE dressing room they had in such an already cramped space. It also only has one mirror right in front of the register, which just makes me feel a littttle bit judged. Aside from that, clothes are good and prices are fair.
So here’s a little run down of my trip…
And here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…
How I decided to incorporate the first item I picked…
Here we have outfit #1… it’s something I would typically wear. It’s just a simple, open knit sweater, so I guess the hardest part I had with it was kinda trying to jazz it up to actually make it semi-cute (which some people might still disagree with). I’ve been into only buttoning the middle button on cardigans lately and I couldn’t tell you why, but I think it’s cute. BUT what really is cute, anyway?
And here’s outfit #2&3… I didn’t get as excited for these days as I did with the 1st… there was no dramatic photo shot for me pulling from the bag; I just pulled it from the bag… and went on my way for the day.
BOTH of these items I picked HAPPENED to be accessories, which to me… is always difficult. I’ve always wanted to be someone who could accessorize so effortlessly, but alas I’m not and deciding how to jazz up some earrings or in this case a purse or a hat, is not my forte, which I guess made this more challenging (but STILL FUN!!!).
Allllll in alllll, the items I got were slightly different for me personally and it was fun to incorporate them. I got 5 items altogether from the Coiffeur euro bin and these were the 3 I guess I was destined to be forced to wear throughout last week. The other 2 items were a striped purple sweater and a flower print dress, which I think I’ll try to wear at some point because I still like the items, but I wasn’t forced to wear it as I made myself with these items.
I think I will wear the white cardigan again and I definitely want to keep the purse just because I think it’s fun and cute and not what I would typically go for with a purse. The hat on the other hand, might be passed down to someone else… it just doesn’t look good on me. I still think it’s kind of cute, I’m just not the right person for it… she deserves someone else.
STAY TUNED FOR NEXT WEEK AS I PLAN ON GOING TO FREE’P’STAR, which ALSO features a Euro bin that ONCE again I will be choosing from.
See y’all on the flip side,
ABBY
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