I've been meaning to spend some serious time extolling the virtues of thrift-store shopping. It's a healthy habit for any mindful fashion-addict, in being inherently sustainable (reducing potential waste by reusing existent pieces) and as a good exercise in creativity (the challenge of seeing stylish potential in abandoned garments). Vintage clothing purchases can also be the most rewarding, imbuing a kind of pride in having discovered treasures that no one else could detect. I myself am still glowing from my most recent thiftstore find.
It's a little ode to Yohji Yamamoto's A/W 07 white-and-black polka-dots. And while his playful rotating hoopskirts probably raised a few amused eyebrows in fashion capitals, my significantly less extreme take on the pattern is sure to do the same on Portland city streets. Oh the pleasures of befuddling people.
Hurray for shoulder-padded high-waited polka-dot jumpsuits! And hurrah for Yohji, for daring me to do it.
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