Frugal Fashion Shopper
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Penny Kocher writes about finding wonderful clothes for the older woman in charity shops and issues around women and aging. She is 75 years old and has built up a great wardrobe on very little money.
Frugal Fashion Shopper
1y ago
Hello everyone Many apologies, I missed a week, and why? Well, a lot has been happening, life, the universe and politics got in the way, and I put my writing efforts into My Other Blog. If you click on the icon you’ll find two posts, one written on the 17th ..read more
Frugal Fashion Shopper
1y ago
Hello everyone How are you all? OK, I hope, what with the change in the weather and everything else going on in the world. Anyway, to fashion! Despite 90% of my clothing coming from charity shops I do buy the occasional new item, but hardly ever at full price, and ..read more
Frugal Fashion Shopper
1y ago
Hi everyone Late as usual but I have a very good excuse I’m on holiday in my much loved Dungeness. Here are a couple of snaps to show you why I love it so. This is the cottage. Looks small doesn’t it! But it’s quite the Tardis. In addition, there ..read more
Frugal Fashion Shopper
1y ago
Hi everyone I thought I’d tell you about a very recent successful set of finds from our local charity shops. The thing is my other half, Mr F, hates clothes shopping and for some time I had been asking him to go to Brighton to look for new trousers and ..read more
Frugal Fashion Shopper
1y ago
Hello everyone It’s Tuesday already and I haven’t even started writing the blog, partly I think because of the momentous events occurring in our country. God speed our late Queen and very best wishes to our new King. However, I don’t know about you, and I’m probably in the minority ..read more
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1y ago
Hello everyone We got back from our short break seeing friends in Bournemouth and Somerset. And I’m sorry to say I don’t have a single photo of the countryside as I was very much in the moment of being with friends who we hadn’t seen for some time, actually some ..read more
Frugal Fashion Shopper
1y ago
Hello everyone Well, the month of August has been quite a month what with our heatwave and the big hair cut! Thank you for all your comments about the hair. Those comments, and the ones from friends who don’t read the blog, made me realise that my long hair wasn’t ..read more
Frugal Fashion Shopper
1y ago
Hi everyone The weather’s much cooler and calmer. We’ve even had some rain and three cheers as that means my water butts are full again. I did some gardening yesterday and everything is greener and more moist – phew, it’s such a relief. However, even with my shorter hair, during ..read more
Frugal Fashion Shopper
1y ago
Hello The UK has just got through another bout of hot weather and while temperatures were not as hot as last time it was longer – four days of temperatures in the low 30s (high 80s). We are so not used to it. And this, plus the drought, is leading ..read more
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1y ago
Last Wednesday we went to Dulwich (on the outskirts of London) to the Dulwich Picture Gallery to see, Reframed: The Woman in the Window, which was so interesting and highly original as it aimed to be a window itself, reflecting on how women have been depicted through the ages, from ..read more