I LOVE Dept of Salad. Substack gifted me a subscription a while back, and I don't know what I'll do when the year runs out.
And yes to clothes buying in Ithaca. The only thing that saves me is my lifetime use of thrift stores out of necessity. The thrill of the hunt carries me even when the choices are slim. If I could afford full-priced new clothes this town would be consistently depressing.
I have never been successful at thrifting clothes. Art, furniture--yes. Clothing sales, online, always. I haven't even tried the thrifting online sites, which people love; perhaps I should. There certainly would be greater size diversity. I love style and expression, and I live in Ithaca, where I never have to change out of my jeans and fleece if I don't want to. It takes a weird kind of effort to dress here.
I remember being deeply upset by it when I first moved here from Seattle over 20 years ago. I was horrified by the perennial, middle aged woman uniform of Angelheart linen "khaki-sacks" as I called them and thinking, God! I never want to be someone who wears that sort of thing. And now I just look at that sort of thing and think, Gosh! How comfy would that be!
I am not sure if I read your post first, or if I heard Lesa Cline-Ransome's interview on Off-the-Page first, but I happen to be thinking a lot this week about what voices we are looking to amplify, to hear, or to hear again when we write.
I LOVE Dept of Salad. Substack gifted me a subscription a while back, and I don't know what I'll do when the year runs out.
And yes to clothes buying in Ithaca. The only thing that saves me is my lifetime use of thrift stores out of necessity. The thrill of the hunt carries me even when the choices are slim. If I could afford full-priced new clothes this town would be consistently depressing.
I have never been successful at thrifting clothes. Art, furniture--yes. Clothing sales, online, always. I haven't even tried the thrifting online sites, which people love; perhaps I should. There certainly would be greater size diversity. I love style and expression, and I live in Ithaca, where I never have to change out of my jeans and fleece if I don't want to. It takes a weird kind of effort to dress here.
I remember being deeply upset by it when I first moved here from Seattle over 20 years ago. I was horrified by the perennial, middle aged woman uniform of Angelheart linen "khaki-sacks" as I called them and thinking, God! I never want to be someone who wears that sort of thing. And now I just look at that sort of thing and think, Gosh! How comfy would that be!
Oh gosh. Oh yes. And I've owned plenty of Angelheart in my day, thanks to that big spring warehouse sale.
L.'s advice was excellent advice. I wonder... is his voice in your larger project, somewhere? Or could it be?
That is an excellent suggestion.
I am not sure if I read your post first, or if I heard Lesa Cline-Ransome's interview on Off-the-Page first, but I happen to be thinking a lot this week about what voices we are looking to amplify, to hear, or to hear again when we write.