East End Thrift Store

Good afternoon my lovelies,

As some of you may know, there is a fabulous event in London for all you thrifties out there, called East End Thrift store and its held in er, the East End.
 https://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/East-End-Thrift-Store/165943483434967

For those of you who don't know, its basically an event that's held in London, where all of the world's vintage jackets,coats,jumpers,jeans,dresses, tops etc are resurrected from beyond the grave,regurgitated from your parents adolescent years, stolen from charity shops* and sold for ONE POUND.
Yep, you heard right, levi's for a POUND.Vintage baseball/football/soccer tops- one POUND. EVERYTHING'S A POUND. ARE YOU HYPERVENTILATING YET COS I AM.

*just kidding.

If you enjoy queueing for hours on a Saturday morning,in a dodgy part of London with fellow fashionista's watching your every move, then you will love this. Despite the queues and judgemental hispters though, it was groovy. We waited for about 2 hours before we decided to leave the queue and go to the one next to us for the East End Thrift Warehouse. ( You pay for a bag, £10 or £20,about the size of a A4 piece of paper, and stuff it full of clothes.) My advice for this one, be an excellent folder, I managed to fit 3 jumpers and a top in my bag, or be really pretty. (The latter won't work,the guy on the till was so angry.)
The one pound store, in my opinion is better if you just want the clothes for the material, or you enjoy walking around in muddy clothes. It was held in a car-park and so after unleashing the first 30 hipsters, clothes were flying everywhere,which was fab as it had rained the day before.


I will show you my purchases when the washing machine has finished washing the dead people smell off of them. (still worth it.)

I know its hard to see, but this was my view for most of the day.The queue went all the way around the block, that's four roads can I add.
(The look the late-comers gave us, as they dragged their feet past us looking for the end of the queue, as they turned another corner. Mwhaha.
It was a mixture of hatred and envy.)





I would recommend to all of you thrifties out there to go to the next event, you can check for updates on their facebook page(the link above) or follow their twitter account https://twitter.com/assemblythrift because there are some really snazzy bargains! And you meet loads of really cool people and can exchange fashion tips (by exchanging fashion tips I mean stare them out till they notice you staring then smile at them, or in my case,dither for 20 minutes on the best way to ask the girl in front where she got her shoes from - topshop btw.)




The only thing that got us through the day were jokes, here are my favs:

My friend David lost his ID, now we call him Dav.
*pause for laughter*

What food is used for hiding horses?
Mascarpone
(get it? MASK- A- PONY)
hashahhhahhahahhhhhhahaha


and my personal favourite, courtesy of my friend Jimmy:

Past,present and future walked into a bar...It was tense.