On The Subject of Wintering P2

‘It’s the urge to be understood and seen and supported by your tribe. When that tribe ignores it because they cannot understand or begin to imagine, and so often don’t know what to say, you then fall down to a new level of losing your identity a little more, and your soul screams out in anguish. Your world becomes even smaller (as if it couldn’t get any smaller).  Campaigning is then the focus until things change, as many have done before us, but that takes allies too and we are still trying to build on that which often feels fruitless.  Small seeds however grow into bigger things.’

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On The Subject Of Wintering P1

For those of us living on the edges of society, as we have been for decades now (people with MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and other marginalised conditions), I am coming to feel slightly less alone and slightly less in a minority of the ‘Missing In Action’ from life, as sadly and as expected, the cases of Long Covid / M.E. rise.  

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Transitional States of Being - Identity & Fashion Modelling

“I try looking at these photos and reminding myself that though I may look a certain way in some pictures, this does not define my gender identity. I can be a man and wear make-up and feel f***ing fabulous and there is nothing wrong with that.”

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Girl About Town Does Thrift - The Fast Fashion Haulternative

Girl about town, Tanya-Louise tried the ThriftVIP slow fashion alternative to her usual Primark hauls and embraced it beautifully.

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Savage Beauty - Alexander McQueen at The V&A …The brightest stars burn fastest
The Punk Aesthetic- Collaboration: Homage to Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood
Strictly Sequins!

We all need a bit of sparkle in our lives more than ever right now after a tough year, with a somewhat uncertain looking future ahead, but we’ve all proven how adaptable we are, and we still know how to have a good time.

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ESCAPISM, AESTHETICS, CONSCIOUS CONSUMPTIONMadeleine WallnerSTRICTLY, STRICTLY COME DANCING, SEQUINS, SEQUIN, SEQUIN DRESS, FANCY DRESS, ALL THAT GLITTERS, GLITTER, NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE, SWEET CHARITY, SPARKLE, SHOW, BREXIT, CLIMATE CHANGE, ADAPT, FESTIVE, PEOPLE AND PLANET, PLANET BEFORE PROFIT, BAUBLES, FASHION RESOLUTIONS, fashion revolution, FASHION, SHINY, SHINE, ORNAMENTS, AESTHETICS, AESTHETIC, ECLECTIC AESTHETIC, MAKE UP, GLITTER MAKE UP, SMOKE AND MIRRORS, GLITTER BALL, GLITTERBALL, BUBBLE, ZOOM, PARTY, ZOOM PARTY, PARTY TIME, DRESS UP, CLOTHES, QUALITY, LANDFILL, FASHION LANDFILL, FASHION LIFECYCLE, COCKTAIL DRESS, COCKTAIL, EMBELLISHMENTS, HAND WASHING, CREATIVE, MICRO PLASTICS, PLASTIC, BALLOONS, CELEBRATE, SPARKLY, CHRISTMAS, GLAMOUR, EXCITEMENT, PARTIES, HEN PARTY, HEN PARTIES, HEN PARTY IDEAS, DANCE TROUPE COSTUMES, GREEN WASHING, BIODEGRADABLE, PLANET, SUSTAINABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS, SUSTAINABLE LIVING, FASHION SUSTAINABILITY, FASHION REVOLUTION, FASHION RENTAL, SOURCING, PARTY SEASON, THRIFTING, thrift, THRIFT, THRIFT GENERATION, thrifting, THRIFT FUTURES, thriftvip, THRIFTVIP, THRIFT SHOP, THRIFT SHOP ONLINE, RENT, RENTAL, FANCY DRESS TO RENT, BURLESQUE, RENTAL BURLESQUE, THEATRICAL, THEATRICAL COSTUME, FANTASY, ESCAPISM, escape, escapism, experience, EXPERIMENT, EXCITIING, EXPERIENCES, ENJOYMENT, FUN, THINK BIG, KYLIE, KYLIE MINOGUE, VINTAGE, vintage, vintage online, VINTAGE ONLINE, vintage clothing, vintage style, vintage fashion, high end vintage, REPURPOSED, FUTURE, future of fashion, fashions future, FASHIONS FUTURE, FASHION'S FUTURE, green future, SATURDAY, SATURDAY NIGHT, CIRCULAR, CIRCULAR FASHION, circular fashion, CIRCULAR SOURCING, CIRCULARITY, FAD, FOREVER, LIFECYCLE, LONGEVITY, LOVE, LOVE YOUR WARDROBE, SELF LOVE, PRE-LOVED FASHION, LOVED CLOTHES LAST, ENVIRONMENT, SDGS, sdgs, 2021, GREENWASHINGComment
Thrift Futures - Fashion Futures, What Next?
FASHION FUTURES, SUSTAINABILITYMadeleine WallnerThe Vampires Wife, Baumkuchen, save the trees, green future, fashions future, future of fashion, THRIFT, thrifting, thrift, THRIFTING, thriftvip, lateral thrifting, FASHION'S FUTURE, FASHIONS FUTURE, CONSCIOUS CONSUMPTION, SUSTAINABILITY, SUSTAINABLE LIVING, THRIFT FUTURES, THRIFTVIP, high end thrift, high end vintage, AUDIT, WARDROBE ARSENAL, WARDROBE, LOVE YOUR WARDROBE, INVESTMENT, INVEST, JOY PER WEAR, 3 WAYS TO WEAR, RENT, RECYCLE, RECYLED, SHARE, FAST FASHION, FASHION, EXPERIMENT, CONSUMPTION, FASHION RENTAL, RENTAL, HAULTERNATIVE, SHOPPING HABITS, SHOPPING, RETAIL, CONVENIENCE, CONVENIENCE CULTURE, CELEBRITY, ENDORSEMENT, CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT, CULTURE, FASHION LIFECYCLE, SHARE WEAR, VALUES, CIRCULAR, circular fashion, CIRCULAR FASHION, RENT THE RUNWAY, RECYCLED, REPAIR, LONGEVITY, JOY, VINTAGE, vintage, vintage fashion, vintage online, VINTAGE ONLINE, vintage style, vintage clothing, INVESTMENT PIECE, INVEST IN FASHION, ACCESSORIES, RESOLUTIONS, FASHION RESOLUTIONS, STRICTLY, STRICTLY COME DANCING, LATERAL THRIFTING, THRIFT SHOP, FURLOUGHED, LANDFILL, FASHION LANDFILL, POLLUTER, PEOPLE AND PLANET, PLANET BEFORE PROFIT, PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT, FASHION REVOLUTION, INNOVATION, PERSONALITY, COMEBACK, COME BACK, CONSIDERED, SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS, FASHION SUSTAINABILITY, VALUE, SUCCESS, TRANSPARENCY, SUPPLY CHAIN, BRANDS, AESTHETIC, AESTHETICS, aesthetics, ECLECTIC, ECLECTIC AESTHETIC, STATUS, FASHION STATUS, FAST FASHION INFLUENCERS, INFLUENCERS, DESIGNER, DESIGNER WEAR, DESIGNER ACCESSORIES, DESIGNER STATUS, VESTIAIRE COLLECTIVE, SUPREME, GUCCI, LOUIS VUITTON, LV, SLOW FASHION, ASPIRATIONAL, aspirational, ATTITUDES, UNIQUE, STYLE, UNIQUE STYLE, AUTHENTIC, ECLECTIC FASHION, COLLECTIVE, IMPACTFUL FASHION, IMPACT, GENERATION, THRIFT GENERATION, thrift shift, thrift revolutionComment
Elevate Your Everyday ... Style Takeover for ThriftVIP
Introducing....Tiger Showcases

With masks selling like hot cakes, it’s no surprise that Toni’s Tigers have been flat out busy. What with making, delivering and joining forces with ‘Notts For The Love Of Scrubs’ by taking the reigns and becoming the main Nottingham hub, there’s been no time for much else lately…

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Beyond The Bunny - Reclaiming An Icon For Feminism
The Bunnies Are Back! 
'FOMO' - Fun On My Own and Enclothed Cognition... My Life, Living With a Chronic Condition

A candid account of my life living and ‘working’ with a chronic condition and the fascinating subject of Enclothed Cognition.

“I’ve learnt to be a more honest and open person, more in touch with my feelings and those of others. Empathy and compassion are paramount to health and well-being for all of us”

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Take 5… Aside - Five Ways to Wear Vintage and Pre-Loved…Remote Model, Karen Dobres

We sent Karen Dobres 5 pieces from ThriftVIP collections, based on her unique preferences, trialling our profiling concept and remote modelling in one go, for the first time….

And that’s not all. In this blog we show you Karen’s take on these 5 pieces and also reveal more about the person behind the clothes; Karen Dobres the amazing woman, championing LewesFC Women. The results are beautiful!

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