Jasper Conran dress via car boot sale, Primark cardigan and belt, Schuh leather brogues, Eclectic Eccentricity necklace
This dress was a fantastic find from last weekend’s car boot. It’s a Jasper Conran tea dress, fits like a dream and cost just £1.50. Oh, how I love to thrift! Although after Alex’s post about bloggers’ use of ‘thrifted’ as a vague description of the origins of their outfits, I’m trying to be more specific about where I find my second hand pieces. I get asked all the time which car boot sale I go to – if you’re in Leeds, I recommend ‘The Big One’, held on Sunday mornings at Greenacres Farm need Leeds/Bradford airport. It’s where I find all my bargains! If you’re elsewhere, you can use Car Boot Junction to find one near you.
What has been your best buy this month? New or old, thrifty or pricey – tell us what you’ve found!
what a find! I love it on you 🙂 I think my favorite find of the month was a motorcycle vest at Target!
The belt and the dress go beautifully, those colours really suit you!
Love Sanchia xxx
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Ohhh it fits you so well. Love the brogues too xx
Gorgeous dress & I love those shoes! My favourite buy of this month is a dress that makes me feel like I’ve fallen out of the 1970’s when I wear it haha 😀 xx
Love this dress, what an amazing find! I loooove thrifting 🙂 My best buy this month was probably these plain black flats from Target that i got for only $13..i’ll get SO much use out of them! xo
Gorgeous dress! Your thrift finds are always amazing 🙂
I haven’t bought anything new clothing-wise for a while…am trying to abstain from the sales as want to treat myself to a few new autumnal pieces. x
i may just have to go to that carboot this weekend! The whole outfit just looks gorgeous x
What a fab find! I love it.
I too love that very Car Boot sale, I just dont get to go often enough.
Do you know by any chance when they stop doing them for winter??
x
What a pretty dress! And nice Schuhs 😉
♥ Leia
what a bargain with the dress, it’s beautiful! also, i love the primark cardigan, it reminds me of a cashmere zara one i picked up at my fave charity shop ages ago. your brogues are so pretty, are they pink, or lilac? i can’t really tell.
i personally don’t like or use the term ‘thrifted’, but i honestly don’t have a specific reason why. i use the word ‘thrifty’ regularly, but ‘thrifted’ and ‘thrifting’ don’t really do it for me. i love to know where people have picked up their bargain finds, hence why i have always mentioned whether i get my pieces from car boot sales, charity shops, jumble sales…etc. i just think it lovely to give that sort of information 🙂
love, jazzabelle. xx
Hi there!! Your dress is a gorgeous find! I was on the East Coast last week and picked up some great bargains from the charity shop-thrifting is just so addictive!!
Cute dress! I still haven’t found a tea dress!
On Wednesday I found a gorgeous (faux) leather H&M jacket for £6 in one of my local charity shops!
Lou x – craftyandquirky.blogspot.com
Fantastic buy!! I love a bargain especially when it looks good too 🙂
I love that dress, such a lovely colour and print- £1.50 don’t know how you do it! Amazing.
I do love Jasper Conran, great brand, great quality xx
Oh thats lovely! You have such luck!
My best buy of this month would be this brown skirt I got from my local PDSA!
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You look so pretty! I especially love that cardigan. It looks so cozy! I’m definitely looking forward to wearing lots of cardigans like that this fall. 🙂
My best buy of the month? Definitely this Leslie Danzis ring I bought in a sale on Gilt last week. It’s so pretty and definitely the perfect statement ring!
Always looking for car boots around me, could probably make it to ‘The Big One’ but i’m bookmarking the rec website for future!
Hello Jen,
Absolutely adore your blog. Sliiiiiiiiiiightly jealous of how much talent you have for writing and, evidently by this post, your fashion skills. 1.50 for a dress. It gives me hope as an unemployed student. 😉
Keep up the good work 😀
I’d be honoured if you’d take a cheeky peek at my blog too.
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Ellieanoria
Loving this outfit – all of it!
That cardigan looks like something I could quite happily live in 🙂
Braving the bare legs there – something I haven’t managed all ‘summer’.. I’m impressed!
My latest post has got some of my recent bargains in, as always there’s far too many (I think I’ve got a problem..!)
http://www.heart-shaped-bruise.blogspot.com
Great find, Jen, and wonderfully combined with the big cardi. My best buy… Perhaps the olive jumpsuit I’m wearing, got it in the sale at Zara, a place I rarely go to.
Oh, bargain!!!!! I actually get a little giddy knowing there are fab pieces waiting to be thrifted out there.
My best buy recently is a full Royal Albert white china tea set with a gold trim, for £15! Also this cute camel merino wool jumper for £3!
S
http://notjustmedical.wordpress.com
Love the cardigan and brogues (I have a thing for any type of brogues) <3<3
Really nice dress, and the shape suits you so much!
I’ve just done a post on a thrifty shopping sesh- all on the NZ high street, 5 items for around £22!
xx Maddie
http://thirtysomethingskellum.blogspot
i love the oxford shoes! they are lavender pink!?!
xx
Adorable your shoes!!!
XX
Gorgeous dress, can’t believe is was only £1.50!
Thanks to you sharing that link, I’ve just discovered a car boot 5 minutes away from me that Ididn’t know existed, and have now planned to go this Sunday!
xox
oh i love everything!:)xx
What a super find! I always get mildly more excited by finding more expensive labels at the car boot – I know it’s silly cos it should be the item that matters, not who designed it. I think it’s just the knowledge of how much you’ve saved by getting it that way rather than in the shops that cheers me up so.
It would be fab for you to take up the challenge! I don’t mind at all – just don’t put me to shame eh? 😉
Glad to see you’ve not lost your bargain hunting sense girly.
You look fab xx
You are totally the Queen of thifting great find looks great on you and only £1.50 amazing xoox
next week i am definitely trying to get to a car boot! your posts always inspire me.
Great tip for car book sales ! Thanks! And you look great 🙂
Really nice dress 🙂
bargain! and you look such an english rose in it 🙂
such an adorable find!
the best thing about thrifting is finding something not everyone has..just unique stuff, full of character.
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i bought some zara trousers!! never wear trousers so this is huge. you look very cute x
I love that long belt – makes the outfit look very ‘now’ 🙂
Lots of love Christina x
Lovely outfit 🙂
Abi.x
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Gorgeous dress, love those brogues too! My best find this month has to be a gorgeous vintage silk scarf for 50p!