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These guys dressed sharp, too: both sported dreds twisted tight to the scalp, and both suited up in thrift-store vintage clothing with 1970s jackets, turtlenecks, polyester pants and crazy workman boots.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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In her latest efforts, she's taken thrift-store tchotchkes - the schlockiest of bird and pig ceramics - and cocooned them in . . . stockings and fabric.
Familiar favorites: Once more, with feeling Jessica Dawson 2011
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Ms. Siegel has started a nonprofit called ThriftMart, a mega thrift-store that sells donated clothes—many from her own closet—and other items for $1.
The Wild Ride of the 1% Robert Frank 2011
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I read the “Preparing for a MEP Test” pamphlet and realized I was stepping out of thrift-store clothing and into a straitjacket.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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I bought one for $9-50, worth ten times that At a thrift-store.
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Kevorkian cut a vivid image at premieres and awards, sometimes wearing his iconic blue thrift-store sweater with a tuxedo.
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I read the “Preparing for a MEP Test” pamphlet and realized I was stepping out of thrift-store clothing and into a straitjacket.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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A thrift-store jacket with some military-looking wrap was all people saw me wearing from 1996 to 2000.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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These guys dressed sharp, too: both sported dreds twisted tight to the scalp, and both suited up in thrift-store vintage clothing with 1970s jackets, turtlenecks, polyester pants and crazy workman boots.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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A thrift-store jacket with some military-looking wrap was all people saw me wearing from 1996 to 2000.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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