Thanks to a plethora of fashion blogs and excerpts in magazines in reference to the topic of thrifting as a way of distinguishing one's wardrobe from the masses, NYC thrift stores are in general, a waste of time. Paying $40 for a sheer Galliano tank top, might be a steal, but that fact is over shadowed by the appearance of the rather tepid used and abused shirt. Gone are the department store thrift store of New England with their gluttonous racks, and in their place are boutique style thrift stores with scantily clad racks of over priced worn things.
No thank you.
Discouraged by what seemed to be a roadblock in my love for rack diving, I mopped to my new New Yorker friends, who then told me about the two most gloriously dangerous stores in NYC: Century 21 and Nordstrom Rack. Both stores are so filled to the brim that if they were a corseted woman in Victorian England, there would be a wardrobe failure and a hasty marriage.
That being said, here are some Century 21 gems.
I know why I did not buy this... no where to wear it.
But I do not know why I did not buy this gem with birds and a collar.
Classy
Trashy.
