After last week's questioning and 'Um-ing' and 'Ah-ing' over posh Oxfams about to pop up all over the UK, I think this week, I was able to exemplify charity shops smartening up and sadly, in a few years time, designer bargains in charity shops will be virtually extinct.  In my local Animal Aid (and I live in a mundane-as-muck London suburb...), I saw this John Richmond dress from the 80's and it was priced at £10.  Not a great deal of money in London terms but not the £3 cheapie steals that I used to buy...

Turns out, they consulted Lazooli next door to confirm that it was from the 1980's (yup, that decade is now officially a 'long time ago'...), hence the tenner price tag.  Grudgingly, I have to admit there is nothing wrong with knowing the value of the donated wares seeing as the money goes to charity anyway but I guess it's just an observation of the shift of times in charity shopping, making me glad that I started doing the thrift rounds early on...(thank you dad for harping on about the merits of charity shopping and carboot sales...).