OP here -- thanks for the great posts with recommendations and thoughts.

We did visit Top Shop in Springfield and picked up a couple of items on sale (jeans for $20!) AND THEN we visited the Salvation Army store. Picked up about 15 items (including a beautiful pair of Banana Republic pants) for a little over $50.

She's thrilled with her purchases and likes knowing she has plenty more $ to spend. (I gave her a $500 clothing budget for back-to-school clothes, to be used up to the end of December.)

I get the sense we will be on the thrift store circuit for a while.

My DD goes to Unique Thrift Store (by Luther Jackson MS) for 'cheaper thrift' as opposed to consignment etc.

I'd caution you to not let your dd spend too much before school starts. Kids get bombarded with all sorts of looks when they start high school, and it takes them a couple of months to find a style they like.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The image above is not a million miles away from my aesthetic as a teen.

I thrifted a LOT. My girlfriends and I would take a whole day and hit ten thrift stores. We'd spend $15 and have 3 new outfits.

I didn't know that there was a verb "to thrift".

There's a word for everything.

My friend would Skype with her husband who's currently in Italy. She thought she made up the word Skypare (the "infinitive" of skyping in Italian). It's already being used.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The image above is not a million miles away from my aesthetic as a teen.

I thrifted a LOT. My girlfriends and I would take a whole day and hit ten thrift stores. We'd spend $15 and have 3 new outfits.

I didn't know that there was a verb "to thrift".

American Heritage dictionary says so:

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=thrift

thrift (thr?ft)
n.
1. Wise economy in the management of money and other resources; frugality.
2. Vigorous growth of living things, such as plants.
3. Any of several densely tufted plants of the genus Armeria, especially A. maritima, having white to pink flower heads with a funnel-shaped scarious calyx.
4. A savings and loan association, credit union, or savings bank. Also called thrift institution.
intr.v. thrift·ed, thrift·ing, thrifts
To shop in thrift stores, especially for clothing: "I'd hoped the zine would connect all sort of people—[who] understood how much cooler it was to thrift than to buy new junk" (Al Hoff).
[Middle English, prosperity, perhaps from Old Norse, from thr?fask, to thrive; see THRIVE.]

Anonymous wrote:The image above is not a million miles away from my aesthetic as a teen.

I thrifted a LOT. My girlfriends and I would take a whole day and hit ten thrift stores. We'd spend $15 and have 3 new outfits.

I didn't know that there was a verb "to thrift".

Anonymous wrote:The image above is not a million miles away from my aesthetic as a teen.

I thrifted a LOT. My girlfriends and I would take a whole day and hit ten thrift stores. We'd spend $15 and have 3 new outfits.

yeah

This is truly edgy!

Some of the best outfits my friends wore came from thrift shops.

Anonymous wrote:I buy my childrens clothes in London.

London, OH or London, KY?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I buy my childrens clothes in London.

How nice for you.

Is this poster the Paris poster? Has she gone off to London school shopping now?