Ooh, its Valentine’s Day tomorrow, and it falls on the weekend!
It’s a great reason to celebrate, so why not dress up and have dinner with a loved one.
Or maybe spend some time with family and/or friends.
Or none of the above and just dress up anyway to find your Valentine. That is, if you want one in the first place.
I went out seeking some bargain fashion ideas for anyone doing the whole romantic evening thing, a blind date, drinks, a barbeque or any other ‘thing’ they choose for Valentine’s Day.
I popped into the MS Community op shop on Pakington St, Geelong West – it’s one of the many great op shops I frequent in Geelong.
It’s incredibly exciting what you can find, plus the stock changes daily, so you can regularly find different items of interest.
The range includes clothing, shoes, ornaments, hats and handbags, and classic vintage items from high-end stores, which are real snapper-uppers.
I spent a whopping $7.50 on a gorgeous dark pink classic-looking dress with a matching neck scarf.
The shop occasionally has sales with 50 per cent off all clothing, which only heightens the shopping excitement.
Everything’s at wonderfully low prices, plus the money you spend goes to charity.
To put together an entire outfit, I found stylish red trousers marked down from $6 to $3, and a subtle leopard print and red flowered top slashed from $5 to only $2.50.
Sexy high-heeled shoes with sparkly detail were full price at $10, while a nude gold-detail clutch bag’s full price was only $15.
To complete the look, I chose a gorgeous chunky costume diamond jewellery necklace for just $12.
Altogether, my Valentine’s Day outfit totalled $42.50 – and looked fab without breaking the bank!
The MS Community shop will have another 50-per-cent-off-all-clothing sale next week, so happy shopping.
Now, to leave you with something to read aloud with a smile, a classically clichéd Valentine’s Day poem from 1784 English nursery rhyme booklet Gammer Gurton’s Garland:
‘The rose is red, the violet’s blue
The honey’s sweet and so are you
Though art my love and I am thine
I drew thee to my Valentine
The lot was cast and then I drew
And Fortune said it should be you.’
