Done ([info]been_a_book) wrote,
@ 2009-09-16 21:09:00
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Tales of shopping
Life in the city is pretty good. Yesterday Natalie and I went to Good Will, Thrift Town, and Good Vibrations [NSFW]. I'll be courteous and withhold pictures of what I picked up at Good Vibrations, but you need to see what I found at Thrift Town. When I picked it off the "uniforms" shelf, I knew something was awry. The top definitely seemed uniform-like, but the second piece was shorts. Short shorts. It struck me that I'd seen Sean Connery wear things like this in the Bond movies, but couldn't figure it out until Natalie identified it. This is a swim set from the 1960s. A nice low-cut button-down shirt and shorts that sit above your navel and rise way more than halfway up your thighs.

Natalie managed to find a picture of what I'm talking about, and also took pictures of my awesome find.







Now I just have to find something to do with this treasure.




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[info]vghoul
2009-09-17 04:52 am UTC (link)
You have to find something to do!?! Go to the ocean!!!!! DO IT FOR ME SO I CAN PRETEND TO BE VISITING THE OCEAN IN MAGICALLY-NOT-UNFLATTERING SWIMWEAR VICARIOUSLY

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[info]calledmara
2009-09-17 05:17 am UTC (link)
the ocean here is too cold for flattering swimwear :(

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[info]vghoul
2009-09-17 05:24 am UTC (link)
I am constantly burning up in Indiana and my earliest memories of the Ocean are in Northern New England, so I bet I wouldn't agree ;)

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[info]been_a_book
2009-09-18 05:32 am UTC (link)
A widely known secret: I have a hard time enjoying the beach because I hate sand. That said, there is a really nice pebble beach up in Bodega Bay. The Pacific is really just a dip-your-ankles kind of ocean.

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[info]burningbooks
2009-09-18 01:12 am UTC (link)
OBVIOUSLY WHAT YOU DO IN THAT OUTFIT IS SIT IN A DECK CHAIR DRINKING A HIGHBALL AND READING JOHN CHEEVER SHORT STORIES!!


.... FOREVER

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[info]been_a_book
2009-09-18 05:31 am UTC (link)
I've never read any Cheever, actually, though he seems up my alley.

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[info]burningbooks
2009-09-18 03:26 pm UTC (link)
Highly recommended. I adore John Cheever.

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