Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 18, 2024

Was not expecting that from Arlo. Speaking personally, an advantage of having daughters is you acquire a wardrobe of their liking. Daughter-in-laws also have better taste than me.

Cool!

On your mark…get set…go! and type your personal thrift store anecdote. Me, I like getting pants there

Arlo is a man after my own heart.

Thrift stores are the primary source for retro clothing stores.

I have been getting my jeans at a Mennonite store for the past 10 years. They are the ones that don’t make the “inspected by Number 5” for the regular stores. They last a good long while. This is a thrift store too besides getting home made products.

I don’t think I’ve ever bought a suit anywhere other than one thrift store or another. Once, I even bought the jacket and pants at two different thrift stores.

She can’t get her jackets on, her solution is to save them. He can get his jackets on, her solution is to get rid of them.

“We’ll” donate them to a thrift shop? Only if Arlo can go through her side of the closet to take an equal number of items for donation to a thrift shop.

cut generously have to remember that

My experience is that women love getting deals in thrift shops and that men are just weirded out by wearing others clothing…

In my town all 3 thrift stores (GW and a local organization) have been fighting bed bugs for years. I am afraid to even walk in to the one nearest me, it’s so bad. That said, back in 1996 I bought an original Lily Pulitzer dress for a 60’s theme party for $1.50; the same dress is selling these days for $400 on eBay. I of course gave it away in 1997…

They will come back into style.

I found that the thrift stores located in “well to do” suburbs have excellent items. I picked up a very high dollar dress coat for a couple of bucks at one that still had the store price tag attached.

Timeless!

Arlo Thrift stores are for the needy……I thought?

One of the first things I did when I retired years ago was get rid of my suits. You generally don’t need suits here in San Diego where the uniform for 9 or 10 months of the year is T Shirt, Shorts, Flip Flops. For the cold months, 50’s , the uniform is T Shirt, Puffy Jacket, Shorts, Uggs.

I’m wondering why his response to Janis in the first panel wasn’t triggering?

Leave his clothes choices to him.

hum… Janis it the finest … not hardly dated … somehow i feel he’s not going to get rid of her.

I remember one Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert is picking on Dilbert (who is wearing a rented tux) by saying I not the one who paid $100 to wear somebody else’s pants.

Deal breaker? If not, leave ’er alone….

Jack Spratt and his wife.

I picked up a nice Eisenhower jacket from WWII back in 1969 and I put a peace sign patch on one of the upper arms and an American flag patch on the other.

I own 2 pairs of wearable (intact) jeans and 3 pairs of ripped ones to wear in the house. I have 20 nice, blouse-like, tee shirts and 4 of even nicer ones and 5 ripped ones ditto. I have a black skirt, brown skirt and navy skirt, black slacks, brown slacks and navy slacks. I wear jeans and tee shirts daily. I use the ripped jeans and tee shirts to sleep in at night or when staying in the house all day. I also have 4 sweatshirts to wear if it is cold.

Pair of boys’ black sneakers, pair of boys’ black shoes and a pair of boy’s slippers. I wear small size shoes and the boys shoes tend to be what I like instead of the girls – cotton candy pink slippers are not for me.

Winter jacket and rain jacket, snow boots, and gloves.

I have had all of these for some time since long before Covid – some of the tee shirts moved here with us in the 1990s. Only things which need to be replaced are jeans, socks and underwear.

My husband will use the unused drawers in my dresser and space in my closet which I don’t need for space for his clothing.

I never understand why people need so much clothing and new clothing all the time.