My charity shop scarf

I was strolling down Linthorpe Road today on my way to McDonalds, when something shiny caught my eye.

What was it?

Teesside Hospice Charity Chic Boutique.

Now why had this never caught my eye before?

Had I suddenly fallen behind in the fashion stakes?

Or was it simply a brand new shop?

I don’t know but I had to go in!

I ventured down there this afternoon, excited about what I might find. I was expecting lots of designer lovelies at purse-friendly prices but disappointingly, on this occasion, that’s not what I found, although I did pick up a gorgeous scarf.

The window displays were amazing and that’s what tempted me in. Sadly I couldn’t find anything in the shop resembling the quality of the window display. Perhaps I should have just been cheeky and asked for the clothes on the mannequins.

The shop itself is lovely, it used to be a designer childrenswear store called Angels. When that closed down the shop fittings were left over, leaving a stunning blank canvas for Teesside Hospice to move into.

Maybe I didn’t spend long enough in the shop or look hard enough, but I struggled to find designer and instead found plenty of other people’s unwanted bits and pieces.

Now there’s nothing wrong with good old High Street fashions and obviously most of what is donated to charity shops is going to come from there, it’s just the items for sale didn’t meet my expectations of ’boutique’ bargains.

Anyway I shouldn’t criticise the charity and to be fair I did find some cute bits of jewellery and a couple of nice scarves. I bought one of the scarves, for a bargain-busting £2.

And I will keep popping in, in the hope of finding something fabulously fashionable and ’boutique’ – it is for charity after all!

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