Sep11
SEPTEMBER INCENTIVE ON TWC!!!
So yeah, as unbelievable as it is, we’re celebrating 25 years of Puck! This stupid comic was started a quarter century ago by some dumb teen. Now that teen is old and has back pains and the comic is still somehow going. Let’s celebrate!
VOTE TO CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES!!!
As for this comic…
It must be said that for a woman of limited financial means, Puck really does seem to have an extensive wardrobe. Her closet isn’t as deep as Phoebe, who seemingly never re-wears a single garment, but it’s pretty extensive. This is more to do with my desire to keep things fresh than any comment on the character. But it is an impressive achievement of hers nonetheless.
Well it looks like Tracee is slowly getting there in terms of being a nice person…slow and steady…
Very slow.
Oh, that’s why I don’t like her. Thank you reminding us.
The secret, of course, is being friends with Phoebe.
I don’t think Phoebe makes ALL of Puck’s clothes. She’s gotta have a shrewd eye for a deal.
Anything made by the Phoebs has gott’a help.
So, two questions occur to me as I read this post.
Does Phoebe make her own clothes – in which case, she is an amazing designer – or is she as severely impacted as Tracee by her father’s sudden poverty?
If Phoebe is responsible for the design of some of those amazing designer outfits, isn’t it in Tracee’s bestest and shallowest interest to “kiss up” to her *cough* daughter-in-law?
Just overthinking a comedy comic strip….
Yes, Phoebe is a talented seamstress and designs/sews her own clothing.
See the “Prom” chapter for an example.
Yes, Phoebe makes all of her own clothes. She’s a fashion iconoclast.
And yes, it would make sense to kiss up to Phoebe for clothes-related purposes, but I don’t think Phoebe is in a very receptive headspace right now.
Yep, very true. Clothes-making influenced by her ID could result in something very un-Tracee-like.
If not a nun’s habit, then something severe, high collared, and Victorian spinster-ish with complicated fastenings.
About to visit places Tracee didn’t know existed? Walmart? T. J. Maxx? Bealls?
Worse: the thrift shop.
I can afford new clothes, but some of my favorite dress shirts of all times were ones I found at the thrift shop for like $3 each.
Exactly. Some good stuff in those shops.
If something lasts long enough to end up in a thrift shop, then it is probably well made.
Not haute couture but definitely bonne qualitie couture.
I’m not happy with the phrase “bonne qualitie”.
Mayhaps I should have use “couture parfait”.
Which is in Baxley, GA, apparently.
Precisely.
Appropos of this chain of thought…I just saw a story about somebody finding a five-figure-price wedding dress in a Goodwill in Alabama, which cost her thirty-five dollars.
By “need a little help” I’m not sure Tracee means shopping advice on budget clothing… I think she wants Puck to pay for the clothing.
Indeed.
“poor people good.” Actually laughed out loud. I’d be happy with that compliment!
When the ‘rich’ wear things once then toss them out to avoid being seen in them again, or a fashion line clears unsold inventory, or the stores dump unsold sizes to make room for new stock, or trucks get ‘stolen’ and the insurance has already paid for the things inside, they end up in a ‘thrift store’. There’s a big chain in this area that flat out refuses to tell anyone where they get their things from but most of them still have the labels on them at a fraction of any store price.
A lot of people wear a lot of very nice things for a small town 😉
This is the reason why American Eagle started burning their excess inventory: they didn’t want to see the horror of poor people wearing their pricey t-shirts.
Burning their excess stock!? What a crappy company.
Gets their stuff made in sweatshops in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Mexico.
Sells their product for inflated prices. Quite probable that their gear isn’t even that good.
Would prefer to burn their excess rather than donating to someone like Goodwill.
Sounds like hubris, not a good look.
When word got out, there was a big backlash.
Pity Puck didn’t deposit ten or twenty bucks in the Bank of Montreal a century ago . . . or she did, and y’know, bank fees, service charges . . .
Pity. Though I do think the service charges mean that most everything at a bank is now a net negative earner.
I don’t think she HAD twenty spare bucks century ago. Or ever.
A century ago, twenty bucks was a lot of money. And I agree, she doesn’t seem like the sort of lass to have it to spare.
Hey, twenty bucks was quite the king’s ransom a century ago. Okay, not a king’s ransom, but a fair deal of money.
True, twenty dollars in 1923 would buy 400 candy bars . . . . I think we know where that 20 went!
Hey, who can resist a giant pile of candy bars?
A Baron’s second son’s puppy’s ransom.
Hey, bronze is worth something.
Maybe not bronze. Tin, perhaps?
Time to pop some tags.
Cue Macklemore.
The best thrift stores I’ve been in curate their offerings very well, because just like any other store, they have only so much shelf space to make money from.
St. Vinny’s around here clears out their stock cleverly: each week of new stock gets a price tag of a particular color, e.g. blue, green. To clear out old stock, they run a sale: Thursday anything of the color tag from four weeks ago is half off, Saturday 75% off, Monday anything with that color tag is $1.25 (used to be 99 cents but … inflation). I don’t think I’ve needed to purchase a new shirt since 2005.
And the money goes to a cause.
And if it turns out I don’t like the shirt, I re-donate it; it’s like a rental.
That’s a well-run shop.
“Spinning straw into bronze”… I swear, the hovertext is often at least as funny as the comic.
I can’t take full credit. I believe I stole it from the Red Letter Media crew in their review of ‘Rise of Skywalker’. Specifically they were talking about J.J. Abrams was trying to do with the broken, tattered pieces of a franchise that had been left after ‘Last Jedi’.
I actually liked Last Jedi. I also liked the original ending of How I Met Your Mother. I worry about my taste.
Last Jedi had some good concepts and scenes. But as the second movie in a trilogy, it was a terrible move.
Nah, it’s a good film.
Color coordination! That’s how to look good! (And if one has a nice body, a little skin exposure doesn’t hurt.) 🙂
You are wise, my friend. You are wise.
Thanks! And that’s a great Pooh takeoff! Finally that undersized tee looks good!