Originally Posted by Tilladare
If you can afford new cloth, don't use the wool suit that might have helped a poor person get a job, or keep them from being quite as cold...
That is so far out of left field thinking, it doesn't make sense. The newer in style wool blended suits/clothes at the thrift store are what the people are buying to wear, the older out of style pure fiber items are what quilters/needleworkers buy.