Elisabrat,
I have no where to go here to dress up. Just wear jeans an tees or sweat shirts most all the time. I have pants and sweaters left from when I worked and blouses. I am wearing out shoes here. I have plenty of jeans. I could pass the .50 clothes sales. Good pair of black pants and good top will do it here. Coats that one shop they would mark to $1 or giveaway. I do not care what brand of jeans I wear. Normal jeans. Old jeans goes for quilts. I bought a few colored pairs for the quilts when on sale for $1 or less. And I hunted for bright yellow ones for a quilt I designed . I was at a out of town thrift and found two pair of bright yellow huge ones, brand new. I am sure I will need to wash several times before I cut them. Bigger the jeans, more material. Sometimes it takes a long time to gather up enough material of type needed. And the colors to work with. I want to get rid of the scrap stuff and then go original quilts. I have some wild ideas I guess to try.
I have not bought any quilt material this year. Last year I did toss a couple pair of old jeans in to the stash. not buying for it, just one I had to quit wearing. I bought very little last year Till Thanksgiving.
I want to make some butterfly quilts. seemed to be very popular back in the 30's. Uses up little scrap stash.