NWT Leggings at Secondhand Stores

I often kvetch about American Apparel’s $42 leggings, but their pricing’s only moderately offensive in comparison with Members Only. The latter costs more than double, and THANK GOD I never tried on a pair at full retail price, because my penchant for leggings would have necessitated buying them on the spot – they really do put AA’s to shame. I realized as much when I happened upon a pair at Buffalo Exchange last week.

I know what you’re thinking: Used leggings?! FOUL! That’s like wearing someone else’s underwear for fuck’s sake – how desperate are you?

I’m desperate enough to buy secondhand shoes, but to bathing suits, leggings, anything spandex that’s ever come close to someone else’s nether region, I usually say nay. This is, of course, based on the assumption that everything at a resale shop has been worn previously. These leggings were new – like, original-tags-still-attached-new – and as such, an exceptional exception. So there.
Finding a new pair of $88 Members Only Stonewash Leggings at a re-sale shop for $13.50 seems like a stroke of good shopping luck, right? WRONG. Earlier that same day, I’d donated two bags of stuff I’d tired of to Goodwill – stuff that might be a source of sartorial glee for someone else someday. Because I so generously parted with things I no longer wear in lieu of hording them in my closet, I was due for karmic payback.

So you see, the Members Only leggings weren’t something I found by chance. They were a gift bestowed on me by the shopping gods. Kind of like when Nancy in The Craft thinks the beached whales are a gift from her satanic deity of choice…except not as creepy.

Sidebar: Don’t they look fab pulled down over heels?! It’s like a non-stirrup stirrup or something. May the Eighties reign fo EVA.