Rag Trade

Dishrags :: Melodie // Sussexx // No flashWhenever I see really cheap and ugly clothing on Ozsale, one of the sales websites I shop at, I hear my mum’s inimitable Croatian accent in my head, disdainfully pronouncing judgment: ‘Krpa!’ This means ‘dishrag’. As in: ‘Why would you want to wear such a hideous, rubbishy garment?’ Far less waste money on it.

A krpa, to me, usually implies any shapeless garments with uneven hemlines made from cheesecloth or cheap cotton-poly fabric and featuring brash, chintzy prints and other bedraggled details such as cheap polyester lace trim, rick-rack and the like. These are some expensive dishrags above.