Buying your hankies?

[Tucked Hankie]

How do you usually buy your handkerchiefs? Online (anonymous way), or go to a store?  I personally prefer to always go to a store and feel that shame of interacting with the store employee while I choose and pay for my hankies.

[Morningsmith]

I've actually bought a number of mine in thrift stores. No one wants the lovely old things!

[Hankie lover]

I buy mine in stores sometimes order online it makes me feel great when i buy them in the store.

[Hankyrick]

I've mostly purchased mine online as the ones in the stores round where I live are smaller ones around 16" square. The majority of mine are 18" to 20" inch square

[Trynasneeze]

16 hours ago, Tucked Hankie said:

How do you usually buy your handkerchiefs? Online (anonymous way), or go to a store?  I personally prefer to always go to a store and feel that shame of interacting with the store employee while I choose and pay for my hankies.

 

I've only bought mine in store. Not sure why it's shameful to interact with the employees?

[Hankysneeze]

A mixture of both. I find the ones in stores are not as unique, generally just plain white.

[launderedlace]

Nowadays almost totally on-line, as it's rare to find new interesting / beautiful ones in shops - it's probably 10+ years since I was last able to indulge browsing, and buying from, an in-store display very much like @Hankysneeze 's profile pic. However, there are still places like antique fairs (and charity shops) to find some gorgeous ones: an idea written into the 'Embroidered Handkerchief Distraction - The Fiction' story. French eBay for fabulous vintage lace ones; US eBay for large appliqued ones, although import costs etc now appear to be getting trickier