3+ mon, 5+ day ago (61+ words) I want a set of 1" letters with velcro (hook and loop/Hook and pile) backing with many doubles so I can quickly make hats with custom messages that I can change on the fly. I'm not looking to pay a few dollars a letter, I want to purchase a set. Where do I find this?I got epistemes to share....

3+ mon, 4+ week ago (114+ words) I am going to the wedding of a second cousin in a few weeks, and the dress code for the main event is Disco Formal. Sequins, bell bottoms, bell sleeves? Sparkle. Not too casual. I have been searching Ebay, ThredUp and Poshmark. Did I miss any places?Added difficulty, long/tall. Apprx size xl or 12ish or 14ish. If anyone feels like playing along! Suggestions/ideas welcome. Ask MetaFilter is a question and answer site that covers nearly any question on earth, where members help each other solve problems. Ask MetaFilter is where thousands of life's little questions are answered. Join 8,311 readers in helping fund MetaFilter All posts copyright their original authors....

1+ hour, 40+ min ago (91+ words) It's time for me to get new glasses (eyeglasses). I've had very similar ones for at least since Covid, and want to know what styles/sizes/colors (or not!) are in right now. What online sources/blogs, people to follow on Insta, Pinterest pages, etc do people look at to find trends for this kind of thing?I don't know how relevant this is to my question, but I'm a mid-40s woman working in an industry that's very male-dominated and blue-collar. Where to find what glasses are trendy...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago (173+ words) History podcast/content creator Who Did What Now? wore a t-shirt in a recent Facebook video that had two AT-ATs (Star Wars imperial walkers) with cat faces on them - so it was a cat-cat t-shirt. I've searched online for this shirt, but my Google-fu is failing me and I've only found inferior versions that have a single cat-faced AT-AT and need text to label it instead of relying on the visual pun of having two of them. Does anyone recognize and know where to find a copy of this t-shirt?(Yes, I could post under the Facebook video directly. But people already comment too much on the appearance of women being smart or talented in non-appearance-related ways on the internet, so if I can find the shirt by asking Metafilter instead and not further contributing to that dynamic, I'd much…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago (84+ words) I'm moving back to NYC after 20 years in exile. What online newsletters or websites should I be subscribed to in order to keep track of any under-the-radar cultural events or exhibitions that might be popping up? The more niche, the better.Already know about TimeOutNY and subscribe to the NewYorker and NYtimes. I check Gothamist periodically and subscribe to Shadowtraffic and NonsenseNY. Primarily interested in arts/theater/culture but also food and history. Thank you! Funky NYC-happenings newsletters and websites...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago (108+ words) So I was window shopping today and saw this gorgeous dress in the window. I crossed the street to get a better look and noticed the price tag so didn't go into the shop.I really like the aesthetic though along with others from the store and was wondering if you all can recommend me similar style dresses or even patterns at a cheaper cost point. I will get out my sewing machine if it means I can lounge around feeling like a person with a fainting couch while drinking tea. I want to swoop around and haunt the titanic. Please help me find more in this aesthetic...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago (237+ words) I like pretty jewelry. I would like to own smart jewelry that is pretty. Help?I am a jewelry aesthete. I also like the idea of smart jewelry a lot. Years ago there was a company called Ringly that made beautiful smart jewelry -- it looked like the kind of jewelry you would buy just to wear as an accessory. I actually still have my Ringly ring (gold-plated, with real lapizs lazuli, they also had rings and bracelets made with snowflake obsidian, larborodite, blue lace agate, rutilated quartz, rainbow moonstone, and a couple of other stone options), but the company went offline years ago, the app stopped working, so while I still wear it as a regular jewelry piece sometimes (because it's lovely!) it is no longer tracking any data. Since then, I've been periodically casting about for something similar, but…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago (195+ words) My son has no pants. He wears jeans and like thick cotton or corduroy type pants, not track pants. I can't figure out where to buy some. I had a cart full of Children's Place Pants but it turns out they were bought out by a U.S. company. Joe Fresh has track pants and ugly cargo pants with ankle elastic. The sort of flagship Canadian brands (Roots, Hatley, MiniMioche) are super $$$$, even if they do have jeans. Surely there's a store I've overlooked and will be smacking my forehead when you name it. Online or in person.I do buy a lot of his clothes used, but pickings are sometimes slim so I would really love to have a place I can reliably buy if let's say, we have no pants, suddenly. Looking for a non-U.S.-owned store selling non-U.S.-owned…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (119+ words) I came across this photo of a cat in a stroller, dressed in a cozy-looking jacket, and now want to find this exact jacket, or a similar one. What keywords should I use to find it? Snowflakes inside!The jacket has what looks to be a fairly large fleece-lined hood, and wide fleece-lined sleeves. Or at least I think they're sleeves. They might just be the front of the jacket draping over the cat's legs. The photo is almost a decade old, so more than likely the jacket is long discontinued. Attempts to reverse-search the image only yielded results for the stroller itself, but nothing about the jacket. [IDFilter] Does this cat jacket still exist?...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago (129+ words) Other than eBay which is not any fun anymore, or Amazon, which is complex and for major sellers, is there any place to sell things online?I'd like to sell some smaller, old or antique one-of-a-kind kitschy items and a few older and out-of-print books. Twenty years ago eBay was fun, and I made a little bit of money, but now it seems like a PITA and the selling prices is all eaten up in fees. Facebook means people coming to the house or arranging meetups, and for smaller items with not much profit it's not worth the hassle. How do I find these fun things a good home and maybe make a couple bucks? Where do the cool kids go to sell things?...