To tell colleagues I bought it in a charity shop?

[Flowerplower]

I was wearing a nice designer dress to work yesterday and a friendly woman colleague complimented me on it. I said thanks, I got it for a fiver in a charity shop, can you believe it? She looked at me like I had 2 heads!

I'm not from the UK so I don't really know what's the norm here...but surely as there are charity shops all over the high street then shopping in them must be pretty mainstream. We work in an office and are well paid professionals but I feel like I have better things to spend my money on than work clothes. If I'm lucky enough to buy a really nice dress for a fiver AIBU to brag about it or should I just say thank you, and I love your necklace or whatever.

*To be fair, I think it's etiquette to accept a compliment with a simple "thank you". Not to go into details about where you bought and it what you paid for it, whether you got it for a fiver in Oxfam or £500 in Harrods.

Christ alive, it’s called making conversation.*

Yep I Ireland it goes.."Oooh I like your dress" then the automatic reply is "Thanks hun,Penney's!"

YANBU, she sounds like a snooty idiot.