The official thrift/discount store bragging thread - Part II (May 2015 - Sept. 2018)

[Letric]

My first thought:



This is also my first thought when I see Steve Madden shoes on the racks at thrifts.

 

[double00]

shhhhsteeeve medddeen! SSSHTEEVE MIDDDDENN!

i've actually muttered this in the racks! too funny

 

[dhazard]

http://www.ebay.com/usr/suitbay?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

I do not post often but I am an avid lurker. Just thought this was painfully relevant.

 

[Jompso]

so, what your'e saying is.......... you can't pull it off......

No one can pull off an orphaned striped jacket. You just end up looking like Kevin Federline. Especially when you combine them with disco-ball inspired G-Star jeans. You think it looks cool, while everyone else is trying to figure out if you are a modern art masterpiece or an optical illusion.

Dont forget your Fedora...

This!

Personally, I could care less what you wear. The worse you look to women, the better I do, because they may not know the minor faux pas' when it comes to menswear, they are daftly able to recognize a man who has utilized his assets in a proper fashion, and one who is dressed like he is strictly drinking jeagar bombs and calling everyone his bro. You don't think they may find it to look a little odd, a symmetrical pattern meant to run shoulders to the floor, stopping abruptly at the waist, where it is met with a pair of embellished jeans instead. They make women's pants suits as well, they make women's pants suits in patterns such as pinstripe, and you won't find these women wearing pieces of these pants suit separate from one another. The way it drapes is odd because your essentially the dressed equivalent of a mullet, business on top, party on the bottom. Not only are you wearing a pinstriped orphan, but your wearing the wrong jacket entirely. Suit jackets are tailored in a certain fashion as to give off an aura of formality and respect, both for yourself and to give off unto others. Thus it is to be worn in this manner, any other manner is just not what it was made to be worn as. When this type of garment is desired yet it is for a social gathering, these circumstances call for garments called Sport Coats, or Blazers, extremely similar to the aforementioned suit jacket, however these have subtle and sometimes not very subtle and very distinct properties that separate them from one another and for this reason, people own at least one of each, so they can wear the appropriate one at the appropriate occasion. They usually separate the two by making the ladder, that being the sport coat, more versatile, and they do this in various manners. They may construct it using a blend of fabrics that would not hold up well used with a suit, such as 100% cashmere, or wool/silk/linen blends, or Cashmere/Silk blends, they may use wool with a twill weave or another wool that has been milled for the distinct reason as that it is more durable, such as ones labeled high performance, or in other words, high twist wools, these are extremely tight weave allowing for minimal wrinkling yet you sacrifice that drape of your coat the more structure your fabric of choice may be.

Sport Coats, not to be confused with a suit jacket, usually possess some or all of the following, they have softer shoulders because they are not part of a formal uniform and are used for one to dress nice but do so in a manner that is in a more casual manner, weave used on the jacket is one that benefits the appearance of a blazer and/or performance, and would be detrimental to a suits look or appearance. I know I don't want a 50/50 cashmere silk hop sack suit. Weaves such as sharkskin, nail-head, birdseye, or just silken smooth sheen luster are held for suits, because these are subtle variations in the wools finish, and just affect it aesthetically. These weaves also are much more fragile and prone to catch on objects because they are thin. You want your suit to hang fluidly, giving the wool an appearance of being constructed of a wool an extremely fine size? Do you really want your sport coat to be of full canvass constructions (your suiting separates, yes of course you do) and your body shell or horse hair, separate only by fabric, giving not like to the article A flowing jacket drape with your shiny G-Stars and leather converse you said? (really? to the bar?...are women blind below the waist where you're from or does ones financial ability to provide for themselves or provide for their body by dressing it properly, not hold the same weight as it does here?They are a versatile piece of your wardrobe that when needed can still display the shape of your shoulder, however it is an extremely soft construction, result in more of a roll off your shoulder, rather then the drop you get from your Suit Jacket. They even often are unstructured altogether. Now If I were to show up to a bar in an casual yet tailored pair of nice chinos, a pair of Borrellis I own would be a perfect example, have some freshly polished Alden Cordovan 975 LWB gunboats adorning my size 11.5s, a nice shirt, perhaps a Finamore blue gingham, and then instead of wearing a suit jacket that would completely throw off the entire balance of the outfit, instead, GET THIS, put on a Sport Coat, perhaps an unstructured Boglioli Donegal tweed Fleck, or perhaps one of my Zegnas with soft shoulders, cashmere compositions, and bold patterns, I would come off as someone who knew how to properly balance an outfit and wear something also appropriate for the circumstance. I don't have the best minds eye so my outfit may be off slightly matching wise or whatever, however the point is, is that I'm dressed like an adult. Someone who knows the uses, purposes, and reasons your wardrobe is the way it is. I am NOT DRESSED like someone who just donated the last of his Christian Audigier gear and has graduated onto his big boy clothes. Trust me, you are doing nothing original. Your non-conformity is just proof of your refusal to conform, which is an act of conformity, and very original at that. You represent nothing, your logic is absurd, you re-purpose clothing and then act smug and superior as if this puts you above us and that we are just lemmings bound to the laws of society. No, we are just adults who choose to dress like ones. And trust me, I can go a very very long time without wearing the same thing twice, and that is someone using the same wardrobe everyday to get dressed...what are the odds that someone else with a different one dresses exactly a like me. Not great. not representing a plight or initiating the beginning of a unofficial reform where this reality will change. I think it's safe to say I can be extremely individual with my vast selection of choices to go to, that I am not forced to go the route of someone who clearly is choosing to just refuse basic societal practices and understandings. I would also like to assure you that you are not original in doing this. You are not the first, you are not the last, you are not a fashion alchemist who has found methods the rest of us mere lemmings would never dream of or could imagine. That re-purposing clothing and using it in a manner you think works for yourself is completely original. It's not, at all, it in fact, doesn't put you above any rule or make you an exception by standing up to it and not conforming, no you are still conforming, just to the stance countless people before you have taken and countless after will. Conforming with all others refusing to conform to societal norms in some sense or another and the belief that they have proven superiority and/or are an exception to certain rules or practices. Congrats, you're not the first, you're not the last, your rationalization is purely just that. A way to convince yourself that you are right. Likening yourself to one practicing the sartorial equivalent of alchemy with a smug, false sense of superiority, gives off a strong hint of delusional and irrational thinking as well.

 

[double00]

LET IT BE HEARD!

If thou does not post fit pics, let thou'st shut the **** up about what should and shouldn't be worn.

SO MOTE IT BE!

 

[Denton]

Anyone know Bolzano? Felt great...

 

[bdavro23]

LET IT BE HEARD!

If thou does not post fit pics, let thou'st shut the **** up about what should and shouldn't be worn.

SO MOTE IT BE!

LET IT BE HEARD!

If your wardrobe looks like you raided the costume department at the Grand Ole Opry, I'll say whatever the **** I want about it.

 

[double00]

^^^
so much for sprezz

and now i have to live the rest of my days knowing that some dude can say what he likes without me caring

 

[dexconstruct]

LET IT BE HEARD!

If your wardrobe looks like you raided the costume department at the Grand Ole Opry, I'll say whatever the **** I want about it.

I think you stumbled into the wrong thread. You might want to take a look around before busting out the attitude.

 

[TheODGuy]

POP!
Brioni Summer Paul Oxfords

 

[Jompso]

For the same $1 Million dollars you could get:

3/4 of an acre, 6600 Sg. Ft. and a gorgeous house http://www.weigand.idxco.com/idx/3929/details.php?idxID=659&listingID=503649

Or almost a half acre, 6000 Sg. ft, and on the golf course http://www.weigand.idxco.com/idx/3929/details.php?idxID=659&listingID=356277

For 32% less than $1 Million you could get a very nice historic sprawling ranch and a full acre http://www.weigand.idxco.com/idx/3929/details.php?idxID=659&listingID=505214

OR one of my favorites: how about a 25% savings on that million dollars, you get a huge house, and a private dock on a nice private lake. http://www.weigand.idxco.com/idx/3929/details.php?idxID=659&listingID=504672

Here's the back of the house with the private dock.



or if you really need some sq ft, here is over 8,000

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12425-W-Jayson-Ct-Wichita-KS-67235/77396715_zpid/

These numbers mean nothing. My property values are based on proximity to thrifts. Ones ability to build a suitable thrift route. An ability to create an alternate route, taking you to a different area with different thrifts, a few times that week, to keep things interesting. And the probability of finds on either route. Find me a realtor that can crunch those numbers and Ill take the lake house.

I am going to opt out of the money talk, ones wealth is to remain their private business unless extenuating circumstances arise. I'm not going to start drawing comparisons to the home I grew up in and mother still lives in, or the house on the water I actually do possess, but suffice it to say, that Wichita gives you bang for your buck. I'd need to see a Brioni suit or at the very least, a Kiton orphan before any papers were to get signed though. Geez I wonder how I could be living for what I pay in rent here, there. I'd be chillin with Koch.

Wow. There is a lot to be said for waking up next to the ocean. But, that does seem insane for a RV park. The realtor's cliche is true as always -- location, location, location.

It's truly crazy. Malibu is like it's own little mini-town now though. The most hilarious mini-town ever. Once you move out to Malibu, it takes so long to get back into the city and there's literally only 1 road that you can take, that being the Pacific Coast Highway that runs up and down the ocean. It gets clogged all the time, every day, and an accident? forget it, you won't see people from Malibu for days. So they built the Malibu Country Mart. Essentially their version of a little towns main road. A place to get what you need if you don't want to go into the city. The rest of the country would think these people are just flat out ******* crazy after looking at this place. All the restaurants are amongst the most expensive in Los Angeles, but there are a couple just walk in places for lunch of whatever. For clothing it offers Chrome Hearts, Ron Herman, their own Oliver Peoples store (how a small beach community needs its own Oliver peoples store is just hilarious), Madison, Curve Boutique, Planet Blue, RRL, and a James Perse store. Don't expect you to know all these place, but to put it simply, if you live in Malibu and just need 1 t-shirt, you literally have to pay at least 50 bucks, if you need a pair of pants, you have to pay at least 200 bucks. A sweatshirt? Chrome Hearts is famous for theirs (don't like the aesthetic but that's besides the point) so that's $350 at least. And that place Curve Boutique, they sell designer stuff that no one in the country has or sells except for BH and Manhattan Barneys. Jean Paul Gaultier, Balmain, Sharon Waucomb, and Lemaire, and you haven't heard of those brands, because a white T-shirt from Lemaire costs $650 bucks. Their cheapest brand is Alexander Wang and his sweatpants cost 800. If you have a beach lot in Malibu, it's worth 5 million sight unseen, undeveloped. So you build a nice home on your lot and you got 10 mil property. So there's all these people that live in these beach homes that are worth at least 7-8 mil each, and there's hundreds and hundreds, then you get into places like Malibu Colony where it's gated Beach front, and those are about 15 mil each lot, and the lots are less then a half acre. One just sold for 20 million and was a .4 acre lot. But the people with homes here usually have homes in the city too, they rent these. The going rate of monthly rent in Malibu colony is roughly $100,000 a month. Some people like to buy connecting lots so they can build bigger properties then they have, so if you have a double lot, or if you're like the Morton family or my friend who has a triple lot, you're doing pretty well for yourself. He's never there, just a part time weekend home if he wants, but his place is worth like 75-100 mil.

 

[jdrizzy]

POP!
Brioni Summer Paul Oxfords

gtf outta here with your sick finds! This is not helping for my withdrawal

 

[Nobleprofessor]

http://www.ebay.com/usr/suitbay?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

I do not post often but I am an avid lurker. Just thought this was painfully relevant.

Damn. That guy has 6500 feedback. So, he has probably sold 8000 of those ****** suits. If you are willing to buy a suit on ebay and spend $149 why buy crap!

I picked an average size 44R and checked all mens suits that are for sale for between $125 and $150. For that amount, someone can buy a very nice Zegna, Brooks Brothers, several Hickey Freeman, Canali, Paul Smith, Ferragamo, etc. Hell, a boring old Jos A Bank would be better than this guy's ****.

 

[TheODGuy]

Just noticed this, but apparently Orlebar Brown uses Lampo zippers on a cotton hoodie?!

 

[impuntura]

LET IT BE HEARD!

If thou does not post fit pics, let thou'st shut the **** up about what should and shouldn't be worn.

SO MOTE IT BE!

Well said ,I'm hearing a lot of yapping from one dude in particular who we don't even know what he looks like.

Speaking of thrift pic from Baltic Sea, Smith sunglasses,GSTAR low vneck (I know I know) Barbour Quilted jacket, bottom not seen Nudies selvedge with Airwalks...oh an ILLY coffee