The official thrift/discount store bragging thread - Page 3530

Found this Canali at the thrift around the corner from the office.

 

 

I can't imagine it going with anything I own. If anyone has suggestions on shirts/jackets, please let me know, or PM if you can give it a better home.

whew! Finally caught up with the thread after DAYS of trying here and there.

 

Awesome finds on the Lobb and multiple Kiton as well as some Sartoria Partenopia for the first time I can remember!

 

 

I was in Belgium around Christmas time a few years ago and loved it. It seems like Europe is much more communal than the US around the holidays with big gatherings in the squares. I got pretty warm on spiced wine. Damn, now I want to travel... 

Nice to see someone else from "The Garden of England" !  I'm also looking at moving out to the states in the coming years but hopefully i'll be able to hold on to my accent!  I do enjoy some of the idiosyncrasies like "waaderrr" and girls in general are so much more open and approachable.

Yeah South Africa - very interesting and attractive country. My family could not stay there long though - we were burgled like 3 times and the crime there is beyond bad. Nice country though, if the crime rate goes to 10% current, I would consider moving there. Great beaches, food and weather. However, I would not be happy going to work knowing there is actually a real statistical chance that my wife could be mugged or raped inside her own home. My Grandmother was raped - astonishing but true. She immigrated down there and the police found her tied up in a closet. Only can happen in South Africa IMO. Absolutely astonishing and sad!

I have one good question for you: How did you become so excellent at English? Seriously, you have superlative English and grammar skills, better than mine in fact and I am a native speaker


Kent - yeah Garden of England is funny. Anybody that went to Chatham, Dover, Dartford, etc, I do not think Garden is the appropriate term LOL.

Haha, at least we have these guys to clear the junk off the racks for us!

Nice finds!!

I've wondered where you've been, you've been light on the posts lately! Christmas and Advent is big here and mulled wine is the big drink. The city center is packed most evenings with people standing around getting pissed. I usually take some of my classes out for a round for an evening before Christmas.

If you're interested in making it over this way, you know how to get in touch!

Quite the mystery, eh? Well, English is a native language of mine. My nationalities are a bit complicated, but to say the least we have a few passports floating around the house. It's funny though, in German I'll begin a sentence in proper German and finish it in local dialect, or vice versa. People are often confused as to whether I'm Austrian, German, Swiss or Dutch . When my wife and I first met, she had learned English in another accent and both of our vocabularies have merged and I now have a hard time knowing whether a saying or phrase is British, American or a Germanism/translation. Example: I heard someone use the word "ghost driver" in English and I had to check to actually see if it's used in that way in English. (it's not, it's Geisterfahrer in German, but in English it's just someone that drives the wrong way on the motorway.).

The crime rate in South Africa is intimidating to even consider. There is a show called Goodbye, Deutschland! that shows Germans moving abroad and their experiences. One German couple moved to South Africa and it showed their armed security guard arrive to stay at the house with the wife while the husband went to work. It's really awful to hear about your grandmother, I can't imagine living with such a fear every day.

I found these wholecuts today, marked as John Mac Gray. This is pre cleaning, im pretty sure they will clean up nicely. Checked out the nail pattern thread and im pretty sure they are made by Sutor Mantalessi. Could you guys confirm this? :)

 

 

 

 

 

Had a shitty day at work and decided to stop at my usual stop near work:



aack.

Also left a bunch of stuff including a orphaned Zegna jacket marked 64R

edit: holy shit I need to trim my nails

^^ Wow, didn't catch that RLPL. Ugh, they're getting ridiculous! I was there when those suits came out. There were like 5 recent Zegna orphan jackets that were just trashed. One complete suit but the pants look like they had been through a couple wars. Seriously the worst condition pants I have ever seen in my life. I should have taken pictures. So shiny they look like someone sprayed polyurathane on them and the pocket seams were shreaded and re-sewn multiple times.

Where were you born?

If I had to say a nationality for myself, based on Passport, it is British. Depending on how long I intend to stay in America, I may go for nationality here.

Digging in my family background, I have less British ancestry than German. My father is British, his father British and that opens up that line. On that side, I am directly related to Charles Darwin. My father's mother is Dutch. On my mother's side, her parents are descendants from Germany (One grandmother was British, the rest of her family came from Germany). I am more German than British going by ancestry. I am a little sketchy on what constitutes German nationalities however, since a few of my German relatives left Germany before WW2 started to escape persecution. My mother said her grandparents on her father's side were Jewish, while on her mother's side, her grandparents were British and German respectively. Surname on her father's side was Doller while on her mother's side the surname was Muller.

 

HUGE SHOUT OUT!!!!

 

Can't thank you enough for the proxy. For all you guys that wanted them, they are def 100% US 7.5D and are even on the small side of 7.5D. Based on fit, I would have said they were a 7D US as they are just slightly roomy enough for me and I'm not sure anyone here has smaller feet then me.

Found this weird jacket.

Silver buttons that say Brioni Roma
it's like a de constructed herringbone, and it's not a damaged herringbone since I found this fabric scrap in the pocket with a number tag sewn to it

it's double vented too. fits me perfectly but I have no where to wear it.

also found a George nelson clock one of the ones they sold at ross for $15 at the thrift for $8. but 3 fins are broken missing so im going to DIY every other fin twice the size and display it. thinking that will be cool. IT IS NOT AN ANTIQUE/ REAL ONE IT"S MADE IN CHINA AND USES GEORGE NELSON'S NAME AS A BRAND. KNOCKING OFF THE ORIGNAL MCM DESIGNS

wish I found the howard miller ones!


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Those are from Wilkes Bashford--a high end retailer in California. Marshalls sometimes gets their stuff in.

On the way out the door, put together an outfit I liked and realized it could be a thrift fit, so here goes my first

 

 

 

 

Sweater: Margiela - Buffalo Exchange

Shirt: Gitman Vintage - Saks Off 5th

Chinos: RRL - Marshall's

Desert Boots - Aqua (?) - Discount

 

 

All for about $100 

I was born in Austria.

Your family history sounds as though you have quite the lineage. It wouldn't be a bad thing to be able to say that you have Charles Darwin in your family tree! I don't recall the laws exactly, but those that had to flee or were forced out of Germany (which included Austria at the time) were able to re-acquire citizenship. I'm not sure if that would extend to the living descendants of those people nor am I certain that you'd really want (or need) to take German citizenship, but I thought I'd mention it.

When it comes to citizenship in Austria, it's a very strict matter, one of the hardest nations in the EU. Austria does not allow dual citizenship for either naturalized Austrian citizens nor native-born Austrians to acquire it abroad. A couple of exemptions exist, such as receiving approval from the Austrian government by showing that it is in the best interest of Austria to maintain two citizenships, as in the case of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Another possibility is to be born into two citizenships, which is has only recently been allowed. Previously, unmarried women could not pass on Austrian citizenship. That was changed to allow both men and women, regardless of their marital status, to pass on Austrian citizenship. There are also laws that allow people to "buy" Austrian citizenship legally, or have it given to them as a gift. These are occasionally reported and it's usually someone influential that can help Austria win football matches or Nobel Prizes. Buying it is not an easy feat, as I understand, as it requires a number of obstacles including having piles of money to throw at the country.

While I'm thrilled that they work for you, I can't help but be a bit jealous! Kidding, enjoy!