Rediscovering pieces

[LA Guy]

I was looking, in vain, for my lovely snap sterling silver cufflinks today, in anticipation of my brother's wedding. Nowhere to be found - typical. Hoiwever, I did not come up completely unsuccessful. I somehow managed to dig up an old Kenneth Cole ripstop shirt jacket in a remarkable super dark, moss green color with antiqued brass buttons (don't laugh - I was surprised at this find too), and a segmented Varvatos belt from the first season (when the leather goods were amazing.) Did a quick change.

Do any of you guys with large a wardrobes (ahem - Socal2NYC, Rye GB, and GetSmart, in particular) occasionally rediscover something? Examples?

 

[Get Smart]

Originally Posted by LA Guy

Do any of you guys with large a wardrobes (ahem - Socal2NYC, Rye GB, and GetSmart, in particular) occasionally rediscover something? Examples?

I do. I had a bag full of wool checked trousers that I havent worn in a year or two that I brought out to wear again...a bunch of checked and plaid patterns from Dolce & Gabbana, J Lindeberg, a pair of Paul Smiths I havent worn in a while etc.

Every so often I'll peep into some vintage 50s samsonite luggage I have that I use to store gear that I'm tired of and wont be wearing anytime soon....then a year later it's fresh again and it goes back into rotation

 

[constant struggle]

I sell everything I don't wear(which is probably because it doesn't fit how i like) so I don't have the chance to rediscover :[

 

[LA Guy]

Originally Posted by Get Smart

... it's fresh again and it goes back into rotation

Exactly. I never get how some guys can wear the same clothes over and over again. Even after a weeklong trip, I am typically sick of the clothes I brought, and they go into hiding for a couple of weeks before coming back out again - even if they were my favorite pieces. Same goes with shoes and accessories.

 

[Get Smart]

I have a pretty short attention span as well, which is why I tend to have my wearable gear in "blocks" where I'll pull 5-10 shirts and wear those all the time for a couple months, then get tired and pull out another "block" of 10 shirts, etc etc. same with jeans and shoes too.

 

[Rye GB]

I haven't made many purchases this year and the side effect has been searching through the darkest corners of my wardrobe. Examples of recent finds:

Dries Van Noten Military/Safari shirt circa 2001. Daniel Craig wears this exact shirt in "Tomb Raider".
Miu Miu s/s mini floral print shirt in Burgundy circa 2001.
Pink Corduroys Marc Jacobs circa 2000.
Rogan Cut #1 circa 2003.

 

[Fuuma]

Starting wearing a super tight Prada dress shirt with a tiny pattern of gladiators (hard to see without looking closely). Not that hold but still something like 2004.

 

[sho'nuff]

usually when i rediscover items, the clothing motif, style, color, or trend may have returned or can be worn,
but there is something in its cut, fabric, size that is off thus that needs to be updated for the current time. so usually, those items that i initially think i can rework into the wardrobe, do not.

 

[LA Guy]

Originally Posted by shoe

usually when i rediscover items, the clothing motif, style, color, or trend may have returned or can be worn,
but there is something in its cut, fabric, size that is off thus that needs to be updated for the current time. so usually, those items that i initially think i can rework into the wardrobe, do not.

Ironically, I find that this is more true of "timeless" clothing, than easily identified, designer clothing from a particular season. With suits and shirts, like you said, there are slight, but notieciable differences in cut and materials. The gorge height, button stance, skirt length, etc... all make a jacket dated very easily. On the other hand, a Jil Sander moleskin shirt jacket, while easily identifiable as from the FW98 collection, looks just as fresh as it did 10 years ago. And my Varvatos segmented belt from FW2000 looks better than it used to - because of the quality, age wore well on the leather. And this military shirt I'm wearing? Looks better because it just looks that much different from other, similar shirts out there from this season.

Of course, this is only true of the easily identifiable designer pieces that actually have some design merits, as opposed to pieces that were soulless and lame from the very minute they stepped onto the runway, which is about 90% of what I've seen of SS09.

 

[sho'nuff]

true. i do agree with you.

 

[robbie]

I have a relatively tiny wardrobe, but even I find myself forgetting about things. It was an even bigger problem when I was away at boarding schoo and collegel. I'd bring laundry home and forget it at home and be without it a whole term before I even missed it.

I think anyone who enjoys clothing goes through periods where certain pieces really speak to them;and then when nothing speaks to them they buy new stuff, and then a hybrid of these periods speak to them, and so on and so forth causing a relatively small wardrobe to get exponentially larger.

I hate when you find something you really loved a few years back that has absolutely no place in your wardrobe.

 

[SoCal2NYC]

Hmmm...
Now living in NYC where I pack away winter in the summer and summer in the winter I will now and then forget that I have something. So it's always fun to unpack and be suprised. This summer it was my black/navy seersucker Giorgio Armani pants.

 

[FiveFiveFive]

How old are you guys? If I dig something up that's been stashed away for a few years, it's from college, meaning it's Lucky Brand jeans, Structure and Abercrombie. Armani, Marc Jacobs and DG were the kind of brands I'd see in fashion magazines back then and wonder how the hell people afforded that kind of stuff.

Rye, will that Dries shirt make a WAYWT appearance any time soon? Curious to see it.

 

[jet]

I have so much good stuff I often don't even realize it.

I also don't get bored of any of my things like fok does I guess because they're so interesting and the quality is superlative every time I pull things out to wear it's like "damn this is some heat!"

 

[LA Guy]

Originally Posted by jet

I also don't get bored of any of my things like fok does I guess because I return most of it to South Willard.

Fixed.