The Official Thrift / Discount Store Bragging Thread Part III (Sept 2018-)

[kbadgley84]

All posts are bins
Marc Jacobs, Kate spade, longchamp

 

[kbadgley84]

Cool vintage stuff

 

[CWOyaji]

NWT JCrew corduroy sport coat in my size, and a pair of Ray-Ban polarized aviators, also for personal. And a box set of hardcover literature and some AE MIUSA belts in 44 and 46. Corduroy seems to be back in style.

 

[noob in 89]

Those look like some serious dollar store candies...

 

[ORLThrifter]

At least you had Pixie Stix. On a military budget with 3 siblings, we had some Chinese named "candy filled straws."

All we had were those strawberry hard candies and peppermints in a 1970's jar.

 

[kbadgley84]

 

[Nataku]

My daughter is the anti-VSCO. If it's "trendy," she wants nothing to do with it. For Christmas, she wanted a sewing machine so that she can make/repair her own clothing. I have a feeling that middle school will alter these behaviors.

This was definitely me. I think Jr high actually made it worse. I'd pick stuff that was so off the wall, nobody even had a clue what it was or why I had it. Then after about a year or three, people would start wearing the same stuff or doing the same thing. Once it became popular, I ditched it and found something else. 70's rock t-shirts, shaggy hair (when everyone had the short "spiked" hair), slim leg jeans when everyone had baggy jeans, etc. I got the old brow-line glasses a number of years ago. My wife hated them. I liked them. She said "you're going to be the only with with those and you'll look like 50's nerd. My reply was "Yes, and your point is..?". Now it seems like everyone has em..... -_-

Kinda bums be out because some of that stuff is now worth really money. Can't even remember what I did with the stuff, but a lot of it I wore into the ground.

 

[Flashbang]

rando bag but holy crap resale is solid
Any Euro guys ever seen these?
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not Euro but they’re all the rage in Shanghai.
cool story behind em too

 

[kbadgley84]

not Euro but they’re all the rage in Shanghai.
cool story behind em too

you’ve heard of it? Super cool stuff from the quick research i did, not too sure what the store behind it is tho

 

[kbadgley84]

Well that went quick, about 10 minutes. One of those “**** did I price it too low” moments but $5 into $150 I’ll take all day

 

[thriftpeace]

Well that went quick, about 10 minutes. One of those “**** did I price it too low” moments but $5 into $150 I’ll take all day

Maybe; it's one of those "they don't make 'em like they use to" themes. Goose down filled is becoming rarer these days. Part of it is due to avian flu in which the birds don't get the chance to grow old, which is where the best down comes from. In addition, there are adverse factors such as humane/sustainability treatment of the animals, feed cost and changing meat eating preferences of consumers. The best down is usually the older stuff. For example, what was rated 600 fill back in the day, is now probably rated 800.

There is more marketing stuff to try and hide the lower quality down in which manufacturers switch from goose to duck down or use hybrid synthetic fills. However, goose down bags are still the best and you will definitely pay a premium for it today. Marmot's most expensive sleeping bag comes in at $800+ and is all goose down.

 

[Button hole]

Part 1:

Never heard of this brand, but made in Italy with Japanese chambray and on Mr. Porter.
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NWT Barbour

I found a raincoat of theirs about two months back. I was impressed by it. It was a solid flip to boot and pretty fast <2weeks. putting Mr. Porter in the title seemed to help. I didn’t at first but when I added it the watch numbers went up fast.

 

[ATLjon]

Bad news guys, the Tom Ford shirt fits really well.

 

[the2ndhandman]

So, what does the candy have to do with the dance challenge? I watched the videos on tiki toki (or whatever the hell it is) and didn't see anyone with the candy.

I have no idea, I just saw on the news like three days ago. Just remember saying wth .

 

[Thrift Vader]

SEND IT BRUH

Just the usual "everyone is at VV so it's dead at GW"

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Is the Malcolm shirt from the era?