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

[ccpl14]

Question for the shoe thrifters: How do you all sanitize your thrifted footwear? I typically used Lysol spray and wiped the interiors before letting them sit for a day or two, but I'm wondering if there's a better option out there. Bowling alley shoe spray, perhaps?

Sterishoe. You can pick up used ones cheaply.

 

[sliq]

 

[bpk1]

Did not grab, even at $15 each:

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Did grab, at $7 each:

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Sold my last rep ekornes for $350-400 (granted it was tan leather instead, and took longer to move than I would have liked). Market isn’t as strong locally for them?

 

[Voidoid]

Found few really nice quality pants with this waistband and been wondering is this Brioni waistband ?
I know that a recent one have branded waistband, but still remember that old one was kinda like this without anything.

Also found this in my size

but then ... still couldn't leave for 8 euros

 

[eazye]

That is indeed the Brioni waistband.

 

[eddiegreen]

Live, another N Peal cashmere from the same shop

 

[heathenist]

1960s I’m guessing based on the label and Union tag. Also was lucky that the goodwill employee only charged me for a standard women’s coat price of $5.19.

Anyone know a good way to get sharpie off of labels? the goodwills around here have a lovely strategy of writing the price directly on the brand label for any products that they are charging more than the standard price for.

 

[Jackstraw001]

You take what the racks provide.

Thom Browne x Neiman Marcus x Target


1994 Super Bowl sweatshirt


70s/80s ringer tee


Lulu men’s short x5

 

[heathenist]

You take what the racks provide.

Thom Browne x Neiman Marcus x Target
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1994 Super Bowl sweatshirt
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70s/80s ringer tee
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Lulu men’s short x5
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You take what the racks provide.

Thom Browne x Neiman Marcus x Target
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Lol I remember when these came out.

 

[Jackstraw001]

Lol I remember when these came out.

I’m sure I paid less.

 

[Letric]

Anyone know a good way to get sharpie off of labels?

Rubbing Alcohol and cotton swab. The higher the proof the better, so like 90% Isopropyl. Be careful not to go too hard around colored areas of the label, as the alcohol can strip dyes and printings off.

 

[eazye]

Love it when hats come with an easy access drug pocket.

North Face base camp duffle

best $10 I’ve spent in awhile

 

[Sartoriamo]

Sold my last rep ekornes for $350-400 (granted it was tan leather instead, and took longer to move than I would have liked). Market isn’t as strong locally for them?

I have flipped a lot of Ekornes (since aside from a couple of Eames, all of the seating in my home is Ekornes), but there's a huge difference between genuine Ekornes and the various copies by Lane, Palliser and others. I get $850 quickly and up to $1250 slowly for a genuine Ekornes chair/ottoman set in good shape (upper end is usually for Paloma leather), but the other copies will fetch from $150-350 at best. Fjords Hjellegjerde is another excellent Scandinavian brand kinda-sorta on a par with Ekornes but cheaper by a third. I've seen only one of those around these parts, though.

@Letric I would most likely (albeit with gritted teeth) have left that pair also, just because of the "Deal-With Factor". Head grease will often come out with Lexol, but there's too much damage to the leather in too many places, and at least one of the armrests needs reupholstered. So yeah, even at that low entry cost, just too much work needs to be done. Infuriatingly, you can tell that whoever owned these simply didn't GAF about them. The fact that the leather is cracked tells me it was NEVER properly cleaned and conditioned. Genuine Ekornes will last for decades if properly cared for. A couple of times a year is all it takes, even here in arid AZ, where leather dessicates in a blink.

 

[Conclusive]

From Salvation Army's $2.99 all clothing sale yesterday. Almost all the shirts (excluding the Helmut Lang and Agnis B.) are 16 41, so I think someone donated them all in bulk. What isn't pictured here are the Brioni double-breasted suit, Brioni pants, Luciano Barbera Pants, and two pairs of Canali pants I found that were absolutely destroyed from what I assumed was the same donator. I've seen mothholes before, but some of these pants has massive tears running down their legs or had their waistbands unstitched and ruined. Shocked they were in that condition. Some of these shirts have some yellowing/stains, which I hope to resolve with a soak.

And two extra bits from another Salvation Army, same day.

 

[Sartoriamo]

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1960s I’m guessing based on the label and Union tag. Also was lucky that the goodwill employee only charged me for a standard women’s coat price of $5.19.

Anyone know a good way to get sharpie off of labels? the goodwills around here have a lovely strategy of writing the price directly on the brand label for any products that they are charging more than the standard price for.

Yeah, annoying that. I usually try citrus terpenes first (bathroom deodorizing spray made only with citrus), as different marker pen types may require different solvent. The challenge is often spreading the mark into a bigger, more diffuse blob. For one like that, I'll give it a quick hit with solvents, but if it isn't coming out quickly enough I'll just hit it with a black sharpie until the numbers are illegible. Works fine with a vintage coat where marks are not unusual.

Pro tip for your more expensive items: dry cleaning solvents will often take that stuff right out, particularly the red markers that places like Neiman's/Nordie's use to show an item is on clearance. Back in the days 20 years ago when margins were a lot better, I would routinely dry clean items like that just to see if it would take out the marks (it usually did), but it doesn't pencil out in our current skinny margin times . . .