benjclark
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Gentlemen,
As a young professional man who takes his job seriously, I've joined others my age of dressing deliberately, practically, and hopefully a little more stylishly for the first time. Finding better quality stuff while thrifting is great. However, thrifting for quality menswear where no one wears it in the first place is pretty much futile. In my town, I can name every man that wears a suit and tie to work on a regular basis, and it's not many. I think it's about a dozen in total.
But, this weekend, I got to go over to Great Falls, Montana for a speaking engagement and hit the thrifts there. I was excited to apply some of the things I've learned here at StyleForum and Put This On. Great Falls is a much larger town, has a larger "professional" class, including a big military presence (young men with a little extra money may drop some cash on nicer duds was my thinking). It's also just an older monied town, with a large Railroad corporate presence and historically lots of tourism. I was hoping to find some gems, but knew it'd be lots of bolo ties and grease stained wranglers. I thought I'd share the experience with you.
I found a Brioni-made Palm Beach California menswear place tagged sport coat. It was a crazy pink silk tweedish affair with unfortunate cataclysmic staining (left behind). Found some decent ties and also some things you'd likely only find in Montana thrift stores. Instead of just sharing the humdrum ties (to this forum's high standard), I thought I'd share the odd and cool. Sorry for the bad photos -- on my iphone. Enjoy:
Saddle at Goodwill. Nice, older example, decent regional maker. Price tag on the upper part of the stirrup visible -- $495.
Hudson's Bay coat. Worn hard. Cheap. Yuck.
Prized painted silk bull tie. "The Wonder Bull" seems like a pretty bold statement, although I've got to admit, that's not a bad looking bull.
Lastly, something actually spotted at an antique mall, but very cool. It's a travelling shoe salesman's case. Six identical suitcases appx. 18" x 42" inside of another *huge* shipping case. I didn't have a lot of time to get all the details but the $300 price tag on all seemed like a bargain. The rich brown patina on the inside cases were very nice, and the cell photo doesn't come close to the scale of these things.
As a young professional man who takes his job seriously, I've joined others my age of dressing deliberately, practically, and hopefully a little more stylishly for the first time. Finding better quality stuff while thrifting is great. However, thrifting for quality menswear where no one wears it in the first place is pretty much futile. In my town, I can name every man that wears a suit and tie to work on a regular basis, and it's not many. I think it's about a dozen in total.
But, this weekend, I got to go over to Great Falls, Montana for a speaking engagement and hit the thrifts there. I was excited to apply some of the things I've learned here at StyleForum and Put This On. Great Falls is a much larger town, has a larger "professional" class, including a big military presence (young men with a little extra money may drop some cash on nicer duds was my thinking). It's also just an older monied town, with a large Railroad corporate presence and historically lots of tourism. I was hoping to find some gems, but knew it'd be lots of bolo ties and grease stained wranglers. I thought I'd share the experience with you.
I found a Brioni-made Palm Beach California menswear place tagged sport coat. It was a crazy pink silk tweedish affair with unfortunate cataclysmic staining (left behind). Found some decent ties and also some things you'd likely only find in Montana thrift stores. Instead of just sharing the humdrum ties (to this forum's high standard), I thought I'd share the odd and cool. Sorry for the bad photos -- on my iphone. Enjoy:
Saddle at Goodwill. Nice, older example, decent regional maker. Price tag on the upper part of the stirrup visible -- $495.
Hudson's Bay coat. Worn hard. Cheap. Yuck.
Prized painted silk bull tie. "The Wonder Bull" seems like a pretty bold statement, although I've got to admit, that's not a bad looking bull.
Lastly, something actually spotted at an antique mall, but very cool. It's a travelling shoe salesman's case. Six identical suitcases appx. 18" x 42" inside of another *huge* shipping case. I didn't have a lot of time to get all the details but the $300 price tag on all seemed like a bargain. The rich brown patina on the inside cases were very nice, and the cell photo doesn't come close to the scale of these things.
