Thrifting

[jonATL]

So cheap I feel like I committed a felony:

[hauttedoggie]

Oh, and I found these two no-name Italian squares at Goodwill the other day (I never find pocket squares at GW).

very jealous, those pocket squares offer a lot of possibilities...congrats on the find

[Gman56]

I go once every couple of months. Recently bought a perfect condition Charles Tyrwhitt dress shirt for $2.50.
I found the same shirt on their website for $140
Their selection of dress shirts is usually pretty good.
The Goodwill I visit is a few miles from a neighborhood with multi million dollar homes.

[mhip]

Like new Burberry polo for I think $15 was probably my best score.

[Zeprez]

Hi

Recently bought a pair of Cordovan (!!) AE Grayson on eBay for $50.00 (!!!!) and an Alden for $60 .. The Alden are in near new shape... The AE from the pictures, look good.. New heel perhaps a recrafting ..

I think I am done for the next 2 decades... for shoes

[evanparker]

so as one of the dappered Thrifting thread stalwarts, i wanted to say that I am back at it again. Haven't found a single thing LOL but it will eventually happen.

I think the best I found was a set of UK Doctor Martens, Doctor Martens, Doctor Martens booots for my littler sister.

[SebastianBailey]

I go thrifting sometimes

[gclefstreetwear]

I do thrift from time to time. The only reason I do not is it consumes so much of my time I'm usually stuck. Haha! But seriously, there are lot of legit items that can be found while thrifting.

[evanparker]

These beautiful Shell Cordovan wingtips from the late 1970s were found at a local Savers store. I spent an hour polishing them for looking like they were covered in red mold to this kind of dull shine. I think they're going to need a lot more elbow grease but they will come back eventually.

They were made for "VAUGHN AT SATHERGATE". This is a defunct Menay store 3000 miles west of me, formerly in Berklee CA

[DocDave]

Wow. What an awesome find. I never think to look at the local second hand/shift shops for shoes. I might need to rethink that. Well done!

[evanparker]

funny enough i have not had any good thrift trips since that one day i found the shell shoes.

[mebejoseph]

These beautiful Shell Cordovan wingtips from the late 1970s were found at a local Savers store. I spent an hour polishing them for looking like they were covered in red mold to this kind of dull shine. I think they're going to need a lot more elbow grease but they will come back eventually.

They were made for "VAUGHN AT SATHERGATE". This is a defunct Menay store 3000 miles west of me, formerly in Berklee CA

Have you continued getting them in better shape? I have some vintage Florsheim shell shoes--Just to win the ebay auction was $250. Then the resoling. And now I am waiting to get them back from yet another restoration project (stripping and re-dying because after I stripped off 50 years of polish, the leather in the shoes didn't match).

I am into them for about what I would have paid for new Alden shell shoes. I don't think they were a good investment.

But from a thrift store like yours? SWEET!

[evanparker]

Have you continued getting them in better shape? I have some vintage Florsheim shell shoes--Just to win the ebay auction was $250. Then the resoling. And now I am waiting to get them back from yet another restoration project (stripping and re-dying because after I stripped off 50 years of polish, the leather in the shoes didn't match).

I am into them for about what I would have paid for new Alden shell shoes. I don't think they were a good investment.

But from a thrift store like yours? SWEET!

YOU KNOW it's funny, i haven't' done anything with them. i kind of already have wingtips like that anyway, and these don't even fit me

the little rolled edging piece on the back top of the heel is kind of messed up. I thought maybe i could replace it but I haven't really had luck sourcing it. I also haven't looked that hard LOL

i'm not exactly a shoe maker, maybe a shoe fiddler at best. I really don't think there is anything I can do. So they're just sitting on my shelf I guess.

Mostly theyre in good shape, besides a few little spots i guess. sorry I wish i had more better news than that LOL

[mebejoseph]

YOU KNOW it's funny, i haven't' done anything with them. i kind of already have wingtips like that anyway, and these don't even fit me

the little rolled edging piece on the back top of the heel is kind of messed up. I thought maybe i could replace it but I haven't really had luck sourcing it. I also haven't looked that hard LOL

i'm not exactly a shoe maker, maybe a shoe fiddler at best. I really don't think there is anything I can do. So they're just sitting on my shelf I guess.

Mostly theyre in good shape, besides a few little spots i guess. sorry I wish i had more better news than that LOL

Well, I got my shoes back from the patina guy today and I am impressed! They look better than I thought they could.

So, if you want to invest about $350-$400 more into those shoes, I can refer you to some cobblers who fix them up and a person who can do a great job restoring the finish. But I'm guessing that's not what you want to do.

[evanparker]

Since i bought my house an hour south of my old neighborhood in Brighton, right next to Boston Univeristy, i haven't been thrifting in any successful way almost at all. I have a couple stores in providence but they are always picked clean, since it seems like there is definitely demand for the thrift items from multiple sorts of classes of people in the city. i haven't found anything really remotely good in maybe 6 moths, when i saw those shell wingtips that i really don't need.

My old thrift spots, one of which actually closed anyways, and the other of which was the Goodwill store on Commonwealth Ave on the edge of Allston, i miss them so so much! lol...

If i could impress any suggestions of 'how to thrift' into this thread, gained from my nearly 25 years going to Goodwill and digging around it would be that LOCATION IS KING. when thrifting. You never find anything in the thrift stores in the poor neighborhoods, they are picked SO CLEAN that sometimes it's just not even worth going inside. Same with the rich neighborhoods, the thrift stores have a couple good items occaisonally but no one really goes to those stores, so they don't have alot of turn over. Item turn over is the thing that brings stuff in the door and it is absolutley crucial.The best stores are always always the ones right on the dge of a good neighborhood and on the edge of a bad one. These stores have lots of demand, therefore turnover,, and lots of supply.


The BU goodwill, next to a neighborhood of immigrants and poor 20 year old, and the BU rich rich people paying 50k a year plus to go there, the best one in the area.

My childhood Savers, right on the boston line in West roxbury, and right on the line of Dedham a relatively rich upper middle class kind of town, most of it. This savers is EPIC and a place where most of my best stuff was ever dog up.