99.2% off.

Last week. Thrifted: Shirt: Vtg. Levi’s $5 T-Shirt: Rogues Gallery $Free (Clothing Swap) Jeans: Modern Levis $Free (Gift) Belt: Ben Sherman $10 Boots: Eastland Made in ME $15 (Thrift Gift)
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Last week.

Thrifted:

Shirt: Vtg. Levi’s $5

T-Shirt: Rogues Gallery $Free (Clothing Swap)

Jeans: Modern Levis $Free (Gift)

Belt: Ben Sherman $10

Boots: Eastland Made in ME $15 (Thrift Gift)

AFistfulOfVintage

So Etsy listings expire after 4 months.  Here’s some pretty spectacular stuff that didn’t sell during the winter, 20% off my already eminently reasonable prices.

I know you were just waiting for that ridiculously awesome Johnny Carson 2 piece vest/sport coat set to come down a bit.

Regular blogging will (I promise*) come back next week.

AFoS

*Ed Note: I may be lying, we’ll see how it goes.

Some really really great stuff at my online shop A Fistful of Vintage.  All these items are slightly on the other side of my 37/38 measurements, so if you’re a 38-40 you have an opportunity for some truly spectacular stuff.

April 29th

Too early for patchwork madras pants?

In honor of the spring that never was/still hasn’t really been, here are some vintage Liberty of London floral ties 2 silk, 4 cotton.

It was kind of cold and windy, but IT HAS TO BE SPRING GODDAMMIT! —————————————————— Thrifted: Sport Coat: Paul Stuart $5 Shirt: LLBean $5 Tie: Polo $3 Pants: Marc Jacobs $4 Shoes: Bass $7 Pocket Square: Vtg. Liberty of London $10
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It was kind of cold and windy, but IT HAS TO BE SPRING GODDAMMIT!

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Thrifted:

Sport Coat: Paul Stuart $5

Shirt: LLBean $5

Tie: Polo $3

Pants: Marc Jacobs $4

Shoes: Bass $7

Pocket Square: Vtg. Liberty of London $10

Spring into Summer at A Fistful of Vintage.

From top:

Hermes

Lands End

Brooks Brothers

Turnbull & Asser

J. Press

Penney’s

Levine’s

Birthday Look!

Spring palette, winter weather.

And thanks for all the well wishes, I had work today, but there are plans for an Eccentric Billionaire party on Saturday.  I’m not going to lie, my birthday takes a week and I go pretty, pritty, prrrrriiiiiitttttyyyyyy hard.

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Thrifted:

Jacket: No tags $2.50

Shirt: JCrew $9.60

Tie: Vtg. Burberry’s $2

Chinos: B Republic $10

Shoes: Vtg. Sebago $7-8

Pocket Square: No tags scarf $2

Casual Easter. (Also Preppy Easter)  —————————————— Thrifted: Jacket: Calvin Klein (Gift) Sweater: J Crew $7 Shirt: Van Heusen (Gift*) Chinos: B Republic $5 Loafers: Vtg. Dexter $8 [Apparently also mass market Easter.] *Someone must not like me very much (#menswearzing)
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Casual Easter. (Also Preppy Easter) 

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Thrifted:

Jacket: Calvin Klein (Gift)

Sweater: J Crew $7

Shirt: Van Heusen (Gift*)

Chinos: B Republic $5

Loafers: Vtg. Dexter $8

[Apparently also mass market Easter.]

*Someone must not like me very much (#menswearzing)

I was kind of going for jaunty.  This look jaunty to you guys? I mean, it’s finally nice enough to go outside so I figured jaunty would be the appropriate jam (ed note: jaunt?)

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Thrifted:

Jacket: Vtg. Sterns $5

Shirt: Polo $5

Tie: Vtg. Jordan Marsh $2

Shoes: Mezlan $8

Just a friendly reminder that spring summer items are beginning to file into A Fistful of Vintage.  Some highlights?

Ties by Hermes, Sulka and Turnbull & Asser

Sport Coats in all manner of plaid (many more madras items to come as the weather warms up, if you’re thinking madras for this summer think AFoV.)

Suits rendered casually and lightweight for the summer months.  Keep an eye out for some vintage Brooks Bros summerweight items to come in soon.

Also, I’ll be running a spring cleaning sale sometime in the next few weeks.  No coupon code bullshit, just good old fashioned price cuts.  I’ll announce it here, so keep your eyes peeled.

Best,

Alex (AFoS/AFoV)

I really like this purple tweed, and it strikes me a absolutely perfect for spring, but I haven’t quite figured out how to style it in the “right” way.  Maybe it’s just that the dog won’t leave me alone for 5 minutes so I can take pictures of myself (#firstdogblogproblems).

Also, if you match your woven belt to your woven strap loafers is that an easter egg or do I need to wait until next week?  (LOL PUNS!)

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Thrifted:

Sport Coat: Cesarani $10

Shirt: Jordan Marsh “A Fitted Shirt” $2.50

Tie: Brown Watch (yes, this is a thing) $2

Pocket Square: Ashear (Made in Italy) $2

Jeans: Calvin Klein $3.50

Loafers: Vtg. Dexter $7-8

Belt: $2 (Made in USA)

Peacoat: Zero King $5

Spring.

Not yet, but soon!

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Thrifted:

Sport Coat: Harris Tweed by Cesarani $10

Shirt: Polo $5

Pants: Levis 511 $12

Shoes: Mezlan $8

Pocket Square: Vtg. Liberty of London $10

Hat: B. Republic $2

Gloves: Vtg. LLBean Deerskin $3

Different as night and day.

Many of you know that my style is a far cry from “sleek”.  I’m generally into bright colors, aggressive pattern mixing, and your basic “lack of good taste” type looks.  But what you may not know is that I’m a fan of going out, and when I go out at night, even to the undiscerning bars of Portland ME, I like to look the part.

So that involves just a smidge of sleekness.  In this case I swap brown for black, color for grayscale, overcoat for boss sauce fur collared pea coat.

Two looks different as night and day.

But really fairly similar.