Manning Leonard Krull ([info]manningkrull) wrote,
@ 2008-03-12 15:08:00
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Entry tags:fashion, glam, new jersey, self-portrait, vanity

Nouveau Jersey et Vous : Parfait Ensemble
What's your best thrift store find of all time? Mine is a tie with little New Jerseys on it. I bought it for a dollar — which, honestly, is a complete rip-off for a tie with little New Jerseys on it — at Village Thrift in Pennsauken, NJ, about ten years ago. You can imagine my delight! Years later, the tie got packed away at my mom's house when I first moved to France in March of 2005, and I forgot all about it. Then, last time I was in town I was rooting around for something in my boxes in Mom's garage (my giant earrings, if you must know) and happened upon the tie, and decided to bring it back to Paris with me.







... And while we're at it, new(-ish) shoes.


Pay no mind to the pink stripes on my socks. I'd... I'd hoped you wouldn't have to see that.

I'm committing the cardinal sin here of wearing black with (three slightly different shades of) blue. You'll note however that I look awesome anyway. Like I always say with regard to fashion, I (or you!) can make anything work. Or, all things are possible with Christ, take your pick.

Some interesting stuff in the background of the first photo, now that I look at it: On the wall on the left that's a Venetian carnival mask made by Aaron Cromie as a thank-you for the website I designed for him, and over on the right you can halfway see [info]lord_whimsy's book, The Affected Provincial's Companion, Volume One, which was a gift from [info]abinka. And I think you've seen all the rest of this junk in my original post about my pink bedroom. As is dictated by my somewhat vagabond-esque lifestyle, I try not to accumulate a lot of non-clothing possessions, but beautiful and interesting things keep finding their way into my life, and I'm not going to argue with that.

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[info]petit_chou
2008-03-12 02:18 pm UTC (link)
Those shoes are clearly made with pure magic.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 02:36 pm UTC (link)
The kind of magic wielded by the tiny hands of Asian kids in sweatshops, no doubt.

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[info]lord_whimsy
2008-03-12 02:25 pm UTC (link)
Good on ya, lad! The element crucial to being a modern man about town is grooviness, and you have it in spades (I can only manage louche, so I remain in exile out in the provinces).

Been by Village Thrift, but my old reliable was the Red White and Blue up on Rt 33 near Trenton.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 02:39 pm UTC (link)
Hey, thanks! Yeah, there was some really outstanding shopping to be had at Village Thrift back when I was in highschool, but it's gotten much less interesting and much more expensive over the years. I'm not familiar with Red White and Blue, as I don't get up near Trenton (Makes, the World Takes) too often, but I'll try to find it next time I'm in the Americas.

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[info]shelly26
2008-03-12 02:32 pm UTC (link)
New Jersey and You - Perfect Together!

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 02:35 pm UTC (link)
Ha! I just stole this comment and re-titled my post.

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Il faut cultiver votre jardin (état)
[info]abinka
2008-03-12 02:57 pm UTC (link)
That tie is so boss because it looks like lightning bolts from far away. Come up close and learn the horribl(y awesome) truth.

PS how's my subject for the most convulted French-New Jersey pun ever?

I wish you were in the States right now I need a bad influence to come shopping with me. Or better yet I wish I was in Paris to spend all my money on clothes. I'm getting rid of a ton of older stuff and starting anew.

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Re: Il faut cultiver votre jardin (état)
[info]abinka
2008-03-12 03:01 pm UTC (link)
Oh I did start with this dress though. I'm wearing a cardigan over the top because it was cold but it's an idea of what I'll be going for:

mebooyellow3.jpg

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Re: Il faut cultiver votre jardin (état)
[info]beangrower
2008-03-12 07:34 pm UTC (link)
lovely skirt. are you getting ready to frog-jump over that cat?

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Re: Il faut cultiver votre jardin (état)
[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 03:28 pm UTC (link)
I've been trying very, very hard to not do any shopping for a little while. I've been seriously overdoing it for -- hmm, I was gonna say a few months, but basically ten or fifteen years.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-03-12 03:06 pm UTC (link)
Kate's and my thrift store finds are of the "horrifying tchotchke" variety.

Kate found what appears to be a painted plaster Santa Claus holding up a huge book, with a fox and a bear at his feet and a rabbit in a coat and hat on his arm. Upon closer examination, we realized that it was an Uncle Remus statue painted up like a white Santa Claus.

As for me, I just found a set of three monkeys in vests and fezzes, doing that "See No Evil ... etc" thing, once covering his eyes, one covering his mouth and the other covering his ears. I put them in the master bathroom at our new place, so it looks like they're (respectively) shielding their eyes against the sight of me going to the bathroom, trying to block out the smell of it, and covering their ears against the sound of farts. CLASS - Y!

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 03:12 pm UTC (link)
Ça farte?

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[info]calamityjon
2008-03-12 03:17 pm UTC (link)
La vie sur la butte!

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[info]corrigami
2008-03-12 03:16 pm UTC (link)
Wow, I love that tie. I def have to get something like that for Ben (I doubt I can find the exact same tie--that's a once in a lifetime thing).

As for the shades, I have to say, a pair of mirrored sunglasses seems more your thing. Or is that too much?

Is there such a thing as too much?

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 03:30 pm UTC (link)
If Ben and I lived in the same country I would totally share this tie with him; I think he deserves to rock it as much as I do, probably more. Maybe we should mail it back and forth every week. And then it would inevitably get lost in the mail and I would resent Ben forever. And then Tom Hanks would find it on an island and use it to hang himself.

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[info]schtune
2008-03-12 04:35 pm UTC (link)
Uh, spoiler alert.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 10:36 pm UTC (link)
In my version, the volleyball would be named Vinnie and Hanks would be using the iceskate to break open pizza boxes.

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[info]roninspoon
2008-03-12 03:34 pm UTC (link)
At first I thought that was a school tie with school crests on it. Finding out that they're little New Jerseys somehow makes it more AND less cool all at the same time.

I found This suit coat at Good Will a bunch of years ago, and for the longest time it was my only fancy dress jacket. Now that I've thought about it for the first time in years, I have no idea where that jacket is anymore. It was a steal at $5.

That's not the Greatest Thrift Store Find though. What you can't see in that photo is the boots I'm wearing. Sadly I have no photos of these awesome boots. That needs to be remedied. They're black suede cowboy boots with elaborate Mexican silver work on the toes. They are awesome, and I don't wear them enough anymore. I paid $15 for them.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Those boots sound fucking fantastic.

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[info]alexmack
2008-03-12 03:41 pm UTC (link)
well u dont know me but my best thrift store find was a pair of red camper ballet flats i found for $20 in downtown denver

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 07:22 pm UTC (link)
Excellent. Everybody should have at least one pair of red shoes. I just decided that right now.

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[info]beangrower
2008-03-12 04:16 pm UTC (link)
Best thrift shop find? Early 60's British 3-speed bike, for $10 at the Whosoever Gospel Mission in Germantown.

Best clothing find? Hand knit 40's-era women's suit found at Village Thrift in Germantown, probably around $5. Of course, we are talking late 80's- early 90's thrifting.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 07:23 pm UTC (link)
Of course, we are talking late 80's- early 90's thrifting.

Believe me, I know exactly what you mean. There's not much I allow myself to be nostalgic for, but that's one of those things.

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[info]blackwell
2008-03-12 05:08 pm UTC (link)
That is the sexy!

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 07:23 pm UTC (link)
This is the thank you!

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[info]ckershenblatt
2008-03-12 06:16 pm UTC (link)
Best find was at the old Army & Navy store in Atlantic City, a few years before they went out of business. The year: 1983. The stuff: piles & piles of unsold, original, early 70s psychedelic LEE hip-hugging, wildly flared jeans, cords. It was as if the store had decided back in 1973 to Really Stock Up on this stuff; only to find that by 1975, it was WAY past its prime. My friend Jim & I loaded up on some of the weirdest pants I've ever seen (they were selling them for 2 bucks a pair); color combinations, swirls, patterns, that perhaps only someone on peyote might understand. And then, we proudly went around campus for months wearing flares, hip-huggers - in 1983 - and people looked at us like we'd just escaped from a mental institution. It wasn't so much that we LIKED the look - rather, we just enjoyed the reaction. And we loved the fact that this stuff was original - it was as if Corporate Jean America had gone temporarily insnane.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 07:25 pm UTC (link)
I'm on a never-ending quest for ridiculous pants, and that sounds like a dream come true. I've definitely worn stuff from time to time just because it was so insane and I wasn't really sure I even liked it. It's really a different kind of fun. Not for the feint of heart.

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[info]ckershenblatt
2008-03-12 07:47 pm UTC (link)
I wish I could find some photos - there was one pair that (one that Jim wore) that seemed to swirl avocado green and sienna brown, like some Mod Trip gone bad! The colors, patterns were so sick - it went so beyond good taste - that it was, of course, way cool. I wonder if he still has 'em ... OK, now I'm on a quest. Keep ya updated.

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[info]lord_whimsy
2008-03-12 10:20 pm UTC (link)
I was in that store. My friend found a pair of striped skintight flares, a la Doctor and the Medics/Crispin Glover/Redd Kross. Great place.

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your mojo is working.
[info]maria_sputnik
2008-03-12 07:15 pm UTC (link)
dude, that top picture! holy shit!

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Re: your mojo is working.
[info]manningkrull
2008-03-12 07:21 pm UTC (link)
This trick requires my full concentration, or I turn back into a monkey.

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[info]a1icey
2008-03-13 12:20 am UTC (link)
i think its supposed to be the height of fashion at the moment to be able to wear navy and black (or other seemingly offensive things) and get away with it. i mean, cory kennedy, for example.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-13 02:54 am UTC (link)
This is encouraging. I've made a career (wait, that would imply I get paid) out of wearing the wrong things at the wrong times in the wrong combinations.

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[info]copper_iris
2008-03-13 02:30 am UTC (link)
Hehe, I like the socks. i like wearing my black and white striped socks under stuff :-)

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-13 02:56 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I typically like wearing funny socks as an inside-joke with myself. I wasn't planning on showing them to the internet today.

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[info]copper_iris
2008-03-13 07:48 pm UTC (link)
That's awesome. Keep showing them! :-)

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[info]kiwikat
2008-03-13 02:38 am UTC (link)
gah! too fabulous for words! i stole that first photo and i might have to paint it. if you'd stop being all visually appealing i wouldn't! let this be a lesson to you!

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[info]manningkrull
2008-03-13 02:55 am UTC (link)
Haha, be my guest.

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Congratulations
[info]jordanlawman83
2008-03-13 02:50 am UTC (link)
Your tie is of the appropriate legnth.

I bow in respect!

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Re: Congratulations
[info]manningkrull
2008-03-13 02:54 am UTC (link)
Why is it that retro ties are shorter? I don't even have to make the ends even on this one.

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[info]fashionista17
2008-03-13 04:44 am UTC (link)
Love it! Event though you've broken 2 of my cardinal rules: black socks must be worn with black shoes and black pants, and mixing blue with black, somehow, it's still awesome.

My best thrift store finds are a red patent and white leather purse from the 60's that matches my red and white sailor dress I found in my Crazy Aunt Helen's house (which is almost a thrift store), my "rich lady" fur collar, and a tiny 50's velvet clutch that has wire embroidery on it. The thing is truly amazing.

Maybe I'll do a post of me wearing all of it at once... No, two purses would look downright odd.

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[info]zantimisfit
2008-03-13 01:20 pm UTC (link)
Wearing black with blue?? That's nothing. I've worn black with brown!

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well done
(Anonymous)
2008-04-05 10:26 pm UTC (link)
thank you, brother

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