Feeling overwhelmed and underwhelmed by the choice of fashion items at the same time
Is anyone in the same position as me? I feel a bit overwhelmed by the amount of brands/options for clothes but as soon as I start looking for something more specific all these options seem to vanish. How do you all go about finding items you like. A related issue is that I kinda don't know how to shop esp. in regards to looking for vintage/used pieces and sales. What are your strategies there?
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I go to stockist websites that have very good curation and look through for stuff I like then search the brands on eBay/yjp etc
Or I go to thrift stores
I know what you mean though, there’s a trillion pieces of clothing but when i want to find something I actually like enough to buy it’s hard
I look at what I have, and see what I might get working with it. Also browsing thrift stores
Also bricking a lot of fits
Good idea. I feel like another problem that I have specifically is that I consume mostly Englisch content but I don't live in the UK or the US so a lot of stuff doesn't translate. But that is a seperate issue
My current thing that is proving hard to find are brown derbies I like
Worth looking through Alden and seeing if you like theirs
Then you can just use the model number on aldenmodelproject and find all the eBay listings
I got mine from the uk and shipping wasn’t egregious
Good idea. Biggest hurdle for used shoes might be my shoe size
Might have phrased the derby thing wrong as well. I was able to find shoes I liked but they were all about 500 and I wanted to spend about halve
Yeah used is great for that but it can be hard to find your size if you’re outside the normal range
I think in US shoe sizes I'm a 13
Btw. my current strategy for buying is mostly going item by item. But I feel like I should expand where I'm looking next. Thrifting is cool and I have like 1 good store in my city some of the others kinda suck though. It's probably just that I haven't been shopping well for long enough
Just checked on ebay and a few other sites for shoes my size and all did not have a single model. I feel like vintage for shoes might not work out for me
How did you search on ebay? I just searched Alden for results worldwide and there are over 100 results limiting for us size 13 (check Alden sizing guides BTW probably) and at least a handful were derbies. "Alden derby" bought up 15 results, though imo sometimes its better to sift so as to not miss some mislabeled stuff.
a real one for this 🙇♂️
I limited my search to Europe maybe I should search wider
Hm, admittedly I don't know what popular services might be in europe. There may be better results on europe-oriented services if there are any but then I'm sure that may result in shoe size range limits in and of itself, ha. I just know ebay here in Aus is practically dead for a lot of brands so it's better to show by who can ship here.
It would be better if you could search wider of course but I assume the europe thing might make that a bit more difficult or costly 😅
Not sure about used stuff but generaly speaking for clothes I would have to add about 30% on top for customs and vat