Re: UFO's clothes

Colette Chooey (olivia88@netwizards.net)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:08:53 -0700


im in san francisco and ive seen japanese clothes buyers buy over $700
worth of club clothes at used clothing stores all the time!!!! i wonder
what they can get for a used pair of nylon jogging pants (US$11) and a
babytee with speed racer on it (US$4) in japan?

colette

At 10:36 AM 7/29/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Elson Trinidad wrote:
>
>> I wanna know where UFO buys their clothes; they dress kinda sharp!
>
>I don't know what it's like out in the Wild West, but here in the big
>middle (Pittsburgh & Cleveland) we see Japanese clothes brokers all the
>time. Seriously, vintage clothing and rare groove records disappear into
>the trunks of these Japanese buyers who scour this turf and send it
>overseas. I'm a serious collector of 1950's and early '60's clothes and
>have hit stores just as one of these cats are heading out. Visa platinum
>buying power and a 300% mark-up waiting for them on the other side....
>they are ruthless in the way they clean a place out.
>
>One of my favorite merchants told me over the weekend that the hot
>numbers for men now are 1930's & '40's work wear. To be eligible for
>consderation, all shoes have to be 6 1/2 - 9 (no exceptions).
>
>A bit of lifestyle ephemera for the list today.
>
>laterjme
>
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