 Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. All right, you guys, we are gonna learn about vintage clothing today, and I have special guest Clara with me, and she is gonna introduce herself, and then we're gonna get into some clothing Bolo's. Hi, Courtney, and thank you, Bolo Buddies, to have me here. I'm so excited to talk about vintage, like Courtney said, is my name is Clara, and I'm the owner and founder of The Clothing Vault, which is my business that I use to grow my vintage businesses organically on eBay, my website, Etsy, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook pages, and thanks to The Clothing Vault, I was also able to fund my other business myself, Clothe Lease Perfectly, which is the business I had to create because of many sales that I had at The Clothing Vault, because at that time we were called Lease Clothing, Courtney. That is crazy, I did not know that, and everybody that watches me knows that I talk about Lease Perfectly all the time. Love it, it has been one of the best things I've done for my business. So I thank you guys so much for coming up with such an awesome service. So I wanted to kind of incorporate you as a reseller, and you are an expert pretty much, compared to me, an expert on vintage clothing. So I thought we would share your Bolo's because that's what we do on my channel. And I'm just gonna let you screen share some of your Bolo items. How does that sound? Oh, I love it, Courtney. I can't wait to share these in my website, The Clothing Vault, and I have also the eBay's account, Steel, we have it. We have the Posh, Mark, Mark, all over the account. So I can't wait to share these from my website, The Clothing Vault. Awesome, okay. If you want to go ahead and pull up the first item, I will pop up the screen share. All right, let's go with the best of the best. We're gonna start with the best, Courtney, okay? Let's share. This is something that we find on state sales that are on affluent or expensive neighborhoods. And this was a particular, this one, this coat, this Baikuna, coat was found in Beverly Hills. And Baikuna is like an animal that is kind of like a llama. And that grows on very, very, very limited places of the world, like Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. And it cannot be on captivity because it stresses out and doesn't give you wool. That's why they call these the Royal fabric, okay? And it's very, very expensive. And it sold for almost $5,500. Oh my goodness. One of them, the other ones, the one that the highest price was $8,000 on eBay. Wow. Now, do you remember what you paid for it? Yes. This one, they won on eBay, we paid $100. And this one, in particular, we paid $60. Oh my goodness. That is definitely amazing. But I wanna show. Yeah. And I wanna show you one. Wow. Look at this. Look at why I paid more than usual because it was dead stock. You see that? And it came with the extra fabric, not a single hole. So this was what made me pay the extra money. There is no ring around the collar. There is no stains. You see, look at the cuffs. There is no sign of wear, pristine. Look at, this is when you buy high-end cashmere or you buy vintage, let's say, by Kuna. Make sure that these edges are in pristine condition. If this is worn out, that's gonna decrease the value, 30% of the product you're trying to sell. And you said you paid 60? That's right. Oh my goodness. Wow. I just can't get over that. That is definitely a bolo. I paid this one, I sold it only for $5,500 because if you pay attention, I put size 40, okay? But the problem that I have with this one is that it was a short measurement. It was like in that way we were providing the additional fabric, so whoever acquired it could enlarge it. Gotcha. All right. Awesome. All right. Let's go to the next one. Let's go, okay, let's go. This is another one of my favorites, okay? Shot, perfecto in this case is a style, but Shot is the brand. Now it's called Shot NYC. Shot was, oh my God, I can't remember when was it founded and I have the book, okay? But needless to say, okay, very early 1900s, I believe, okay? Wow. It's a brand that is a tradition for bikers and even early police officers. Never heard of that brand. But again, I don't do vintage clothing, so this is gonna help so many people that watch the channel because definitely getting educated here. Can we see the bag? See, absolutely. Can you see it there? Yep, yep, okay, awesome. Perfect there, I wanna do it like this. And that's sold for 849.95, wow. And please keep in mind that I sold it in my website because if I sell in marketplaces, I double or triple the prices. This is just because I was building my website. Look at that, it's a genuine steer height. So you have horse height, steer height. You have so many different kinds of leather. When it comes to leather that was used by Shot Perfecto because they use very high quality leather. So if you fall, okay, that jacket will protect you. Okay, so you're saying you sold it for less than, if somebody found this, they could sell it for more than that. Is that what you mean? It's only $2,000, especially in the condition that I had it. Let me show you this. Wow, look at this. Do you see the condition? Very easy. Barely, barely used, look at the cuffs. That's what, vintage is all about condition, okay? And zipper, make sure this part of the zipper is not damaged. If you have any damage there, if seams are loose here and here, you know that that jacket is gonna be a third, worse a third, condition is everything on vintage. Now, do you remember where you got that or what you paid for that? So that is in the Los Angeles Rose Bowl flea market. That is that once a month. Okay, awesome. The key is to arrive at 4 a.m. If you're arriving to the- Woo, 4 a.m. Yup, you gotta get out of home at 2, okay? Wake up at 2, make sure you're out at 3. It takes one hour to get from Long Beach to Los Angeles at that time, there is no traffic, okay? LA is horrible traffic. And you gotta be there by 4 a.m. And then you have your flashlights and just start- Wow. And you just chit-chat, you know, you chit-chat with the sellers, okay? How are you? Do you remember what you paid for it? This one I paid for leather jackets like this on pristine condition. I always paid 40. And if they are in, if they are distressed with a worn off patina, I would pay 10. And if the zipper and a cuffs were not torn or distressed, I would pay 20. Wow. But ideal in bulk, that was my thing. I don't go to sellers and bother them with their best peak and just try to negotiate on that. I grab a bunch of items, you know, something that is good for them and good for me. So every time they see me, they have already a little pile for me. A pile for you? Yes! Because they know... Yeah, they know that I... That's my favorite thing to do is bundle and buy in bulk. Yeah. Oh, let me show you one more thing. When it comes to shot jackets, you can see it's a talon zipper. Very important, okay, that you see which zippers. Because mostly shot, I can't remember if shot use any other brand on the early editions. At the top of my head, honestly, I can't remember. It could be possible. I do have the shot encyclopedia book, but it's very important zippers. That talon zipper, it's crucial when you're buying vintage. Okay. Talon, T-A-L-O-N, okay. Yep, yep, yep, yep, that's right. They didn't know. Okay, can I show you the next one? Yeah. Okay, look at this. Oh my God, this is... Wow. Wait, wait, wait, let me show you the Chevrons. Look at that. Wow. So this jacket is vintage 60 Philadelphia police, horse hide, like I said, horse hide is much better quality, okay, sometimes, and steer high the other leathers, okay, depending for what you're using it. In this case, it's a size 44, which is between size 44, vintage sizes run smaller. So these could be like equivalent to a regular 40 nowadays, like a medium size that they would be a large, which is a highly desirable size, okay? Size is about everything. And you see how I let it go for cheap in my website. If you have, again, these, I am not a full-time seller anymore. These comparables are from five or four years ago. I wanna make sure your audience understands that, okay? And this was my website. I was building it organically without promoting or having sales or advertising. So that allowed me to, because I bought my inventory, I'd pay for these jacket $25, you see? Okay, mm-hmm. Right. So you sold it cheaper to help grow your website, and then you'll have repeat customers come back because they got a good deal. That makes sense. And I helped my wholesaler because I would come and let's say in one purchase, I would acquire like 200 items. I feel was sometimes $5,000, $6,000. Right. Yeah. Okay. So it was just a good relationship that you built with people. And yeah, that's awesome. That's an amazing jacket. And your pictures are amazing. Thank you. Can you believe there was no photo room back then? So I have to... Oh, I'm like, how did she do that? Well, I have a very good photo studio and I use a G9 professional Canon camera on manual settings. And I taught myself professional photography. It's so much easier now, right? You just... It's perfectly... You just use the back of the remover, that's it. Yes, yes. So this perfectly has a background remover, you guys. If you do not know about that, it is a great feature, so... I wanna show you something that is important and vintage. Okay. Check always armpits. On this case, we have only slight discoloration, but the liner is in pristine condition. So always check liners. When you have a leather jacket and you have with liner, you've got the Holy Grail because that liner is gonna have way much more details. You see the quality? Right, yeah. And a lot of times that lining will, if it's really damaged or used, it'll actually rip, right, and tear. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Because in acrylic, back in the day, it used to use poly, which is more like a stretchy fabric. I believe it was more like a firm, it's an artificial, man-made fabric that was very not forgiven and through time, it would crack. Okay. Yeah, I was gonna ask you about the tag if it actually says horse hide, how you knew it was horse hide. So it tells you right there on the tag. Okay. Yeah, that's amazing. And then I show you, see the whole tag. Yeah, your pictures are fantastic. A great example of how you need to show vintage clothing items. To really show people what they're looking for. Yeah. This is a tip for your audience. Okay, Bola buddies, okay? If you're... What's up? Don't, maybe you don't need to describe these to the tea, but let them know whether it's with a coin, with a, I use a red tape so they couldn't tell that I didn't show them, okay? So you can see, this is no damage. For a vintage jacket, you can't say this is damage. Now, if it is a modern Prada jacket, right, that you wore twice, yes, that's damage. But for vintage, we call these de-stressed, normal signs of wear. That's how you wanna sell that, okay? Yeah, for the age, that's, looks great. Don't undersell it. In the buttons, in these cases, I don't know why I'm not able to show the button. Oh gosh, you know, this, like I said, you know, this is our old website, you know, we built it eight years ago. These comparables, this one is from four years ago. So I wish I could show you the buttons. Buttons are everything. I'm gonna show this one and let's see if I can maximize it. Okay, there, there we go. Okay, so buttons are everything on these jackets, okay? If you have unequal buttons, don't get it. That means it's been altered, it's been repaired and that destroys the value of the jacket unless you're willing to let it go for $100. So if somebody paid 25 for it and it had some damage and they wanted to flip it for 100 to 150, that would still be a good buy, but they're not gonna get the return that you got. Exactly, exactly. Okay, because I sell damaged stuff all the time because I feel like there's collectors out there that still want the item, they'll try to repair it, but don't overpay for it if it has that damage because they may not make as much as you're making because yours is in mint condition pretty much, right? So when it comes to vintage clothing, even the vintage clothing with flaws, okay? Forget about the flaw and focus about the style, the brand and how desire it could be, why? Because vintage clothing is the prime item that people that do upcycle use for their designs, okay? Okay, so don't forget, your audience is not gonna be just someone that wants to wear it. Your audience is also an artist that is gonna design, okay, from that vintage is gonna pair it with another garment and upcycle that garment. So don't forget you're appealing to many audiences with vintage. Okay, great tip. Great tip. This is what I know nothing about, so I love this. Can I move on to the next one? Yeah, yeah. Okay, this is Amanda, okay? Amanda helped me on this one because she's a historian. So this is when it comes to talk, this is what we call the Marlon Brando biker style, the wild one, the style is called the Marlon Brando because of the stars that we have here on the shoulders, on the e-pollets. And then we have this D pocket, the little Zippo or lighter pocket here with this classic style that you can lift the collar and then the belt. And then we need also the sleeves to have those zippers. So now I'm gonna go on detail. So again, very important when you buy vintage, if you have that tag barely hanging in there, that is, I would say, if you don't have the right style, if you have the style, don't worry, buy it again, buy it, okay? Yeah, but if you don't have the style, it's a classic, let's say, biker jacket with the mock collar and the two stripes here, and you don't have a leather or a brand, that's gonna be, unless you're very sure that it's a beautiful style, it's gonna be a hard sell. Has to be an incredible zipper and stuff like that. So here we can see how shoulders, usually on vintage, shoulders will become so grainy. They lead at the undoing your hands. So always check shoulders when you buy it and armpits again, you catch it, okay? Yeah. You wanna yank it a little, make sure that seams are there, okay? Very crucial. And then here we can appreciate the zipper, oops, sorry, the zipper, all right? I can tell right off the bat, okay, that this zipper, okay? I would question that this zipper is original. I would think that this was repaired in the 60s, okay? Could be original because of the seams, I don't see additional, could, do you see that? It's very faint. So it's ideal that you see, was the zipper replaced or not? Because connoisseurs of vintage, they will understand that right away. Okay, we have here, do you see how I'm showing the flaws of the liner? And look at, look, I'm showing the color that has a little dry rot, I believe you call it in English. Okay. Okay, again, oh, here is the zipper. So because of the seams, okay, I think this could be an original one, okay? Okay. But that's how I literally analyze every garment. Yeah, so you really have to educate yourself on what it should be. Because I would look at that and just be like, I have no idea. And that one sold for how much? This one sold, hold on. I wanted to show these zippers also crucial that you see these zippers on the cuffs, okay? Crucial that you also review. And then these ones you say have like a little pull chain. So everything is matching to the era. But again, I'm always verifying, you know, how, if it is original, this one sold in our website for $600. Now, again, you could sell this easily for $2,000. Wow. It's a small size, highly wanted with younger generations, okay, that they're creating this vintage original. Vintage is pretty hot, right? I know, I know, you gotta understand we were the few ones selling this kind of, look at my condition, pre-owned, this dress condition, heavy signs of, unfortunately, my employee put wash it, but it should have been, this is a template, okay, that we use, oopsie. Heavy signs of wear, particularly around the interior color liner area as seen in photos. Perfectly worn for that authentic renegade look. Still run smooth, authentic vintage condition. Yup, so great keywords and all of that stuff. That's fantastic. Quilted liner, shoulders, trapezoid polyts with start stats, attached belted waist, C-snap down point, sleep, vintage Esco off-center, zip front, details, all the details that we would note. I think people that sell vintage clothing are very detailed, you know, I'm like more of the, I just wanna take a picture and say, see photos. So I would probably be not great at vintage clothing, and I do find it from time to time, but I just never know what style it is, how to describe it. So would you recommend just searching like solds and just reading keywords, and is that how you learn? Exactly, so I want you to search sold, not for pricing, please, we'll talk about pricing, okay? Not for pricing, pricing, if you're looking at comps in the past to set pricing, you're losing money. We're in recession right now, the supply chain is broken, it's really broken, okay? So the pricing should be set for what is available, not what's sold in the past, okay? So that's my highest recommendation, and with vintage, that I would say if you find comps in the past, five X or 10 X more, otherwise you let it go to another seller. Just know that you're selling to another seller. You wanna sell to an end user, consumer, this is the type of listing you gotta do, tell a little of the story. Okay. If you're gonna do a quick listing, so then you're selling to other sellers, or someone that is just very savvy, trying to get a deal, but you're not building a relationship for that customer to come back and buy something else, unless you have another great screaming deal like that. Gotcha, okay. And we always set hours, and the reason is if you look at in the old days, we were the only ones on eBay, if you would look at eBay, we always were the most highest in pricing on eBay. In everything we did. Yeah. Price. Yeah, we measure it. So a listing, telling a story takes us like this, okay? With details and photos and everything, I would say, and this is because you have one of a kind, A, one of a kind, you're really researching pricing and the story. And when I say pricing is not what's sold, is what is available, right? Who else has it? Okay. How unique is my item? And then measurements, images, is put it on the inventory rack, and then store it because it's leather. I have to protect it. If you're in a dry weather like Arizona, you have to really protect it on a special climate control. I would say it would take me between 10 to 15 minutes. Okay. With everything, okay? And that's going to all channels, okay? Yeah. Yep. So, okay. So can I go to the next? Yes. All right, let's do these. Okay, check these out, Courtney. Oh my goodness. Check out all the buddies. All right. So if you see a racing suit, I want you to touch the fabric. If you feel that feels like a t-shirt, unless it's very vintage, very vintage, and you're going to be able to tell by the zipper that it's going to look like a teardrop. Okay? Don't get it. Don't get it, okay? In this case, Nomex is, I can't remember when Nomex started to get, I think it was in the 60s that Nomex started to be, or maybe a little earlier, on racing suits, okay? So what you want to do is make sure, are you getting a real vintage racing suit, okay? That is cotton and you should get it just because at that time there was no Nomex, or are you getting a vintage suit that is with Nomex, and at the same time has some patches because literally, if you're gonna try to sell a racing suit without patches for 500 or 450, like I did, it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be really hard. So patches, you can see right off the bat, okay? Very important that we provide, okay? A cop, we show them, okay, the label. Simpson is a very well-known brand, okay? When it comes to these vintage racing suits, okay? And then just provide them a picture that is not stained. Do you see, it seems very, very excellent condition. I'm showing that might have, look at, it has a little time. Do you see how detailed I am with vintage? I will not get a return because I didn't mention something. Right. All right, I'm showing cuffs here, okay? There is the brand, okay? Again, showing that it's original. You're gonna find many people that they did their homemade vintage clothing sometimes, okay? So it's very important that you verify all those details. And then we, again, Nomex is a form of nylon that is flame retardant developed, there it is, developing the early 60s. I love it. I want this one. I want this one. I answered your question. I answered my own question, look at that. So here we have the measurements, very good. I put just in case, moderate signs of wear just to protect myself, you know, pin size, discolorations, and then one pin head hole, one pea size hole fray. So you see, we always zipper run smooth. Very important that you always describe how the zipper works when you're selling vintage. Oh, do you see the teardrop? Okay, there it is, Talon. Talon teardrop zipper. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Okay. Got it. Awesome. All right, okay. And I'm gonna show just one more, you know, showing just one more picture just in case, all possible angles. So the next one is, this is one, oh, oh, what a feel I got this one. Okay, let me tell you the story of this one. Where we Amanda at the Rose Bowl flea market that is once a month in LA, right? Pasadena, Pasadena, Los Angeles. So we arrive, obviously like free in that buy, literally by 10 a.m., you are there physically, but mentally it's like you're checking out. Slowly. Yeah, you got it. All you can think is food and coffee. Yeah. So we're about to get out and I'm like, I saw just the three stripes, the three stripes, the green, white, and red. That's all I saw inside of a box. That's how it is on the Rose Bowl. They put it on top of tarps or boxes. Oh my goodness. And I see that and I was like, oh, Italian, you know, I love, you know, hey, you know, I have, there is some Italian in my family. You know, what is it? And I go and I yank it and I find this, Courtney. Wow. Can you freaking do? Wow. Okay, and then I see the made in Taiwan, republic, you know, oh my God, I couldn't believe this is the real deal. Hold on, at that time, I didn't know this. Wait, it gets better. Okay. It gets better. So at that time, I didn't know this. So we had, I realized that this was the Sylvester Stallone. And look at the condition. Me too. Wow. And these, I found two. One I sold on eBay for $1,000 and the other I sold here for $4.50 on my website. No. No, huh? That's fantastic. The block print on this Adidas tree foil, you can feel it the felt with your fingers. Oh, yeah. 100% authentic. I was so, so happy with this one. I just did a featured members video and one of the members sold a vintage champion sweatshirt, champion, just a, I can't remember if it, I think it was like a college maybe sweatshirt and he sold it for over $400. And it was just at an estate sale in a closet. That's right. That's right. No, it's highly, what champion right now is highly one of the young generations, especially champion, I've seen an explosion on Poshmark and Depop, an explosion of Deep because that's a different audience than let's say eBay or Etsy. Yeah. And that was Cha-ching-king. Since I mentioned it, I do want to shout out his channel. I like to shout out channels. So he does some vintage clothing and he had two of those champion sweatshirts and they both did really well. So Cha-ching-king, okay. Cha-ching-king. So definitely check him out. He's great. He's super, super great guy. So yeah, his name's Scott. Oh, awesome. Awesome. Okay, I'll check it out. I already wrote it. All right. We all like Cha-ching. It should be easy to remember, right? Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. This is something that is incredible. Okay? Yes. Dead heads, okay? Grateful dead. Yes, Grateful dead. Oh my goodness. Okay. So what makes so special is not the tag on this case, Courtney. Okay. This is just a traditional fruit of the loom. Okay. Usually you want to have it. There is another brand that you want to see with when it comes to Grateful Dead. But in this case, what made it so special is the copyright, okay, that we have. And it says US Ski Team. Wow. Yeah, that's great. That made it so special. Yep. And look at, let me show you. This is very important. So when you buy vintage t-shirts, be careful. If you don't have these copyrights and these licensing, marketables could take away your listings. It's not about anybody can do a replica of a t-shirt right now with a laser printer. Right. You must have this original print and the ones that we know, we know. And buyers know. Okay. Right. So when in doubt, my biggest advice is get it, but if you're gonna get it for a good deal. If the seller is asking for high price, don't get it. It's not worth it. The risk. All right. So that's very important when it comes to these vintage t-shirts. Oh, let me show you the back. Check this out. Check this out. That's pretty awesome. Look at the time. 218, okay. Winter tour, 94, 95. Isn't that incredible? Look at that. And look at the color and the graphics still look great. It's incredible. This one is incredible. All right. Next one. A classic. This is the one that you asked me. You asked me. Can I deliver Kourtney for your solo buddies? Ralph Lauren. Yep. This is important. I'm gonna show you why. Oh, unfortunately. Do I have only just one picture? Oh, why? What a pity. I'm gonna see if I can do, okay. I'm gonna see, I'm gonna, well, I'm gonna describe it, unfortunately. So this is a vintage 90s, Southwestern, sweater, Ralph Lauren. And the tag, it's the Polo Country Green Tag. Made in USA, yep. Made in USA. So that, you know, is an authentic. Sometimes in the 90s could be done in, I think it was Korea or Vietnam, okay? Sometimes. But Polo Country, this is the label. Mike, let me see if I can show very easily. Barely, we can see it up here. Polo Country Green up there, okay? So you see the buttons, the leather buttons are still perfectly attached. The show color is perfect. There is no ring around the collar. Okay. Like it's in mint condition. It looks amazing. Thank you so much. See, again, a small introduction. Like I said, you know, if you're gonna try to sell it for, now these ones are being, you gotta understand we sold a lot of these to Polo, okay? In Polo in New York. So now they're being remade, okay? So it's all about sizes now. And if Polo is making this particular size, but it's very big. If you go now to the Polo stores, you're gonna find that they have a lot of Southwestern Navajo, they call it, the line of- But they need to make sure it's vintage. Exactly. And won't be fooled by something that is current. Exactly, something that is not being redone. Because then you're gonna have a hard time selling it for a, again, see what is available. You wanna sell Polo vintage, go and see right now what they have on their vintage collection. And go and see on the outlets. Very important, okay? Because here you are maybe dealing with a reseller of a vintage trying to charge you $50, but then you can find it on the outlets here in Arizona, okay? I have Amphen outlets, it's really close to my house. Literally, I'm like 15 minutes from the outlets and I find all insane Polo Ralph Lauren, like Navajo down jacket for $100. And you sell them for like $600 or something like that. So these are the Buffy Downs and Excel size, Excel that are very hard sizes to get online. However, in outlets it's very easy. When it comes to describing the condition here, I said normal wear, no stains since are still tight and ready to wear only three pin size pools on front and one on back. So when I say a pool, it's something that literally, we don't dare to fix it, but it's not something that is gonna create a hole. So we leave it up to the person that acquires, but still it was not in mean condition. This could be an exception today. If you find this, make sure it's in a great condition and it has the tag attached and it doesn't have a new style recreated by Polo. Okay, yeah, I know that Ralph Lauren Polo items have a really loyal following and a lot of people will auction them on eBay, like the old hats. And I know the ski print and the bear print are two things to really look for with Ralph Lauren, but that's just from researching not from me selling those items. I haven't been lucky enough to find them, but I do know that just from doing my channel and my Facebook group, so. You got it right, you got it. And can you believe that's how I made Amanda? I'll tell you the story. Okay, very good. Okay, thanks to Polo downhill skier best. Okay, I'll tell you. Yes, I have it down. There it is. There it is. You asked for it and I deliver. This is the famous Polo Ralph Lauren downhill or suicide skier cookie stadium patch. And I'll show you what that is. Okay. Almost $600 in my website. Okay. So it would definitely probably go for more than that on eBay. On eBay, I sold it for 2000. Wow. I found many of these ones. Wow. Many, many, many, many, many, many. And I wish I had comps from eBay, but you know how it is, you know, a terrific only one year and then eBay only 90. So when I met Amanda 13 years ago, I met her socially because she came with her laptop to one of my barbecues. And she asked 13 years ago for my wifi password. And I was a banker at that time. You can imagine. I'm like, okay, okay, I'll do it. And when I asked my friends, is she reliable? You know, can we trust her? So said and done, I give her my password and then I see she goes to a corner of my house. We're all eating barbecue, cheering and she's just smiling by herself on the corner of the house. Keep in mind, there was no smartphones and of course I'm like, okay, I gave you my wifi, you know, password, you're gonna tell me what is my wifi password. And I went to her like, hey, here's some barbecue. You know, hey, what are you so happy about? And I'm like, oh, can I tell you about it? And I'm like, yeah. And she's like, I'm an eBay seller and look at what I just sold. And all I can see is a vest with a downhill skier but a hole in the chest. It had a hole in the chest. All I could see is the whole Courtney, okay? And imagine, so if you please here in the chest, here, right there, hole, okay? And I'm like, I didn't sell sold. Are you freaking, and I look at the price $200 and I looked at, hey, aren't you gonna get in trouble for doing that? And she said, no, no, no, Clara. Look at this, you know, she shows me. Look, look, look, I'm gonna go to description, see moderate signs of wear. Let's say, you know, hole in the chest, I'll never get fit size hole on chest as shown on pictures. Oh my goodness. Two weeks later, she gets a five star review, okay? In a picture, the person saying, thank you so much. This is the vest that I used to engage to my wife and today we are reviewing our vows as he's in the picture. That's awesome. Do you see what is to describe the story of vintage? It's an emotional sale. All the time. So in this case, okay, we have a, oh, this is important, there it is, made in Hong Kong. Okay, let me see. Singapore, okay, Singapore or Hong Kong? The night is you wanna see Singapore or Hong Kong and then do you see, you know, how it is 80% down and 20% water, whole feather and the tags are perfect, okay? You wanna make sure, you know, the horse is not too big or the horse is not on the side, okay? I know there is, I've seen knockoffs of vintage or handmade, very important, the embroidery, okay? To be in great condition in this case. Do you see it's in the spell out on the side? Exactly, that polo USA, these jacket without the polo USA and the cookie on the front and just the embroidery, I would say, look, it has, I can see the pea-sized hole right there, okay? There has a pea-sized hole right there, I can see it. Okay, that one right now, okay? I would say just down here, skier in eBay, I would say 700, I think I haven't checked comparables, please, okay? I would say 700, that's why I would let it go in this condition. I, keep in mind, I always sold for high value. I waited my six months for the right person to sell it. Gotcha. Okay, let's see what makes these jackets so, and do you see the snaps? You better check those snaps and make sure they're original to Ralph Lauren, the zipper Waike K, or talon, okay? Very important that cookie patch, this is called the cookie patch. Anything that you find back in the day, this was very unique. Unfortunately, now this is being redone all over with Ralph Lauren, it's not so original, okay? Okay. But what makes it original is the cookie patch with that downhill skier. Okay. Now let's see the condition of the sleeves. Now look at this condition. Nowadays, you, it's this, this stress condition, it's highly wanted by younger generations. Back in the day, when I sold this, this was not wanted, people wanted better conditions. Do you see there the pea-sized hole? Okay. That's the things. So very important you show details. In today's, people are less concerned about condition. The younger generations that are buying it, they're not as concerned. Exactly. The younger generations, they don't mind phrase or express stress. Okay. Back in the day, anybody on eBay would say, ooh, it has a flow, I'll give you $10. Okay. Okay. Everybody remembers the collectors want things that are, you know, just to showcase it. Yeah, okay. Versus younger generation that wants to use it for it. I just want to wear it. Yep, for cool style, you know? Gotcha. The next one we have, okay, I wanted to do real quick, okay? Here is my top selling categories for women's clothing. We've done everything. We sold even cars on the clothing vault, okay? Oh, wow. Okay, in this case, I'm going to stick to what made the clothing vault famous, okay? And I'm going to share this first comparable that I want to share with you. The beaded. Wow. Dresses, I cannot emphasize, okay? If you can see all those, this one is beautiful, isn't it? You see, there is no discoloration. This is a rayon liner, basically. Rayon liners get this color with time. This was kept on a trunk. I'm surprised that didn't sell for more. That is all, it's full bead, right? Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Wow. Too much women's, you know, we didn't, you know, it's something, you know, that we didn't put much effort. We didn't know how to describe it. As you can see, you know, we don't know how to describe it. You see, do you see how glamorous, you know? Yeah. We're silk, we've been told. Made in India, which is very, very highly desired. Wow. Silk, rayon and made in India, absolutely. Now this would have no prongs being sold nowadays for a thousand dollars. It's beautiful. I sold it to another reseller. Yeah, it's beautiful. Wow. All right. The next comparable is, oh my goodness. So I want you to do this. That's awesome. Look at the hood. Oh my God, it's so beautiful. Look at this. So unique. Wow. Now look at the union. Yeah, okay. The union, okay. Very important. I have heard that. So you see, look at that. Look at the hood, how I'm showing the zipper. All right. Amazing. Showing the back. So beautiful. It's acrylic. I feel it. Okay, let's go to the here. Okay, so let's see. Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da. Pile fabric method. It doesn't show, but it's mostly acrylic, okay? And as always, show the zipper. Invent it, you must show that zipper. Do not polish zippers. Buyers do not want you to polish zippers. Do not overdo it. Do you see high quality zipper? Not like that one. That one has it. Mm-hmm, very important when it comes to vintage. 250,000, never worn. That is amazing. Mm-hmm. Measurement. Love that. 1955 USA Ladies Garment Workers Union Maytag. Awesome. That's fantastic. Thank you. Next one, another of my favorites. I always did very good on vintage with capes. Okay. In this case, this is a military issue, okay? Because these are military nurses, okay? Okay. For the Vintage 40s Navy Wool Nurse Cape. You know, and this is from the brand. Let's see. Standardized by standard apparel company from Cleveland, Ohio. Ooh, that's close to me. Ah-ha! I live in Ohio. So check out the introduction. In World War II, nurses near the battlefield would be a soldier saving grace and they would be wearing one of these very same capes. This wool nurse's cape comes with embroidery reading SMH, which is usually their hospital. Okay, let me go here. Okay, this is what is very good. Do you see that embroidery? Yeah. That's what makes this jacket. That's amazing. I think it's called the brocade embroidery, which is much highly wanted than the tender embroidery. Now look at those buttons. Amazing. Yes, that is awesome. The problem when you find these capes nowadays is that it doesn't have these straps or it's missing the capes. Okay. All right. That makes sense. Is that so you can unfasten it from either side? Exactly, exactly. So I'm showing the little floss that it has. Yep. I'm doing a close up of the button. There is a little scratch on the button right there. Very important to show that. And the little details that I love to show. And that's why people search for vintage buttons on eBay, because they want to replace them on vintage clothing. Money maker! Money maker! Follow bodies! Go get those vintage buttons. If they are metal, please, or leather. Metal, bronze, leather, vintage buttons, even the cross ones, okay? The knot buttons called the knot leather button. Get them. Highly want especially the big ones. Go dive in and get it. Incredible how fast they sell. Especially on Etsy. In my condition I describe, okay? Only slight signs of actual wear. One pin head in one pea-sized holes on the left front side of the interior liner. The buttons are firm and the embroidery is in great shape. So it's very, very important to put in that detailed information for the condition when selling vintage items and include photos. Exactly. Avoid returns. You don't want to do this extra work. Remember, you're gonna be selling to other sellers and they might want a freebie and they will win. The case would be that they could win because it wasn't described. It's vintage, it's a very picky category to sell in. All right. Next is anything that is like, I cannot say enough, like flamboyant, like over the top, okay? Yeah, yeah. And it doesn't have to be a brand, Courtney. Look at this front too. All right, maybe Taiwan, all right? It's not a brand, it's not a brand, but look at how much it's sold for. Yeah, but it's fancy and it's different and it's unique and somebody is looking for it. Look at the came with the buttons because he has still the original buttons. Always, I always show even if it is new, the cuffs, okay? So I have a question. Yes. Who's NOS, new old stock for items that are vintage hard goods? Is dead stock basically mean that it's never been worn? It's what can you explain the term dead stock to me? Thank you so much. So we have dead stock, okay? Or new old stock, it's the same thing. What does it mean? It's an item that is no longer being manufactured and it's more than 20 years old. And it has still, okay, the original manufacturer or retailer tags. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yep, so it's a highly wanted condition among vintage collectors when you have something that is this, if I had it today, I would put it for $500 in eBay, easily. In way, I know I would sell it to Europe. I know all Europeans love it. They love it. They love it. I've had a lot of international sales lately. I don't know what's going on, but a lot. And I'm talking hard goods, not clothing, vintage clothing, but just it seems like every day I'm having international sales. So it's pretty cool. I'm happy with it. My clientele, because mainly my main platform was eBay, my clientele was always 60% international. Okay. Okay. So internationally, a lot of vintage clothing goes internationally. Oh, all day, all day. France, Italy, Germany, okay. No need to give them lower offers. They'll pay whatever. You increase the price, they'll still buy it. Trust me. I know snapback hats, vintage snapback hats. I've sold a few of those. And most of those high dollar ones have went internationally. Absolutely for me. That's been my experience with those. The last one that I wanna show you, okay. I have more if you want, but the last one, at least on the woman's category is people, anything red, leather, okay. Like black leather coats for men, red leather coats for women is like honey to bees. Okay. This one. Yes. This one. I have a special story to tell about this one. The person bought it on eBay and tells me change the address Clara. And I'm like, no, I'm not gonna change the address. I'll show you the address. You need to speak with eBay at that address. We cancel the sale and then you purchase it again. You know what she does? She goes and buys it on Etsy. And she tells me again, send it to a different address. And I go, no, if you want this, by this time I already cancel the eBay sale. All right. And I have it on Etsy. In Etsy at that time, it was iffy. You could change the address if not. They say you can do it now. I wouldn't do it. Okay. Again, I don't do it. I just don't do it. Especially on high dollar items. Like if it's a little bread and butter item, it might be okay to take a chance on Etsy, but really with something high dollar, I would definitely not risk it. Yeah. There's usually something. And why did they wanna change the address, you know? Exactly. And then you did the same mistake again on Etsy. Come on. So I cancel the sale on Etsy and she comes to my website. Okay. Now on my website, my rules. Okay. Yeah. What you have to protect yourself on your website is charge box. And the way you do that, okay, is by only shipping. Okay. I only allow her to do PayPal. I already, I can tell her pattern. So I only allow her to pay with PayPal. So in that case, I was protected by PayPal and it was done by my website. And of course she tried to do like a, what is it? Item not as described. I was like, okay, send the item back. Yeah, exactly. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. So vintage 80s, red leather trench coat. Now, let me show you the brand. Look at this brand, Courtney. Have you ever heard of it? I, no. I haven't heard of it either. Me either. Okay, good. I'm embarrassed. You're like, no, it's one good brand. Don't worry about it. No, me either. Okay. So the good news is that it's a generic brand, but what is important with red leather, look at these umbrella, we call it the umbrella, what is it called? Back. Amazing style. Look at these. Okay. Look at that style. It's belted. It's included the belt. Has E-Pollets. Look at the details on the, has like a little straps with buttons on the cuffs. And these color, wow. These color, it's incredible. Now, again, it's long. It's, yeah. Now, 13, 14, is that more of a vintage size or is that, cause like when I think of a size 13, the odd numbers I think of juniors. Exactly. So vintage always runs smaller. I was new at this at that time when I did this listing. These was like 10 years ago when I started to resell multi-platform. And here's what you can see. My mistake, I could have say, hey, vintage sizes run smaller. I could have said, this is equivalent to a small, modern size. That's what if you look at my latest listings in LP about vintage, that's what I started to do and really help people. Otherwise, I would be like, no, go by the measurements and look at the chest is 40, Courtney. That's, that's, you know, medium, you know, but then look at the tiny waist, you know, 38, you know, tiny waist, okay? Yeah. So, so, you know, it's, it's, that's what is most about, you know, sharing or, or, or showing about vintage. Okay. Let me show you this one. So can you see my website, the clothing vault? I see it. Yep. Okay. So this is the landing page and this is what I want to show with everybody. When we did our own website, we wanted to prove that you can have an ugly website and have beautiful things and still make half a million dollars. So this is what I did. Okay. This is our vintage. This is all of our listings. You can see shirts here. Okay. You can see jackets from satin jackets, sport jackets, college jackets, polis, motorcycle jackets. Now, let me show you this. You can, you have even military jackets. I had by brands, they leave by Strauss. I have vintage t-shirt. All right. That stock, the category that you like. Okay. Yes. Okay. Vintage, leather, everything is available. All these are my pictures. And look at what I did here. This is my picture of my laptop. Okay. Sending my traffic to eBay and sending my traffic to Etsy. I'm not stealing traffic from them. Right. I'm sending them traffic. I'm saying, because I didn't do, okay, I didn't do search changing optimization for my website. I didn't do, I rely on the organic content of my listings. Okay. And I proved it. I proved it. You know, it's possible in that after we have the clothing ball website, eBay store, Etsy store, we have the clothing ball eBay, the clothing ball Etsy, the clothing ball Facebook, the clothing ball Pinterest, I had the problem of inventory management. So what I wanted was a centralized inventory management and a listing place. I didn't want it to start my listings on a marketplace. I wanted to start it in my own platform. So then I could just send the listings to the different marketplaces and control it from my seller half. That's how List Perfectly was born. Back then call List Clothing or AKA in the beginning, it was called the Mandi Lister. Well, the co-founder of List Perfectly, Amanda, she's the non-technical, the technical partner that taught herself coding after being a reseller in the, you know, and we needed the solution of List Perfectly. Right. Yeah. List Perfectly. I don't use the catalog and I know that I should and I know there's so many benefits to that. And I should get you back on here sometime and have you show everyone how to utilize the catalog because I start on eBay and then I cross post to the other platforms, which works amazing for me. And that's what's great about List Perfectly is everybody can utilize it how they want. But I would love to have a video showing how the catalog works because I'm missing out on that D-List feature. And do you want to tell them some of the things I'm missing out on? Well, you know what, Courtney, I need to develop a solution for you because Courtney is, she's doing marketplace to marketplace because how do you import 10,000 listings to LP? Okay. Yeah. You can do not quite to 10,000, but I have a lot. Because you're selling, right? So how do you do, even though you can do 250 listings with good internet, let's say in 20 minutes, 30 minutes, okay. Still we have a big segment of users like Courtney that don't just don't want to import. And that's fine. What we're going to develop is a massive import. We're going to help you. Courtney, soon it's coming, okay. Where you're going to be able to import all of those 10,000 listings in bulk, okay, to LP. So then you can have, okay, your all of your listings in LP and then manage from there. Right now we're limited at your device, internet and personal settings to set up the maximum amount of listings you can transfer. For example, if you have rural internet, okay, if you're in a, I'm sorry, if you're in a rural area, okay, with one of those satellites, internet, you might be able to do two, three listings importing at a time, you know, maybe 10 minutes, okay. So everything depends, but I would be honored to come back and talk about the catalog of list perfectly, but the way you're using list perfectly right now, it's perfect. Because for me, I love it, but I just wanna make sure that my viewers understand that there are other options. So if they want to utilize the catalog, it has so many benefits, like the inventory management side of it and, you know, the D list feature, I'm still manually removing mine. So lots of things that I'm missing out on because I don't use catalog. Oh, Courtney, as soon as coming the automatic removal sold listing. So when you sell on eBay, we automatically, or let's say you sold in Mercari, we automatically remove it from all marketplaces, done. Wow, so that's in the future. Coming, no, right now Teresa Cox is playing with it right now. Oh, wow. It's literally, we're very soon. Yes, we're just finishing a couple of bugs, okay, just because we're gonna be adding some additional features as well. We're very excited. Okay, so you're saying instead of having to hit D list and look it up, it's just automatically gonna do it. At least perfectly we'll do it. That's amazing. And then we're gonna release the enterprise version for you. I'll let you know and I let, I let know all the Bolo bodies that are amazing like yourself, okay? As soon as I have that feature, in the meantime, please keep using LP the best way you can and anything I can do for helping our community with vintage knowledge. That is awesome. Thank you for coming on and sharing your Bolo's. I wanted people to see that you are actually a, you were a reseller, you don't do it much anymore because you've got so much going on with list perfectly, but you definitely know your stuff. And it just, I appreciate and love that you both were resellers first and develop this product for resellers because there was a need, you know? So, and it shows your customer service is fantastic. And you guys are constantly upgrading and adding new features like nothing I've ever seen before. I can't say, I mean, just you're awesome, awesome. So I appreciate it so much. So thank you for coming on and sharing your Bolo's and your knowledge with vintage clothing. Again, that is something that I can't give to my viewers because I don't know about it. And so many people are wanting to learn about vintage clothing. So I think this is gonna be super helpful. So thank you so much, Courtney, for having me here. Thank you Bolo bodies. Thank you everyone for watching and thanks for watching.