 Hey guys, it's Brandon, creator of Happily Dressed, a fashion blog dedicated to self-acceptance and self-confidence and self-sufficiency and welcome back to my channel. So I've been wanting to do a thrift haul video for you guys for a while now, but I also want to go to the thrift store because recently I haven't been thrifting a lot of clothes, it's been more materials, fabrics, or shoes, just things that hop out to me. But today's video is going to be a trip to the thrift and thrift haul video all wrapped into one because I went to the thrift store with my friend Kai today. I found a lot of cool things, mostly material, but also some cool shoes, and I went thrifting yesterday and last week and picked up a few pieces. So I'm going to go ahead and throw it over to vlog Brandon and he'll take over from there. Hello peeps, I am in one of my favorite thrift stores on this side of town and that is Myrna Thrift, trying to see what I want to get. My friend Kai's here, you can't see him but he's all the way down there doing his thing, but I'm just trying to see if I can find some fabrics or any clothing that speaks out to me. It's very rare that I find clothing nowadays that speak out to me because I just want to make it all. But this sweater I actually found yesterday and will be a part of the little haul at the end, but I'm just going to keep looking and see what I find. It's a kind of nice cut, right? It looks good, yeah. It's got a nice fit to it. Say hi to the fans. Hi fans. You can see yourself if you want to say, hey, hello, this is Kai, but that looks really good. Yeah? Yeah, I found this material guys. I'm going to make some pants out of it hopefully. Your classic vlog look, like brothers, oh my God, is that racist to say? We're just both handsome and black. Look at that. So, so sweet. So guys, unfortunately Kai's blazer doesn't have a tag and they will not sell it to him without a tag. They will not. It's a genuine US Army coat. When are you ever going to find that? I know, I'm sorry. They'll never find it again. I mean, we can tell them to retag and they can get it tomorrow. The quality was unmatched. Unmatched? Okay, the comfort was unmatched. The fitting of it. Unmatched. He'll find it again. I won't. Show them that cute-ass green. Let's get into this basic tea. Yeah. That little Henley. You know what? The little Henley. That's what it is. That's what it's called. Oh yeah? Yeah, that'll look good. I just love, what do you call it? Thermal? Yeah, thermals. Waffle net. Love these, these detailing on the buttons. There you go. Okay. Love this little collar. Is that it? Yeah. You can't really see that. What you have is this. Straight up. I might go to Park Avenue Thrift without this guy because he has something else to do. I'm glad I look down. My cuff is coming up. That looks good. I'll show them the hoodie I found or the sweatshirt. The fans just want to know. They just want to know. They just want to know what I found for you. You know, it's my Enneagram 4 type personality. That's all recognized, Brandon. I got to be an individual. I've always been a fan of navy. This is like a lighter navy too. I feel like it kind of works. All right. Yeah, that looks good. Come on, sportswear. Turn it back. Let's see that low sponsorship. All right. You're moving too much. You're moving too much. You're moving too much too. Yes, I want to see it. Actually, I noticed there's something for me to get some new glasses because I really can't see even though I wear glasses. So, Kai and I definitely just walked into a restaurant. I was feeling, oh, my hand. Oh. The ash. We walked into a whole restaurant. Also, my skin looks so good. Okay. Can we get into the light? Can we get into the light? Oh, sorry. The light's not even on you. You can see a whole behind restaurant only to leave and come to if you know me. You know exactly where I'm already am. Zach's piece. So, I just got to my second thrifting location, Park Avenue Thrift. I feel like every time I type in Park Avenue, I go to a different one every single time. They're like plenty in Marietta. But I can never go to the same one. This was not the one I was expecting to be at. But hopefully I find some really cool stuff we'll have to see. There wasn't much in there. And I couldn't vlog because they were playing the radio very loud. And you know, I can't have any copyrighted music on here. But I got some boots that I actually really like and would think will be really cool. I can show you guys when I get home. I might try to go to one more or I might just go home if it's not close. Because this wasn't the one I was thinking of. I think the one I am thinking of is close to around here. So, we shall see. So, I just realized that I thought I was going to the wrong place because I didn't put it in the right name. I wasn't trying to go to Park Avenue Thrift. I was supposed to go to America's Thrift. And that's why I was so confused. I was like, I keep putting the same thing and it keeps taking me to two different places. But that's because I'm trying to go here. But they close at 7 and it's like 6.20 so I need to hurry up. This place is so cool. They have like 99 cent t-shirt packs. We can get all these t-shirts for just a dollar. I literally just thrifted these exact same boots from the other store. They're like brown. You can't really tell. They're like a brown boot. I live a good heel. But they're a little different. The other boots that I thrifted. I have like a skinnier this part and I have like a chunky one. So I might get these. This place is pretty huge while I found all these boots. So obviously I'm not looking hard enough. I found the fabric section. But look, I got this like obviously faux leather. There we go. This is like navy faux leather that I can make a bag out of. Literally $2. You guys, I just cleaned house. I saw so many cool fabrics and actually I switched those boots out at the very last minute. For some boots that had a more interesting texture. I'm going to get my behind home now because it's late. So now I am back home from, I guess I went to Smyrna Thrift, Park Avenue Thrift and America's Thrift today. And it was a little overwhelming because whenever I go thrifting now I don't really think about clothing. I'm always going for material. But when stores are so big you can't help but just look around. I have a few spots that I always gravitate to. I always go to pants. I always look at shoes. And then I go straight to like the drapery slash fabric materials aisles. So all in all today I ended up leaving pretty light at all places. But that's a good thing for me because I don't need any more clothes. I have so many. And any clothing items that I don't have I can just make for myself. So I feel like thrifting is definitely different for me. But we're just going to jump right into it. So starting off with clothing. The first thing that I thought that was this guy. I'm kind of in love with this sweater. It is super oversized. It reminds me of my New York pullover. But it's huge. I love the colors of it and kind of reminds me of my childhood. I think it's super cool. I love the light blue and navy blue contrast. I love the graphic. All in all you guys know I'm big on silhouette. And this definitely does that for me. Maybe when I'm sitting down it makes me look a little big. But that's okay. Just standing up I think it's cool. Oversized and definitely in fashion. So the next thing I thrifted clothing wise was this amazing purple blazer pantset. I got it from Smyrna Thrift actually about two weeks ago now. But it hasn't had its time to shine. I love this two piece. I'm really big on blazers in general. The way this one fit. The pants are about a half an inch too big. But all I have to do is take them in. Literally a half an inch and it won't be that bad. But I love the color. Definitely feels like a power suit and I cannot wait to wear this out in the streets. The next thing I found actually on that same trip was this leather Harley Davidson vest. You guys know I love Harley Davidson. I have my Harley Davidson boots that I wear almost every day. When I saw this I thought it was just a leather vest at first. I was like oh this is pretty cool. But then I flipped it to the back and saw that amazing graphic and I had to have it. It definitely cost me I think $18. Which is a price I would not normally pay at a thrift store for any item. Because 18 just seems outrageous to me. But now we're going to move on to shoes. One thing about me is that I love boots. I love heeled boots. Anything that gives me a little bit more height because I am only 5'9". Actually I might be 5'8". And I say I'm 5'9". But I really want to be 5'10". I haven't gone to the doctor. Recently so I really don't know my height. But I think truly I'm like 5'8". Maybe even 5'8.5". But I say 5'9". But my dream height has always been 5'10". So whenever I'm looking for shoes I always look for boots with a little bit of a heel in the back. Like my Harley Davidson's that I have on right now. They have a little heel to them. About an inch. An inch and a half. Which I'm always fine to rock. Today at Park Avenue thrift I actually found these boots. I don't own a pair of dark brown boots so I thrifted these bad boys. I love the point and the square toe and the front. I even love how skinny the heel seems. I think these give a good silhouette with crop trousers, distressed jeans. This has a really good effect. They look great. I tried them on. So it'll be a cool challenge to incorporate them into my wardrobe. So as you guys saw while I was at America's thrift I found a pair of brown heels very similar to those. And I just cannot get myself to buy them because they were too similar. Even though I loved how chunky the heel was compared to these. But anyway, I found these boots that are also a dark brown. They have kind of a chunkier heel and have a really cool texture to them. But they have this really cool like, oh it's actually the seams. Like where they stitched it together. They have this really cool stitching which I thought was super neat. Very interesting. Would definitely compliment any pair of jeans that I own or trousers that I make. And they fit when I try them on. I'm always in the women's shoe section. Because I think that any apparel, items of clothes, shoes, accessories, etc. Do not have a gender. So wear what you want to wear. But I saw these and immediately thought that was super interesting. Tried them on. They look great. So I snagged them up. And they were only $5 which is really cool. So next we're going to move on to material. As you guys saw I found so much material at America's thrift. And then yesterday I also went to Lash Chance. I found a lot of really cool fabrics. So I'm going to show them all to you. I'm going to be really quick because fabrics really don't seem like anything until you make something out of them. So I'd love to just make videos of me making things out of these said fabrics. So I'm going to try to just speed through these. So starting off with the fabric that I found at Lash Chance. I found this really cool like lime green, heavier like heavyweight linen almost green fabric that I really want to make a cropped chore jacket out of. I've always just wanted to make a jacket because my friend Taylor has made one. Actually she's made two now I think if not three. And she's so amazing at it. And I'm just very intimidated by jackets. So I thought that I'd give it a try with this fabric. It's super bright. I know this is not everyone's cup of tea but I think it'd be a really cool jacket. Next I found this like sky blue waffle knit, thermal knit material that I thought was really cool. Did I take the price tag off already? Yeah. It was probably like $3.99. I want to make some kind of top with this. I don't know yet. Maybe it'll be a Henley. Maybe it'll be a t-shirt. But I just thought it was a cool fabric to have. When fabric is really cheap, I cannot help but just buy it because I'll never know what I want to make, when I want to make it. So if I like it, if I did the slightest bit interesting, I'll just go ahead and buy it. Next for $4. I found this like it's definitely a tablecloth but I thought they'd make really cool like flared pants like 70s almost. But like they'd be kind of like slimming the thigh and then go out just a little bit right under the knee. I thought that'd be really cool. New material also thrips just for shoots. Like that pant for me seems very editorial and I'd love to shoot that. Whether it's practical out and every day, that is definitely a different question. But I just thought that'd be super cool to make and the material feels so good even though it's a tablecloth. So I think they'd make great pants. Next for $3. I found this like quilted black material that almost reminds me of like a quilted pillow case. I'm always looking for new materials to play around with like editorial looks with. And I thought this would be such a cool like puffy sleeve or cap sleeve or just something super cool that I know I'll make in the future hopefully for some kind of shoot. And lastly the most expensive of them all from Last Chance for $9 was this big roll of white. I don't even know how to describe it. It's super stretchy which is cool but it has kind of a shimmer to it which I thought was really neat. I don't know what I'm going to make with it yet but the texture was so interesting. I can make something super amazing with this. Maybe a jumpsuit that's kind of more like form fitting. So we just have one more round of materials to go through and then we'll be done. So this is the material that I got from America's Thrift. I found this like dark navy. Obviously probably faux leather, pleather, real leather. Who knows honestly. But it was only $2 this deep navy. It doesn't seem like much is there but I can definitely make some kind of cool tote, cross body bag, something cool with this. I'm really excited to do something with it. Oh, my sister's home. Pick a brew. Say hello. That was cool. So I picked it up. I like the silhouette. So the next fabric I found was this really fun like textured yellow with like green stripes. I don't know what I'd make with it. Probably something editorial that I wanted to shoot and maybe not wear out all the time but I just thought it was super neat. And you guys saw me get this like zebra material from Smyrna. Originally I thought pants. I'm always thinking pants. This is crazy. I just love a good pattern. I love things that kind of just jump out at you. Also from America's Fifth I got this really cool like gray sweater material which I thought was neat. But yeah, I think this would be some kind of really cool top that I'm excited to make in the future. Lastly is this really weird like rainbow material. Almost looks like watercolor. It's a really weird print for me. This isn't exactly my cup of tea but there was so much there that I thought it'd be really cool to try to make a pant and jacket combo just because I've never made a jacket before. This would photograph really well too. So that's why I got this. A lot of times too when I see fabrics that have a lot because that was a lot for just, this was four dollars and this is honestly so much. So whenever I see deals like that in a fabric that's not horrible, I get it anyway just to practice my skills just to see what I can do. But that is it for this thrift haul video. I hope you guys enjoyed. If you did, you can give it a thumbs up. I know everyone says that and like you don't have to but it means a lot if you did. 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