 Hey guys, it's Brandon, creator of happily dressed, a fashion blog dedicated to self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency and welcome back to my channel. So today I decided to get back to my roots and film a thrifting haul for you guys. I went thrifting on Monday. Honestly, who knows what day I'm gonna upload this? But I went on a thrifting haul and I want to show you guys some cool things that I got. This was actually one of my lighter thrifting stunts. Recently I've been thrifting a lot for photo shoots. So I've been hauling a lot and getting a lot of clothes, not necessarily for me, but to style and shoot. This time was my first time thrifting for me and I enjoyed it though. I didn't find as much as I wanted to find. I found enough, so let's get started. So the first thing I found would be this really cool sweater vest. I know sweater vests are like kind of lame, but I'm predicting that sweater vests and t-shirt combos are gonna be in this fall. Stay tuned for a fall trends video, but I really like this and I haven't tucked into some black thrifted jeans that I also found, my little chain belt. It's really cool. So this shirt, major fine for fall. Super excited about it. Let's see, I haven't gone through this bag since I thrifted it, so let's see what's in here. This is something I've been looking, oh wait. It's just a strap. So also when I go thrifting, I don't know if you guys know this, but I said in one of my previous videos, I always look for straps, whether it be like from laptop bags, boot bags, any kind of straps because I use these when I'm making the bags that I sew. So I'm always trying to like find me some straps, so there's a strap in here. So my next item that I thrifted, I actually checked off a thrifting goal I've had for a while. My last pair of white denim jeans I outgrew, just got a little too, a little too thick for them. So I had to give them away, but I've been searching for another pair of white or off-white jeans for the longest time. And I think I found the perfect pair. They are these thrifted Liz Claiborne pants. They actually really do have a cool back tab, back tag, don't even know what it's called. But I like the colors in it. I mean, I don't really wear Liz Claiborne like that. But it is a thrifted pair of jeans. They fit really nicely, and I'm excited to style these for fall. I might distress the bottom, still haven't decided on that yet, but I really like to fit. For some reason, it's been really hard for me to find white or off-white jeans, so I was super stoked when I found these. Next up, we have some more jeans. Okay, so I found the Liz Claiborne jeans at Goodwill, I believe, yeah, because I have a blue tag. And I found these at my tried and true lash chance. These are just some nice dark wash denim. The fit is impeccable, literally almost the only reason I bought it. Definitely needs to be washed still. But I love the fit on these pants. I can cuff them, maybe even distress them. I was never really a big fan of dark wash, but recently I've been really into it. And these are A1. Whenever I'm searching for jeans in the thrift store, fit is a big deal for me. They have to fit right up here in the waist like I like them. They can't be too big or too small. Sometimes I like gamble and try to take them in my sewing machine and it works out for me. But the fit in the waist and the fit down the leg is really important to me. Because sometimes I'll find pants that fit in the waist, but are too big down my leg, or don't slim down enough for me in my leg. Those to pair when I put them on, it just felt right, so I had to scoop them up. So these next two items are not for me to wear. Personally, I thrifted them for material to make more cool things. I repurposed old dickies into bags. So I found these purple pair of dickies shorts, a size 34. So there's plenty of material. And then I also found these sky blue dickies shorts. And I think both of these will make great dickies bags. And honestly, I could probably work out two or three bags from each pair. Imagine that. I mean, I've already made a red one. You guys seen that? I made a basic khaki one. I have some navy ones over here too that I haven't really delved into. But I just thought these colors stood out too much for me not to pick them up. And they were half off because I went on Monday. And I think both of them were only like $4.99 to begin with. So what a steal, what a steal, what a steal. I was honestly thinking about making a tutorial for one of them. Wish me luck because sewing tutorials are very, very hard. But yeah, so I'm excited about these two pieces. I think they'll just make really cool bags to sell off. So the last item from this thrifting haul is also something that checked off a thrifting goal for me for a while. And that is this amazing leather crossbody bag. I don't believe it has a brand. Let me see. Oh, yes it does. It just says, is it BD design? Or, you know what? It doesn't really matter. But this is a crossbody leather bag. One of my good friends, Jeremy, has one similar to this. And as soon as I saw his, I was like, Oh my God, I need one. And actually what inspired me to make the Dickies bags in the first place was a leather Prada bag. One of my other friends, Brandon had thrifted it for so cheap. I've always wanted it like a leather Prada bag or just a Prada bag, a Prada crossbody bag in general. And when I saw his, I was like, that's so amazing. So I came home and I just made one out of what I had, which were a pair of Dickies. Then the next day I went to like a housewarming party and my friend Jeremy was there with this amazing crossbody leather bag. He found a Goodwill. This is a leather crossbody bag. I love it so much. There's so many cool compartments in it too. I definitely think it's going to compliment my fall wardrobe. And it's so handy. There's literally so many zippers. It's just like a zipper here. You open it up, you have a secret pouch. You have a normal pouch. You have like a zipper pouch in there to put something. You have another place to put something. Then the side unzips to make it wider. You even have zips in the back. I can put any and everything in here. This is definitely going to be a staple for me during the fall. I think it even compliments this outfit really well. I'm just obsessed. I want to put some pins on the front. I don't know what kind of pins yet because I don't want to be lame. I'm honestly thinking about my Insta and Twitter icon and making it into a button and putting that on here. But I think it's like it's purple and like purple doesn't really match with a lot of things. I'm honestly so excited about this bag. I don't even know like what to do yet but or how to wear it. I mean I'm wearing it right now but I haven't really won it out yet but it's amazing. The straps are adjustable so I can have it tighter and up here if I wanted to or further down if I wanted to. But I'm going to get so much use out of this and I'm extremely extremely happy, grateful, speechless that I found it because I've been looking for it for a while. So unfortunately that's all I found in my thrifting haul. All in all I think it was a pretty good thrifting haul. That all cost me I believe the leather bag and the two pairs of pants. Actually no the leather bag, the two dicky shorts and the dark denim pair of pants cost me $13 all together plus the straps I had. And then the sad part is because lash ants are so good I feel spoiled because the white pair of Liz Claiborne jeans cost me like $8 at Goodwill and I was like oh my god. I just got so much for $13 and now I gotta pay $8 for one pair of pants. So all together I spent around 21. 21? Yep. 21. That's not bad at all, especially for the two pairs of jeans and that leather bag that I'm going to wear like crazy. I'm really happy with this haul. I feel so chillaxed just like leaning on my bed like this. But I hope you guys enjoyed this week's video. It's been fun to come over here and film videos for you guys and have them up on time. I know I've probably said that in every video but I think I'm just like shocked at myself for being consistent because that's one thing I struggle with is time management. I struggle with balancing that so I think I'm doing a pretty good job so far. If I'm honored enough to have you stick around make sure you hit that subscribe button right down below. If you've twisted any cool things lately please let me know. You can tag me on Instagram or Twitter. I have a Twitter now everyone. Oh my god. I caved in. I used to hate Twitter. I think Twitter is like a open dire of everybody's problems so sometimes it can be very stupid but I've caved in. I've gotten a Twitter so I can share my photography work and things like that so you can also follow me on Twitter but feel free to tag me in your photos whether it be on Twitter or Instagram. I'd love to see the things that you guys find or make and you know I gotta say this you can give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. It really helped me out. Ever since I committed to doing YouTube full time it feels really good to be here so thank you guys so much for your support. If you know any friends out there looking for a new menswear blogger you can send them my way and I will see you guys in my next video. See you guys later.