French workwear ebay madness

[Flat Foot Floey]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290842492584?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1586.l2649

So... if Mr Freedom wants to open a new store....
Or a french version of Boardwalk Empire needs wardrobe for 200 extras...
Or a collector from Japan plans a new book....

Here is the stock.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Much of it completely knackered, which certainly seems to be the style in London at the moment.

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[Fastuni]

Might have been better to pick out the good condition parts and sell them separately from the majority of rags... and I'd think that the example photos show some of the better stuff.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

Yes, of course the show the better stuff. I imagine an awful lot of rags in that lot. But still...fascinating.

 

[DamianM]

CRAZY

Would be a huge nice investment

 

[Two Types]

The deadstock cream jacket is delightful. But they still make jackets that are virtually the same (or did a few years back) that could be found on every market in every provincial French town. I certainly wouldn't part with good money for something old, simply because it is old, if i could get the same but brand new for 10 euros (but I'm broke and am not a collector - so what does my opinion matter?).

 

[Two Types]

800 items at £8.74 each (approx). Looking at that figure there could be some profit in it for someone.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Yes it would be a good investment. For someone who has the money.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Amazingly, on London market stalls, the rags are priced higher than the NOS/deadstock pieces. The hobo look is in for the vintage crowd!

Might have been better to pick out the good condition parts and sell them separately from the majority of rags... and I'd think that the example photos show some of the better stuff.

 

[Two Types]

On that reckoning (that dressing in a deadman's rags is preferable to dressing in a deadman's well preserved clothes) there probably is room for someone to make a decent profit. I just don't get the whole 'hobo' thing.

 

[Fastuni]

They shall wear the rags. If that means that the well preserved stuff is available for us, I'm all for it.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I get it, and I love it. I really like how it looks. Maybe because in the majority of my family photos 'til the 40s most were dressed in shabby old clothes. I don't know. I just think the look is great - I don't feel comfortable wearing rags though.

Compo was always my favourite.

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[Flat Foot Floey]

The trend for patchwork hobo chic is not that new though. In japanese workwear mags from a few years back you already find stuff like this. Even "artisans" who take perfectly good jackets and waistcoats patch the **** out of them. [huh]

I don't have enough knowledge to date the items. Like two Types already mentioned the "bleu" jackets didn't change that much. I kinda prefer the colors other than blue anyway. Dark or light brown, black, grey...

I would be interested in a pair of the grey cinchback cotton pants. Stripes or salt & pepper. I don't think they come in my size often. I really need to lose some weight. *sigh*

 

[Fastuni]

Nothing against a bedraggled look if one keeps it honest.
Period "bread and butter" clothes with mends and alterations and some visible wear and fading surely is to me as wearable and charming as an exquisitely bespoke tailored "fancy" suit. I rather like the way the "lower classes" back then wore their (often pre-owned or overused) suits and clothes... but they tried to make the best out of what their modest means could afford.

It's different from urban "hobos" of relative affluence, trying to intentionally ruin good clothes or walking around like dug-up corpses.
Zombie-chic.

 

[Two Types]

I'm happy with old patched clothes, falling to pieces as I wear them. But I want the holes to be ones that I have made by working in them (on the very few rare occasions I do any manual labour).

 

[herringbonekid]

Much of it completely knackered, which certainly seems to be the style in London at the moment.

if you look at what is being sold in London you'd assume so, but i'm yet to see anyone walking around dressed like a French tramp (apart from the Japanese guys who work downstairs in Child of the Jago).