hey do you guys remember what it was
like to travel
yeah i don't either good thing i have
some footage on my hard drive from the
last time i was in japan
when i was thrift shopping for white
clothes
that i could flip welcome to day four of
threatmas
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so when i was in japan last year i had
this mission and it was to head to don
don down in shibuya which is a very very
cheap thrift store
and i was only looking for white
clothing things that were my size things
that i really liked the shape of
but might need a little bit of spice
added to them to
pastelize them so behind me here i have
a whole bunch of white
clothing that i bought in japan i think
i spent about fifty dollars all up for
everything here behind me i'll show you
the items at the end of the video but
stay tuned and you can watch some thrift
shopping in japan footage
so this is don don down it's a store
located in shibuya and it's unusual
because the way that they price their
items is by putting a little tag on them
that looks like a type of fruit or
vegetable
so for example this is a mushroom priced
dress which means it's 900 yen or nine
us dollars
this is a banana t-shirt now
banana is a 15 t-shirt so
it's a little bit confusing because you
you have to keep asking yourself hang on
what is the price of a banana what's the
price of eggplant what is the price of
strawberry
but you do get a little piece of paper
when you walk in the store and it has
all of the prices written on it's like a
cheat sheet
so the way that this store works is
every day
they offer different prices for the
different fruit and vegetables
so the reason that the store is called
don don down
its full name is don don down on
wednesday and that is because on
wednesdays they offer the cheapest
prices for
everything but if you go on different
days
the different fruits and veg are
different prices if you go on a monday
for example
pumpkins might be a thousand yen but if
you go on a tuesday
pumpkins are 500 yen or if you go on a
wednesday they are
3 000 yen so the way that they price
their items is
well basically it's just a guessing game
really it's like a lottery
it's quite fun actually when you get in
the swing of things when you first walk
in you feel very very very confused
because you've never seen something
priced as
eggplant before this top was
watermelon so it was 500 yen now this
dress here
this looked stunning oh my god i was
absolutely in love with it but
it was twenty dollars it was
peach which was twenty dollars so i
obviously didn't buy it because uh oh
i'll actually look
back on it 20 bucks isn't that bad but
considering some of these other things
were literally two and three dollars
twenty dollars seemed like a lot at the
time
this store is really pretty because
they've categorized the whole thing into
different aesthetics
so right now i am standing in the kind
of
pastel kawaii section of the store where
everything here is
frilly and lacy and pretty and sparkly
and this is my favorite part of the
store to shop in
i loved this dress i i was literally
so happy when i saw it i could imagine
myself wearing it
i wanted it so bad but it was fifty
dollars
so um yeah it was a hard pass for me
a watermelon skirt though watermelon
does mean five dollars so i was very
tough to have found this one i just love
this place so much i love
all of the styles that they categorize
their things into they even have like a
goth punk section this look at this
can you believe how cute this is
i'm editing this video right now
and i can't believe i put that back
why didn't i buy it why
this skirt very nice but there were so
many skirts that it was very hard to
decide
i decided to choose one that was a bit
longer than the others because i figured
you can always make skirt shorter but
you can't make it longer
well i hoped you liked that little blast
from the past
so let's have a look at these items that
i bought and then i'm going to ask
you guys to tell me what you want me to
do to these pieces in order to flip them
so i'm gonna name each one of them it'll
be item one
two three and then if you have any great
ideas i want you to leave a comment down
below and say
hey for item number one i think that you
should do this
for item number two i think you should
dye it with beetroot juice
for item number three i think you should
stick a bunch of daisies on it
this is item number one this is a high
neck cropped t-shirt
it's a really unusual fabric it's almost
like waffle knit it's definitely like a
sporty kind of
fabric i think they make a lot of sports
shirts out of things like this i don't
know
what brand this is i can't read it i
don't know what it says if that's
familiar to you please let me know down
below
my initial thoughts were that because
this is such a boring kind of template
i could do so much to this like for
example i could change the neckline i
could cut it into a v-neck or i could
cut it straight down the back and do a
lace-up corset detail
or i could cut off the sleeves or i
could
leave it as it is and dye it and put
flowers on it at the end of this video
i'm going to show you some of the things
that i have available to me as far as
diy projects go i've got some
iron-on patches different colored
buttons so watch all the way to the end
and then come back and tell me
what things that you should put with
what clothing items but
this shirt nice and simple number two
was such a good find
now this is a brand called olive de
olive
this is more of a cream color than white
but it's this beautiful frilly skirt
it's a really nice length so i don't
have to worry about my modesty
it's got this layer here which is
actually a double layer on the
underneath we have
that's another layer again and then a
layer here
so it's four different layers of fabric
it's beautiful
and flowy i love the look of it it's got
these very fine little kind of polka
dots all over it
obviously this is beautiful as it is so
i don't want to go cutting it up or
changing the
style of it but i was thinking i could
probably dye this
a nice pastel color like lilac or pink
all right item number two so this is
from h m this is a little teeny teeny
tiny top i don't know what style you
call this is it a milk made top i'm not
sure
it's just linen fabric it's very very
thin it's off the shoulder
puffy sleeves it's already got a bunch
of daisies on it i know you guys are
probably thinking there's nothing wrong
with these clothes you don't need to
flip them
but look the whole purpose of this video
is for people that struggle to find
pastel clothes
people tell me all the time in the
comments oh alex there's no pastel
things in the thrift stores where i live
well i bet there's probably white things
so the whole point of this video is to
help people get inspired to
not always think that they can't find
clothes that
suit their style if you can find a piece
of white clothing you can pastelize it
very very easily to make it your style
item number four is a similar style top
as the last but much longer sleeves
these have super frilly sleeves on them
they're very very exaggerated it's got
lace
all along the top and there's a little
bit of elastic at the bottom here as
well this is
so so sheer you have to wear something
under it it's way too sheer
alright this next one this is a brand
called bubbles which i'm pretty sure is
a japanese brand
this is so unusual this is a white
t-shirt that
has some sort of harness built into it
i've never seen anything like this
before
the harness is actually sewn into the
shirt it's not just draped over the top
it's actually sewn on the side seams
here so you can't remove it i mean i can
remove it but
this is look without it it's a plain
white tee
and as much as i love that band plain
white t-shirts are kind of boring so
i do intend on retaining this
interesting harnessy kind of detail
but just have to figure out what to do
with it this could be a good candidate
for sewing beads on or something like
that
what do you think is it a good idea
all right this next one is so strange
so this is like net material completely
netted material this is super super
super long
it's very long and it has really really
long sleeves too
the first thing that came to mind with
this one was tie dye
i have to tie diet it would be illegal
for me to not tie-dye this
i look like i'm a sacrifice for a cult
hey no
mr mr heckems you stop leave me alone
don't be mean to me uh-uh
oh look at this look at this nasty bird
refuses to get up on my head no more
shoulder time
no more up no no more shoulder up
i have to show more clothing oh don't be
mean to me
up up no jumping faces
faces are out of bounds
yes good boy careful kev careful your
foot is stuck
careful careful okay all right so next
up this is a brand called dazzle
this is a just a plain dress i've seen
this design
many places it's nothing out of the
ordinary or nothing particularly special
i feel like every girl that i went
i feel like every girl i went to school
with in year 10 had a dress like this at
some point
this one to me i thought would be a good
one to do in yellow it has embroidered
flower details at the top here so
they could be cute to actually go over
the top of with different colored
thread potentially but tell me your
ideas down below
and then last but not least we have a
pair of white jeans
so the brand of these is called venus
jean
they have a little bit of a flared
bottom on them these i feel like these
are perfect to embroider something
on or i could possibly put things i
could put things all the way down the
leg
on these i'm not sure tell me what you
think but
as far as the clothing goes that's all
of the white clothing that i bought
while i was thrift shopping in japan
now if you cast your eyes over here i
have a selection of things here
that i can use to flip this clothing all
right
so the first thing an enormous hello
kitty
iron on patch i have two
archie has the attention span of a
goldfish funny because he's a parrot
so i have these enormous hello kitty
iron on patches which i actually think
would be better suited to
a denim jacket so i might have to save
these for another video about thrift
flipping
i have another one this one is shiny and
silver now by the way i got all of these
from aliexpress
oh my god i have these these are so cute
okay we have
this is a piece of pro nigiri we have
salmon nigiri tamagot nigiri which is
egg and i don't know the japanese name
of this one this is caviar
and i think this style of sushi is
called gunk um embroidered food
makes me happy beyond words speaking of
embroidered food i have six of these
little peach iron on patches
these are just beyond adorable oh my
gosh
i literally love them i also have the
same but
in strawberries i have six of these as
well some more sushi but this time
the sushi has little faces on it so it's
all the same style of sushi we have
salmon prawn and egg but these guys have
faces so they
are far superior they are sentient
a couple of little pokemon patches we
have evie and togepi
i have 18 of these glittery bows
now the reason that i got these was
because i have some hello kitty pants
that have bows going
all the way down the side of them and i
thought i could possibly put these
on the white jeans potentially going all
the way down the legs
all right i think these may very well be
my favorite
i have peach pocky banana pocky
and grape pocky so of each one i have
four so i've got four of the peach and
four of each
oh my god how amazing are these i feel
like putting
you know all of these on one piece of
clothing would be overkill a little bit
although it could be kind of fun to just
go ham and have like pocky patches all
over an entire article of clothing just
cover the whole thing in pocky patches
not sure because i'm always caught up in
mine i have a patch
that says feelings a cherry iron on
patch
and this yes guys this is
a hundred hello kitty patches of all
different shapes and styles
so i didn't get to choose what came in
this selection they just sent a random
selection but for example there's
five of this design five of this design
five of this design i feel like i'm
dealing cards right now like
show me your hand haha surprise it's
hello kitty five of this these are just
plain old hello kitty heads
five of the hello kitty angel she's pink
and she has a bow in her hair i think
this is my favorite one
five of this one holding what i think is
a black bow or maybe a black butterfly
five of this beach babe hello kitty she
is definitely an influencer look at her
look at her go
five of this one holding a love heart
with some little teddy bears
five of this holding the hibiscus
flowers
and the last one in the collection five
of this where she's holding this cute
little pink flower and she's got flowers
in her hair
now those are all the patches that i got
from aliexpress but then i also got a
bunch of things from daiso while i was
in japan
i got some sanrio buttons i've got six
that are gudetama
sitting in an egg i have six hello kitty
buttons
and i have three my melody buttons i got
these beautiful pastel buttons as well
from daiso and these are stunning i kind
of wish that i'd got a huge amount more
than what i got
they even sold pastel thread at daiso 2.
i got these things which i believe
are iron-on tags i think
i got these pastel beads these are
stunning they're kind of slightly
pearlescent and they're in blue white
and pink
and i also got some fabrics which i
thought could be really cute these for
example i could
cut a pocket shape out of this and then
sew it onto the
pants for example or i could even
maybe uh well i'm not creative in the
slider so i'm not sure
but these are two big cute pieces of
fabric that i could cut up
and sew onto the various clothing items
so that's it guys that's all the white
stuff that i bought in japan and all of
the things that i could possibly use
to alter them so tell me what you think
in the comments down below
pick an item of clothing pick some of
these cute embroidered patches or
buttons or various things and tell me
what you think i should do
so with that thank you guys so much for
watching and i'll see you tomorrow
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