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today's video has been a
long time in the making and when i say a
long time i mean a very
very long time and by a long time i
don't just mean weeks i don't just mean
months i mean quite literally well over
a year
so last year i posted a brandy melville
haul and in that haul i was comparing a
lot of the clothes from brandy melville
to clothes that you could very easily
find at a thrift store
now i have a lot of thoughts in regards
to brandy melville as a brand and i
recommend that you check out that video
maybe before you watch this one because
i kind of want to preface this with my
thoughts about the brand and their
inclusivity
in sizing and things like that and also
their price point and all that
the link is in the description below if
you haven't already watched it
but uh a quick like tldr is basically
that
i had heard about brandy melville but i
didn't really know much about it i just
heard the name a lot and i was
holidaying in hawaii and i walked past
the brandy melville store and i thought
oh
lots of people have been leaving
comments about that brand i'll buy some
stuff
so i bought a whole bunch of things and
i came home and when i was going to
upload the video about
it i did a bit of research i kind of
realized that they really only cater to
a very very small
size category they say one size fits
most most like toddlers maybe
their sizing is very small and also
their stuff is kind of pricey too
and it's not the best quality for what
they're charging and
i had a lot of thoughts so check out the
video if you haven't already but
basically
in that video as i was trying the items
on i would be like oh this is a nice
cute t-shirt but i feel like i've
seen this at a thrift store before or
i'd put in a pair of pants and be like
i paid 60 dollars for these but i know
i've seen these pants at a thrift store
for five dollars
and that inspired me to want to go
thrifting for brandy melville style
clothes
so when i went to japan at the end of
last year in december i think it was
i challenged myself to try and buy a
bunch of clothes
just like what they sell on brandy
melville so i basically wrote a little
list for myself and i was like i need
corduroy pants i need a stripy t-shirt i
need a crew neck t-shirt i need a
turtleneck you know i wrote a list and i
tried to find all of those things at
thrift stores and
while i didn't find exactly everything
that i wanted i got
really really close so in today's video
i have a pile here of brandy melville
clothing
and thrifted clothing all of the
clothing in this pile i bought in japan
and none of it cost me more than ten
dollars
most of it was between five and ten like
my big rule was i didn't want to pay any
more than ten dollars for the clothing
now i don't have all of the prices on
everything because in japan
one of the things that they do when you
buy at thrift stores they always snip
off the prices and then they keep the
price tags i think that they recycle
them japan's really big on recycling so
they kept all of the price tags
so i don't have the exact price tags for
every item but my rule when i was
shopping was that i wasn't going to pay
more than 10
so everything i show you that thrifted
is under 10
now the stores that i shopped at i will
put some links below about the
thrift stores that i like to visit when
i'm in japan obviously no one's gonna be
sort of traveling there for a little
while but hey you can write a list of
the places that you want to go to one
day when we can all travel safely again
so with that let's finally try on these
clothes that have literally been sitting
in a suitcase for a year yes i'm a
professional procrastinator
wait wait before i do i need to show you
something
look i thrifted this today
isn't it glorious forty dollars for this
beautiful corner shelf and the reason
that i got it if you saw
uh my video about decorating my guest
bedroom using only thrifted items
i the one thing that i was missing was a
shelf
for this corner over here so i was using
this like kmart shelf but
i have a thrifted one now ah
look at that fit like a finger and a
nose
all right so i'm starting this off in
the easiest way possible with this top
from brandy melville
this is pretty simple a black t-shirt
with stripey sleeves underneath
now this top is all in one the the long
sleeves are sewn into the cropped
tee and look this is literally the
easiest look to thrift because
no matter what thrift store you go into
you're always going to find a black
t-shirt
always and finding stripy long sleeve
shirts is very very easy too
so here's the thrifted version literally
doesn't get much simpler than this
so the t-shirt is actually a very very
long t-shirt i just tied it up at the
back to make it look like a crop
and to be 100 honest this is 10 times
more comfortable than the brandy one
this top underneath is actually from
uniqlo japan and it is
so soft it's beautiful to wear and
look this is this is just a plain
t-shirt just a black t-shirt and it was
literally 100 yen
that's a dollar if this is your
aesthetic you know
you know you can thrift it all right so
this next top i did think that i would
have a little bit of an easier time
finding something like this at a thrift
store
this is the brandy melville top and i
love this one i wear it all the time
it's a collared
button-up shirt and i know that i've
seen
white shirts like this in thrift stores
in australia but i couldn't find
something exactly like this in japan but
what i did find
was this now this is a shirt that's made
in japan
and it feels lovely obviously the
buttons don't go all the way to the
bottom like what the brandy one did but
it does still have that same color so
you get that same sort of look
the brandy one was obviously like
cropped and it was also quite tight
so this is look i feel like this would
be a pretty easy thrift flip
if i wanted to turn this into a cropped
top like the brandy one
but i actually really like the relaxed
fit it's much more comfortable for me to
wear a shirt like this than a cropped
one that shows my belly button so this
might not be
my aesthetic or my personal vibe to wear
something like this but
it does seem right up the brandy
melville alley and
there were so many tops like this at the
store it was literally a rack
of button-up collared t-shirts and they
came in all different colors too
i just didn't find a white one i would
have been very happy if i found a white
one but look
let's not get too specific i don't need
to go exactly item for item i'm just
trying to get the general
vibe and like this sort of top it's
all over brandy melville it's all over
their instagram account
very easy to thrift something like this
too all right bear with me here this is
the point in the video where you need to
put on your abstract thinking caps
because
i couldn't find a cropped stripy t-shirt
in japan i looked very hard i looked in
like 10 different thrift stores and i
couldn't find exactly what i wanted
but i did find this and i know that it's
obviously not pink and white and it's
not a
t-shirt it's a turtleneck but you you
get the point right like
i was thrifting for something that was
colorful and stripy and cropped
and i found it this was five dollars 500
yen so technically like seven australian
dollars but like
five us dollars the brandy melville
cropped t-shirt
was 20 us dollars so like nearly 30
australian dollars and this is so much
nicer
this is beautiful fabric it's really
really warm super cozy
i really like the lettuce trim around
the neckline and it's got lettuce trim
around here too
this is just oh it's so adorable i'm so
happy and this is super brandy too like
literally cropped striped with jeans
big brandy vibes red so on the topic of
cropped and striped
this brandy melville top was 25 us
dollars while i tried to thrift
something like this i couldn't find
exactly you know this color scheme or
anything but i got pretty close this was
another five dollar thrifted item and
the reason that i picked this as the
comparison for that top is because
this just like that top has the same
sort of collar and it's got buttons
running all the way down
this is beautiful i can't even begin to
explain like how
luxurious the fabric is it's got ribbed
sleeves and they're super super stretchy
it's so comfortable and it feels very
very well made this is another item
that's made in japan
the brand is written in japanese so i
can't tell you what it is but i got this
for five dollars and this is
literally a thousand times nicer than
any item from brandy melville it's
exactly the same sort of vibes though
there's a hundred items on brandy
melville that are this sort of style
whether they're long sleeve or short
sleeved
button up where you can wear them fully
buttoned up or you can wear it slightly
unbuttoned which is the more casual vibe
that they give off at brandy melville
but this was
so easy to find literally one of the
first stores that i walked into they had
a sale rack where everything was 500 yen
and this was one of the items
and when i picked it up i was like if
that was on brandy millville that that'd
be like 50 bucks because it's made
so well it's lovely and so far in this
video at least i think
that the thrift stores are taking a
giant dump on our friend brandy now one
of my favorite items from my brandy
melville hall
is this top i have worn this a lot this
is a
ribbed what do you call this crop to
long-sleeve
tea tea long-sleeve it's not a cardigan
anyway you can you can literally see
what it is i don't need to tell you what
it is
so this one i wear this a lot from
brandy and i think that this was like 35
from memory and what i found to try to
replicate it
was this now i know that this isn't it's
not
even like the same thing at all the
other thing was
like a v-neck with long sleeves and
didn't button up and this is obviously
like a cardigan that literally has like
a little clasp here holding it together
but the reason that i picked this is
because it's pink and it's ribbed
and also i know that i've seen cardigans
like this on brandy melville you know
the ones where they will just like tie
it up just here
with like a little bow or something now
this this was the only item that still
had its tag on this is from modof and it
was
300 yen this top is delightful
like it's got these beautiful sleeves
they're kind of like you know frilly
around here it's got a really really
nice sort of frilly neckline like this
and the frills continue
all the way down here and it's so soft
and it's super
super suit look look how stretchy it is
it's super stretchy
it's so comfortable and the color the
color is adorable
i'd pick this shade of pink over this
shade of pink any day
and i'm gonna pair this top with this
skirt now
this skirt is supposed to be the
equivalent of this skirt
i wear this skirt a lot and uh actually
i wore it out to japanese food recently
and i spilled soy sauce on it so that
skirt is currently
in the wash right now but that's
definitely one of my favorite purchases
from brandy melville i think it's so
pretty
and i managed to thrift this one for two
dollars
i got this at don don down in shibuya
which is a really cool thrift store that
basically gives different prices every
day
the full name of the store is don don
down on wednesday because on wednesday
that's when
everything is the cheapest so i went on
a wednesday and i got this skirt for 200
yen
the skirt is absolutely glorious
it's got a really nice thick slip
underneath it already built in
it's got these really cute buttons on
the back i don't know if you'll be able
to see
can you see the buttons are like what
makes it super special to me i think
they're really cute
it's really flowy and so comfortable and
a nice length and it sits really really
nice and high on my waist up here
and it creates a really nice silhouette
and oh
i love it this is like one of my
favorite thrifted things
long skirts with flowers like little
teeny tiny flowers on them i just i love
them so much
and this skirt was such a find and
i think it's even better than the brandy
one because the brandy one was very very
thin
this one is super thick literally a
fraction of the price
the same sort of style still looks
really nice with the same top this is
the top that i paired with the brandy
skirt
i think i really nailed it with this one
all right so these pink corduroy pants
from brandy melville were one of my
favorite things that i got in that video
these were kind of expensive i don't
remember the exact number but i think
they were like 50
or something and i know i've often seen
corduroy pants when i've gone through
shopping
but i didn't expect to find corduroy
pants as good as the ones that i found
the brand on these says american rag and
these
were ten dollars i remember specifically
that they were ten dollars because i
thought
oh these are the most expensive thing
for my video they're ten bucks
they're like a really thick chunky blue
corduroy and when i say chunky i mean
like very
very chunky look how thick this corduroy
is it's so cool
they are so soft they look like
something from the ragged priest
or um oh god what's the brand there's
this brand that i've been very tempted
to buy corduroy pants from for ages but
the pants are kind of expensive
obviously the difference between these
and the brandy ones these are wide leg
but the brandy ones were like a narrow a
slim
fit but these have really really nice
big
pockets the only thing about them is i
wish that they had a belt hole
i thrifted this belt this was a dollar
and okay
how's that does that kind of bring the
whole thing together i'm
literally obsessed with these pants
i don't know the brand i've never heard
of it before american rag i'm not sure
if it's actually an american brand or if
like it's a japanese brand
and they have just stolen the word
america because it's popular to
have america on things you know like
american apparel or french connection
it's like
trendy to put a country name in a brand
even if your brand is not from that
country i don't know
have you guys heard of american rag
before anyway i would be willing to say
that american rag is an expensive brand
because these pants
are made so well so well
these are definitely going into my list
of favorite things i've ever thrifted
i really like the vibe of this outfit
the whole thing thrifted by the way when
i was putting on this black t-shirt i've
noticed the brand is actually h
m so h m for the top uniqlo for this one
american rag for these pants i don't
know what brand the belt is but like
this whole thing was thrifted and
hang on if the pants were 10 and i think
that this was no more than like 5
10 let's say this whole outfit was 15
from a thrift store 15 wouldn't even get
you a plain black t-shirt at brandy
melville
so once again thrift store is winning
oh and let me just complete this look
with this this was also ten dollars from
one of the thrift stores this brand is
herschel and it's a it's a coca-cola
bucket hat
does that complete the look what can i
say
so this outfit like 25 this whole thing
head to toe
thrifted and i think it looks better
than anything that i've got from brandy
because the pants are like
a thousand times nicer than the brandy
pads they're made
so well winning
and the last thing that's basically a
brandy melville staple
is anything plaid they always have plaid
tops plaid skirts plaid pants plaid
jackets
and these plaid pants were from the
brandy hall and i managed to find
these pants while i was drifting in
japan now these are forever 21 they're
super long look they go all the way down
to my feet which
always makes me so happy obviously the
brandy melville pants they were green
plaid and these are blue and the plaid
is like a
you know thicker squares than what the
brandy ones were but these are way
cooler these are more comfortable and
even though they're forever 21 and
forever 21 is kind of like a cheap brand
these feel much
much much better made than the brandy
ones these were like
eight dollars i think they were when i
thrifted them they are a little bit
too big for me so i either might have to
take these in
a little bit or maybe i'll just wear
them with a belt or something but you
get the point
these are so cool and once again
managed to thrift the same sort of thing
now if you watched my dark academia haul
i actually had the hardest time
thrifting plaid pants in australia but
when i was in japan
i found them in every thrift store that
i went to i feel like
in japan and korea plaid is like a
really big thing
at least at the moment and it's all over
yes style every time i'm shopping on yes
style there's always plaid pants
all over that side so i'm not surprised
that when i was in japan i was able to
find plaid a lot easier than i found it
in australian thrift stores
but these pants are like some of my
favorite pants now i absolutely adore
them i actually
didn't believe that they were forever 21
when i picked them up at the store i
thought that i'd like hit the jackpot
with some really expensive brand because
they feel really nice they're super
super thick and they're so
comfortable these zip up at the side so
they're very easy to get on and off and
there's no buttons or anything to worry
about there's no fly at the front to
worry about
so these once again go into like the top
category of like really really good
things that i have thrifted so guys
that's it that's everything
i hope that you liked this video and if
you enjoy this style of like picking a
brand and then trying to thrift the
clothes that match that brand's
aesthetic
then let me know in the comments down
below and tell me which brand that you
want me to try next
so for example maybe fashion nova or
something like fashion nova has that
really distinctive kind of like very
tight
bougie sexy kind of style if you want to
see me thrift clothes that match any
other popular brand let me know in the
comment section down below it was so
much fun to try and find these things i
just wrote up a list of like the classic
looks and the classic items that they
sell on brandy and it was so easy
to thrift and find matching items so
tell me down below what you want me to
try out next and also tell me which
piece was your favorite
i personally i really like this i really
like the corduroy pants
i really like the skirt i liked
everything that i got and every single
thing
that i bought thrifted was 10 times
better quality than anything from brandy
melville
and also brandy melville has that one
size fits most bull
thing going on but when you're thrifting
it's much easier to find a variation of
sizes
when you're thrift shopping so with that
if you liked today's video please give
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already i hope you enjoyed day 23 of
thriftmas and with that
thank you guys so much for watching and
i'll see you tomorrow
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