<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Brokelyn &#187; vintage clothes</title> <atom:link href="http://www.brokelyn.com/tag/vintage-clothes/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.brokelyn.com</link> <description>Food, restaurants, shopping and cheap fun on a budget in Brooklyn NYC</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:52:12 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>New RAFFLE OF THE CENTURY prize: $50 at Guvnor&#8217;s Vintage Thrift</title><link>http://www.brokelyn.com/new-raffle-of-the-century-prize-50-at-guvnors-vintage-thrift/</link> <comments>http://www.brokelyn.com/new-raffle-of-the-century-prize-50-at-guvnors-vintage-thrift/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:20:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Lauren Cannon</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Park Slope/ Prospect Heights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[THE RAFFLE OF THE CENTURY]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guvnor's]]></category> <category><![CDATA[raffle of the century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[thrift stores]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vintage clothes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vintage stores]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=18212</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Opening night in March. Granted, you hear the word &#8216;thrift,&#8217; and &#8216;luxury item&#8217; isn&#8217;t the first thing that comes to mind. But what if you forget those ratty t-shirts and stained corduroys, and think Vintage? Vintage as in fashion time-machine catered to the innate style of the pin-up  fashionista on a budget. That is Park [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><div id="attachment_18361" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 260px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-18361" title="guvnorscrop" src="http://www.brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/guvnorscrop-250x206.jpg" alt="Opening night in March." width="250" height="206" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Opening night in March.</p></div><p>Granted, you hear the word &#8216;thrift,&#8217; and &#8216;luxury item&#8217; isn&#8217;t the first thing that comes to mind. But what if you forget those ratty t-shirts and stained corduroys, and think Vintage? Vintage as in fashion time-machine catered to the innate style of the pin-up  fashionista on a budget. <em>That</em> is Park Slope&#8217;s <a href="http://www.guvnorsnyc.com/">Guvnor&#8217;s Vintage Thrift</a>. And that&#8217;s why they, and their $50 gift certificate, are part of <a href="http://www.brokelyn.com/announcing-brokelyns-first-birthday-bash/" target="_self">THE RAFFLE OF THE CENTURY</a> on June 10. And ladies, since you&#8217;re trying to look like a million bucks for the night, Guvnor&#8217;s might be a good place to start this weekend.<span id="more-18212"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Owner Suzette Sundae previously manned the thrift shop Monkey Whistles &amp; Motorbikes and ran her own outfit in the East Village, Suzette Sundae, which sold a private label line, vintage fashions and pieces from emerging designers. Guvnor&#8217;s, newly opened this spring, provides on-site tailoring for their clothes, and offers a BUY-SELL-TRADE program that will net you 35 percent of the retail price in cash or 55 percent for store credit. But most of the stock is straight from the vintage wholesale warehouses through which Suzette carefully combs.</p><p style="text-align: left;">You might find a pair of white canvass knee-high boots with black  lacing and thick black soles. Or maybe a  form-fitting satin evening  dress with red sequined trim, the bottom suspended by a cloud of frilly  mesh reminiscent of the sock-hop dances of yesteryear, when Bettie Page was a beauty and Buddy Holly ruled the airwaves.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Or you could go for the black &amp; chrome Harley cruiser for sale in the store (great with those boots). A friend of Suzette&#8217;s gave it to her.  Feel free to put down your gift certificate as partial payment on its $5,500.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><em>The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110709552307088&amp;ref=mf" target="_self">First Annual Brokelyn Charity Ball</a> will be held June   10 from 7 to 11 at at Night Owl in Williamsburg, 160 N. 4th St. at   Bedford Ave.</em></p><p><br style="clear:both;" /></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.brokelyn.com/new-raffle-of-the-century-prize-50-at-guvnors-vintage-thrift/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Holy plaid pants—Canal Jeans lives on in Brooklyn!</title><link>http://www.brokelyn.com/canal-jean-lives-on-in-brooklyn/</link> <comments>http://www.brokelyn.com/canal-jean-lives-on-in-brooklyn/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:01:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Faye</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Ditmas Park/ Midwood/ Flatbush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shopping]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Canal Jean Company]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Levi's]]></category> <category><![CDATA[t-shirts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vintage clothes]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=2183</guid> <description><![CDATA[Non-ironic &#39;70s kids&#39; pants: 3 for $25. Those who thought Canal Jeans had vanished from the city&#8217;s radar in 2002 were only partially right. Since the Broadway location shuttered, it&#8217;s no longer a closet-refilling station for NYU students and New Jersey high-school kids dying to land &#8220;most individualistic&#8221; in their class superlatives. (Do they still have those?) [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_2186" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 260px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2186" title="canal-jeans-flares" src="http://www.brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/canal-jeans-flares-250x167.jpg" alt="Non-ironic polyester kids' pants: 3 for $25." width="250" height="167" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Non-ironic &#39;70s kids&#39; pants: 3 for $25.</p></div><p>Those who thought Canal Jeans had vanished from the city&#8217;s radar in 2002 were only partially right.</p><p>Since the Broadway location shuttered, it&#8217;s no longer a closet-refilling station for NYU students and New Jersey high-school kids dying to land &#8220;most individualistic&#8221; in their class superlatives. (Do they still have those?) But Canal Jeans, or at least an intriguingly decrepit version of it, lives on behind the Target on Nostrand Avenue, and it remains a place where the adventurous budgeteer could come away with a bag full of finds, if not an afternoon&#8217;s amusement.<span id="more-2183"></span></p><p>For those who wander in unwittingly, easy enough to do since there&#8217;s no sign, an appropriate response is: WTF? When the Manhattan store shut down in 2002, they took whatever was left unsold—a combination of new and vintage goods—and sent it to this nondescript two-floor space (below) across from what is now the Target parking garage and next to a dubious-sounding beef retailer called &#8220;Meat Barn.&#8221; The Brooklyn Canal Jeans is apparently not well-known. &#8220;Am I the only person in New York whose is aware that this place still exists??&#8221; wrote the lone reviewer on Yelp, saying the place resembled &#8220;Moscow, circa 1985.&#8221; Pretty much, except they had bread lines and here there isn&#8217;t another soul around.</p><p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2202" title="canal-jeans-exterior" src="http://www.brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/canal-jeans-exterior-250x167.jpg" alt="canal-jeans-exterior" width="250" height="167" /></p><p>The Canal staff say they don&#8217;t get new stock, and are only around until they sell off all of the old stuff. But how to explain a Bionicles costume that had a Target label dated 2005, originally $24.99, marked down to $10, marked down to $1.99, and sold to a happy 6-year-old customer for $1, along with a cape and a mask, also a buck each?</p><p>Clothing-wise, the 10-for-$5 bins are full of Reagan-era relics: long-sleeve polo shirts that button all the way down, t-shirts cut off above the navel, but there are also Smith carpenter jeans and Levi&#8217;s for $10, along with racks of bookish camel blazers, 3 for $25. And what St. Ann&#8217;s parent wouldn&#8217;t beam with pride to send his shaggy-haired moppet off to school in a pair of vintage &#8217;70s plaid slacks just like dad used to wear?  But wait, there&#8217;s more&#8230;</p><p></p><p>How can there not be a single cute dress in this $5 rack? How about the red-and-white one all the way left?</p><p></p><p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2187" title="canal-jeans-dresses" src="http://www.brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/canal-jeans-dresses.jpg" alt="canal-jeans-dresses" width="600" height="401" /></p><p></p><p>Do red tiger-print stovepipe jeans ever go out of style in BK? They say $25—what is this, Bergdorf&#8217;s?—but go ahead, make an offer.</p><p></p><p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2206" title="canal-jeans-tiger-jeans" src="http://www.brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/canal-jeans-tiger-jeans.jpg" alt="canal-jeans-tiger-jeans" width="600" height="401" /></p><p>At 2 for $5, the polyester lemon-yellow golf trousers come out to $2.50 each. OK, so there are about three skinny gay guys in Williamsburg who could get away with these, but if you&#8217;re out there&#8230;</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-2191 aligncenter" title="canal-jeans-yellow-2" src="http://www.brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/canal-jeans-yellow-2.jpg" alt="canal-jeans-yellow-2" width="600" height="401" /></p><p></p><p>From this angle, they look almost Meatpacking District-worthy. Chic blackout curtains?</p><p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2211" title="canal-street-yellow-pants-3" src="http://www.brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/canal-street-yellow-pants-3.jpg" alt="canal-street-yellow-pants-3" width="600" height="401" /></p><p>It&#8217;s important to note that you will pass items like this:</p><p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2192" title="canal-jeans-ugly-jacket" src="http://www.brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/canal-jeans-ugly-jacket.jpg" alt="canal-jeans-ugly-jacket" width="600" height="754" /></p><p>Apparently it didn&#8217;t even sell in Moscow.<em><strong> Canal Jean Company</strong>, 2236 Nostrand Ave. between H &amp; I,  718-421-7590</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><p><br style="clear:both;" /></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.brokelyn.com/canal-jean-lives-on-in-brooklyn/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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