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Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
"Father has a business strictly secondhand
Everything from toothpicks to a baby grand
Stuff in our apartment came from father's store
Even things I'm wearing someone wore before
It's no wonder that I feel abused
I never get a thing that ain't been used
I’m wearing secondhand hats
Secondhand clothes
That’s why they call me
Secondhand Rose
Even our piano in the parlor
Father bought for ten cents on the dollar
Secondhand curls
I'm wearing secondhand pearls
I never get a single thing that's new
Even Jake the Plummer, he's the man I adore
Had the nerve to tell me he's been married before!
Everyone knows that I'm just Secondhand Rose
From Second Avenue..." Hanley & Clarke
Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
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Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
Grandma's new apartment (1920-1922), Parc Imstenrade.
Grandma was talking to a friend who's about to decorate her first home. Things you Should Know Before decorating your first home.
1. Buy your big pieces of furniture secondhand: This is not just about saving money, it's also about how your style will change as you learn what you like and don't like. Don't spend a lot on a piece by justifying that it's a piece you've always wanted and an investment in your future. The likelihood is that your style will go through three or four metamorphoses before it settles into something that's you.
2. Reconsider before you reject: When you move into your first place, people will often be so excited for you that they'll want to gift you with some of their old stuff (or they may just be trying to get rid of it!). Before you turn up your nose at it or toss it, make a list of inexpensive changes you might make to it. You might reupholster an old couch or paint its frame a shocking pink, remove a skirt or add a pillow or six. Not only will this save you money, it will hone your ability to look at a piece in a flea market or antique shop and see its potential.
3. Inspiration boards are not always good for decorating your first space: I know that goes against everything we're always talking about but I've found that trying to recreate someone else's room in your first space, a space that will go through a lot of transitions, ends up costing you a lot in time and money.
4. Embrace the serendipity: Your first home will not be perfect. There will be odd chairs around your table, a couch that's a lot fussier than your ideal -- and that is exactly how it should be. You're learning what you like to live with, not just what you like in a picture.
5. Paint is your best friend: You can paint a wall or a piece of furniture, dip the legs of your mismatched chairs in paint to unify them or paint a block of color behind your bed to act as a faux headboard.
6. Accent walls are your decor secret: You don't have to paint the whole room. One wall is plenty and as much as most people have patience for. It's also easy to change it up if you get bored or don't like the color.
7. Friday is move your furniture around day: Okay, maybe not every Friday but at least once every few weeks try a new arrangement. Sometimes the most unexpected arrangements work the best. This is great fun to do with friends!
8. Let your home annoy you: It's tempting, after a day of looking at decor mags and blogs, to want to fix everything in your apartment, especially when it comes to storage issues. But instead of trying to solve it immediately (which usually involves buying a lot of storage containers), live with the problem for a while. Often you'll happen upon a better solution that will end up being cheaper and simpler. Which brings me to the biggest lesson.
9. Live with as little as you can. It's tempting, when you first live alone to want to get all that stuff you've been eyeing for ages. Yes, you may be a home decor nut but, instead of buying every pillow and flowerpot you see, take a picture of it, pin it to your Pinterest board or post it on your blog. Just wait a few years or a few months and your home will have accumulated plenty and you'll spend weekends trying to cull it. Embrace the minimal while you can.
John Vesely, AKA Secondhand Serenade.
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"Today's theme is the color blue. Blue sky. Blue plate. Blue M&Ms. Make a photo of something blue and post it today."
Shot outside of a secondhand store in Worcester, MA.
Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
Sitting in a chair waiting for my wife to try on clothes I studied these patterns for a while and it occurred to me to take a picture.
Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
I bought:
Black Haori (3000)
Pale Green Haori (1000)
White/Black Kimono (5000)
Green/Blue Kimono (2000)
Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)
White Tabi Socks (1000)
Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)
There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.
The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.
john benson's workshop. donated equipment that he fixes or uses for parts to fix people's chairs, in Berkeley and Oakland
Red linen 50s (am I right on this?) swimming costume with elasticized ruching in the back, built-in bra cups in the front. Perfect for a picnic in a city with warmer summers. Instead I wore it with platform shoes around Vegas last summer. Alameda Flea Market a year and a half ago, $15.
Brandy shredded up pieces of the original 20 thrift store album covers and created this new psychedelic collage cover.
Pictued in Windsor is GNV 978N a former UC Bedford YRQ, one of 35 that only lasted 7 years with its first owner, alonr with 25 longer YRTs. By July 85 it had passed to Moores for town work, note the exact fare display common at this time
The Triotar 135 mm f4, Carl Zeiss Jena, M42 mount.
The Triotar is composed of only three lenses: one positive, one negative lenses followed by a diaphragm, then by a positive lens. (I guess the four reflected light source images that can be seen in this picuture come from the four lens-air interfaces of the two front lenses. Is this guess correct?)
Former Southern Vectis TDL 420S is here with Caroline Seagull in Gt Yarmouth, taken in Aug 89, its seen with a Midland Fox picking up on the lay by after a day trip. TDL 420S was one of a small batch of Bedfords with Dominant coachwork purchased by NBC in the late 70's.
One of those funny old baskets made with paper pictures, covered with plastic and woven together at the sides with plastic cord. What are they called? What era are they from? Anyone?
Grantham is hardly the most lucrative bus territory but Centrebus was updating the fleet with some judicious secondhand purchases.
BU16UWP is an Volvo B8RLE/MCV Evolution 2 that was new to Roberts Travel for Leicester Park and Ride; it later moved from Centrebus to Chaserider. Meanwhile e400 SN13CHZ was a former Yellow Buses machine that Centrebus purchased after that business failed. Grantham bus station is an underwhelming location.
A quick search on Google suggests I may be one of the only people who remembers this magazine, but it remains one of my favourite titles. I bought the first issue by chance when it came out at the age of 12 (I remember exactly where - Martins on Market Hill in Sudbury) and continued to get it every month until it stopped in 1985 and 'merged' with sister Link House title Cars & Car Conversions. By merged I mean the usual practice of keeping the name on the cover for a while before gradually forgetting it.
At the age of 12 and with rather more time on my hands than I have now, I devoured every word and looking back through it now even the ad's are very familiar. Link House already published Custom Car and Cars & Car Conversions, both long-established, and I suppose it seemed like this would fill a small gap between the two. Maybe a precursor of Practical Performance Car?
It had a humorous approach and dealt with a wide range of cars both old and new and motorsports, with the emphasis very much on the accessible and down-to-earth. Autograss was a particular favourite of theirs.
I loved the Hot Options series, where they ran through a series of modifications for popular cars with a budget of up to £1500, and would create lists of my own from their adverts.
Secondhand Performance was another good one, and the prices they suggest for some of the cars featured would nowadays seem an outrageous bargain - £1000-1500 for a Lotus Cortina?!
Advertisers included Mini Sport, Quip, Compomotive and Ripspeed (before they got taken-over by Halfords).
Someone else must surely remember it?
In the background is my very first iPhone of 2007. The other one is my most recent acquisition, a secondhand iPhone 13 Mini in like-new condition. I bought this only a few days ago (January 2025) to replace my iPhone SE of 2016, which still worked just fine. I would have been very happy to keep it for a few more years at least, but programmed obsolescence (darn! they’ve even come up with a fancy name for “scr**wing you in the butt”) had hit it, it couldn’t be updated to the latest versions of the operating system, and therefore many applications that also couldn’t be updated were beginning to have problems, freeze or quit, etc.
Well, you do know the type of things electronics manufacturers do to force you, the consumer, to discard their products and buy newer ones. Apple are no better than the others (who said “they’re worse!” over there in the back?).
Anyway, I was looking for the smallest, more recent iPhone in existence, and that’s how I found the 13 Mini. It is not “mini” by any stretch of the imagination (or maybe it is if you look at how enormous and ugly “Mini” cars are today), it is in fact significantly larger than my SE, yet it remains more manageable than the brick-sized slabs they try to sell you today and pretend they are telephones... And I liked the dark blue back, so I bought it.
Strobist and technical: One Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in backlit axial position, 0.5 meters from subject and 1.5 meters above it, equipped with a standard reflector and firing at 1/6 power through triple sheet of tracing paper; another Indra500 in lateral position to camera right, 1 meter from subject and slightly in front of it, firing through a Luxlight 140 × 30-cm strip box with single diffuser; one Phottix Pro Mtrois+ cobra flash on a Profoto light stand to camera left, 1 meter from subject and at the same height, firing at ½ power through a 22 × 22-cm Lastolite “Joe McNally Ezybox” softbox with double diffuser; finally, a white card 0.3 meter from subject to camera right and at the same height, bouncing the light from the Mitros+. Black paper backdrop and background, plus a black perspex plate as background.
Strobes set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the Nikon Z7 II hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Gitzo GT3543 XLS tripod with Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Nikon Z7 II camera body, Nikkor Z 135mm, ƒ/1.8 S Plenalens. Single exposure.