What is up with this online vintage store?

[belmondo]

1500 bucks for a perfectly ordinary 1960s suit?!! Is this site for real?! They have some nice stuff, and I know from experience that the price of good vintage varies from city to city, but 1500 for a Warren Sewell suit is absurd.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Which store? There are some truly absurd prices out there. Ordinary vintage suits aren't worth more than $150. For a special piece, maybe up to $300.

Unfortunately, vintage is currently quite trendy - esp. 60s, or so the dealers tell me - so the prices go up accordingly. Not to worry, they will come down again.

bk

 

[belmondo]

oops. it's this one http://www.kakkoiimono.com/moreInfo.asp?ii=4&t=39&k=&k1=&k2=&i=1776

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I get the impression (from the name and one of the press cuttings) that this is a Japanese vintage company. Prices there are ludicrous.

But then, there are London shops equally ludicrously priced.

bk

 

[Slim Portly]

Yikes! A "gold-tone" tie bar with a "tiny fake diamond" for $45? Rhinestone wrap cufflinks for $70?? A set of 1920s celluloid snap cufflinks for $185??!! Crikey, I have similar items that I picked up for $5 - $10 on eBay. Oh well, "A fool and his money..."

 

[cookie]

I get the impression (from the name and one of the press cuttings) that this is a Japanese vintage company. Prices there are ludicrous.

But then, there are London shops equally ludicrously priced.

bk

Correct... since most have sold stickers on 'em...

 

[LaMedicine]

I get the impression (from the name and one of the press cuttings) that this is a Japanese vintage company. bk

Kakkoiimono is US based, run by an American lady. Not sure, but I think she's somewhere on this board, or at least knows FL.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

They do have a lovely selection of 30s/40s suits, from which i will be culling pictures for the archives …

bk

 

[Warden]

I read an exciting articled on a vintage store in London.

So when I was last in the smoke I went along, rude staff and the oldest suit I could find had the words St Micheal inside it. Even then they wanted £150 for it.

Shame I was looking forward to another store to shop in.

Details of Bertie Woosters here

Harry

 

[Baron Kurtz]

The oldest suit you could find in Bertie Wooster was not old?

And the staff was rude? This is not the experience i've had. Saxby and his young gent helper-type apprentice-type are always very nice.

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Kakkoiimono is US based, run by an American lady. Not sure, but I think she's somewhere on this board, or at least knows FL.

That's interesting. The more absurd prices generally come from Japanese sites. Nice to see the US sites are getting in on the ridiculous side of the vintage market.

bk

 

[Jerekson]

That's interesting. The more absurd prices generally come from Japanese sites. Nice to see the US sites are getting in on the ridiculous side of the vintage market.

bk

Amen.

 

[resortes805]

It's the star appeal (Johnny Depp). The shoes on the site are awesome.

 

[The Wingnut]

Wow...those prices are ABSURD. Guess I just found someone that'll buy all the skinny '60s ties I've been digging up lately.

 

[Senator Jack]

Appealing to imbeciles. Nothing special about that suit to warrant $1500. Mohair 60s and Dupioni silk may fetch $250. Tuxedos slightly more in the higher end vintage shops.

 

[Justdog]

Probably worth it

oops. it's this one http://www.kakkoiimono.com/moreInfo.asp?ii=4&t=39&k=&k1=&k2=&i=1776

It is probably worth it because it has 1500 dollars in the still stiched pocket