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Vintage striped GUESS tees

I promised you vintage home goods and it’s only taken two newsletters before I deviated from that plan 🙃. Today, I’m here to talk about a vintage clothing niche — if that’s not your thing, please feel free to delete this email and pretend I was never in your inbox.

That being said, there are tips for shopping secondhand online at the end of this note that are relevant regardless of what you’re searching for.

Now, onto the secondhand hunt I got lost in the other day:

Just a fraction of the Instagram/TikTok/Pinterest striped shirts that have hijacked my ability to think for myself sartorially.

Striped shirts are nothing new, which begs the question (Carrie Bradshaw style) why would I bother buying one brand new?

The latest crop of boxy, oversized striped long sleeve tees I’ve been seeing has had me feeling lustful. And the final shove from “I want that” to “I need that” came from Kelly Klein’s

Wear It Like This

newsletter about styling a striped long sleeve (many a refreshing idea in there). While I wish I was impervious to the fleeting obsessions of fashion girlies on social media, I am decidedly not.

Fortunately, I can also be painfully frugal (I use the word “can” here instead of “am” because I also can be illogically extravagant). The frugality, though, is the quality that helped me tap into a very rich vein of niche secondhand striped shirts: vintage GUESS tees.

To match the inspo, we’re looking for a boxy body and a roomy cuff, nothing too tight to the wrist (though that certainly has its own merits, the shape of the moment seems to be drapey all over).

The search term: vintage mens GUESS striped long sleeve tee

The results: