Name: $350 DARK ACADEMIA CLOTHING HAUL | THRIFT SHOPPING FOR DARK ACADEMIA OUTFITS!!! THRIFTMAS DAY 11
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It's a style I'm not particularly familiar with, but I'm going to give it my best shot today.

I took to Twitter and I asked people, please send me your favourite photos of dark academia-inspired outfits.

And now I'm going to take said photos, and they're going to inspire me while I'm at the thrift store.

I believe what I'm going to be looking for today are things like white turtlenecks, brown tweed jackets, beige trench coats, clad pants, leather belts, leather satchel bags, brown loafer-style shoes, I think, or at least brown school shoes or boots.

So with that, let's head to the thrift store.

Well, that took a hot minute to park, but hey, we're here now.

Alright, so I'm starting off at Lifeline.

This Lifeline doesn't have a massive selection of homewares, but it does have a huge amount of clothing, and it's pretty reasonably priced too.

Alright, well, things didn't go quite as well as I thought they would.

I found a couple of things that would have suited the theme, but they were kind of expensive.

But I did manage to walk out with one thing, this bag.

And all the ladies at the counter were raving about how lovely it was, and they thought it was a really reasonable price too.

It's leather, it's 110% vintage, without a doubt.

Anyway, I'm going to head downstairs now to Vinnie's.

This is turning out much harder than I thought it was going to be.

I really thought, I really thought I would go to two stores and I would come away with 10 different dark academia outfits, but here we are.

So I think that I'm going to have to head out to a different store, a different area entirely, and try my luck elsewhere.

Alright, I've just pulled up outside the Vinnie's at Borkham Hills, and I find that this place has a little bit more of an older demographic.

Some of the clothes seem to be a little bit older, so hopefully, hopefully, we can find dark academia tweed and all that sort of thing.

Well, once again, things didn't go quite as expected.

I have walked out now with a box of homewares and not very much to do with dark academia.

I do have two pieces of clothing, but I found some amazing vases, so they're for a different video.

But I think I'm going to have to head a little bit further afield now because I'm not having any luck out here.

So I'm about to head to the Salvation Army at Seven Hills because it's huge.

I think I looked at every single item of clothing in that cell hose, and I've walked away with something that's not dark academia.

A pair of pants and a belt and a bunch of homewares because I can't stop, won't stop.

But now I've come to the Vinnie's at Blacktown because this is the next one over, basically.

Alright, maybe I'll have better luck at the Salvos at Marion, and once I'm done there, time to get a Slurpee from 7-Eleven.

Well, I haven't had a huge amount of luck finding the things that I was looking for, so I'm going to pull out the big guns and I'm going to head to Windsor and Richmond, which is about 30 minutes from where I am now, so road trip!

Well, Richmond's Salvos sure did provide, and not just dark academia clothing, but they Oh my god.

Also had a quick look in Vinny's at Richmond, didn't find much, did find a pastel skirt but that's not for this video.

Alright, I've arrived at the promised land.

The Windsor Vinny's and the Salvars are the best!

Okay, I said I was done for the day because I thought I had everything I needed from the Salvars in Windsor but I've just stopped in Rouse Hill to go to the South African store because I can't go a day of thrift shopping without buying biltong.

Conveniently, there is also a Vinny's here, I don't actually need anything else but I'm just going to go in here anyway.

Alright guys, I'm back and I'm in disguise because there was something about my regrowth and my blue, green and yellow hair that didn't quite scream academia.

Someone left a comment the other day and they were like, it's the way that she says academia like macadamia for me.

There I go with my Australian accent but then I started to think about it a bit more and I was like, do Australians say academia?

Maybe I should just post a video like, how to pronounce things with Alex.

Anyway, there was something about my terrible hair that didn't scream academic so we're wearing a wig.

So let's have a look at these items that I've picked up.

Obviously very different sort of style to what I'm used to and I'm not going to be keeping a lot of these things.

I'm actually going to be giving them to various people for Christmas.

I have a lot of friends that adore this type of clothing, they go crazy for it.

So I won't be hanging onto a lot of this stuff, some of it I will, we'll see how we go.

This is a brand called Essentials Collections.

This is extremely, extremely heavy.  Yes, so it is leather.

But I think from memory it might have been like $15 or something.

So it's a bit big on me but I'm not going to be keeping this one.

I am giving it to a friend of mine who, oh my gosh she's going to love it so much.

This is really, really noisy because the leather is really stiff.

It's like folding cardboard or something.

But it's ridiculously warm as leather always is.

And hey for those of you that aren't particularly into purchasing leather, do you mind buying leather if it's second hand?

To me it seems different to buy leather new versus buying leather second hand.

If you're a vegan for example, if you're vegan, would you buy second hand leather or just flat out boycott leather altogether?

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