#shoutout to the ebay seller

[sugarywishes]

I don't usually post irl photos, BUT MY CHAO PLUSHIE HAS COMEEE IM SO HAPPYYY (and a little care bear friend too for free :) )

[drowningfornow]

and so my R+ collection begins... 😌

[timdoubleyou]

i found jay’s black jacket (an ID guide)

This black jacket is worn by Jay about 9 times throughout Marble Hornets, including his final appearance. And after some weeks of on-and-off research, I think I know the exact make and model.

This post will detail exactly how I found it, and serve as a guide for anyone that wants to find the jacket, whether that's for cosplay purposes, or if you're just keen on collecting items related to MH.

Main post under the cut

Intro

The first step to identifying the jacket was to gather as many references as possible.

I went back to the web series and took screenshots from any entries the jacket makes an appearance. (shoutout to mg549′s very comprehensive MH wardrobe guide, without it this would’ve been much more of a pain)

Jay's jacket is, for the most part, very plain. It's a solid color, full-zip jacket, without any particularly eye-catching logos or other details. I had to look for moments where even the slightest distinction appeared clear on camera, at least as distinct as it can be. Even if it was just close-ups to get the shape of a zipper, or how many buttons are on a sleeve, it was the best I got. While I did manage to find a decent amount of these, there was just one crucial detail that would've made finding it near-impossible; the brand is never shown. Thankfully, I had another resource.

In 2018 Troy Sold a Lot of Stuff

In early 2018, Troy officially announced that MH would be continued in a comic series. To fund the first issue, he held a number of auctions for production items used during the web series on Ebay.

These included items such as Jay’s camera, Brian’s hoodie, A Masky mask, and Jay’s black jacket.

Lo and behold, the jacket listing includes a picture with the brand in clear view. It's from Gap.

Ebay does not archive sold listings older than 90 days. However, Worthpoint, a website for valuing and pricing collectibles, does. Using Worthpoint I was able to find all of these items, (and a lot more, which can be found in this doc I submitted to Archive Hornets)

Identification

With the picture from the listing and the series screencaps, I had a complete ID list.

(Top image is from the Ebay listing, with the contrast adjusted a little for easier viewing. The bottom two images are from Entry #79)

The Gap logo (This specific logo dates the jacket being made anywhere between 1986 and 2009, when it first appears).

Front Zipper (Note the shape)

The two front pockets

The two buttons and pointed cuffs on each sleeve (Second one is a little hard to see but it's jusstt peeping out at the side)

The blue piping in the inner lining

The zipper in the right side inner lining

The gray mesh inner lining

With these in mind, I could now go to the next and longest step-

Finding the Jacket

I combed three resell sites; Ebay, Depop, and Poshmark. My main goal wasn't to actually purchase the jacket, (although, I would like to at some point) but to find a jacket listing that had every identifier, and have a more definite baseline for finding others. I needed to be sure what I had was enough to properly ID the jacket. The references I had stitched together were decent enough, but I wanted to see if there was something better out there.

After tons of page scrolling and tab-switching and comparing and contrasting, I finally got lucky.

(first two images are from crashthecloset's listing on poshmark, last six are from shannfo-76 on ebay)

I haven't bought one myself as of posting, but I feel pretty confident this is it. The jackets were already sold, but every marker seemed to be accounted for. It also revealed new ones, like the reflective pattern and pockets on the inner lining, (zipper on the right side pocket, button on the left pocket) and the materials tag.

With that, here's some final notes that may be helpful if you try looking for the jacket yourself:

Online sellers often describe it as a light jacket, a windbreaker, a 2-in-1, or 3-in-1.

"Gap Mens Black Jacket" is the search phrase I used the most since it yielded a (very) broad result pool.

Most of the jackets I found came from Poshmark or Ebay.

The exact size of Jay’s jacket is unclear. My best guesses are either a US Men’s S or M, since Jay was pretty skinny and of average height. I’ve only been able to find maybe 2 jackets that are a size M, one of which is the first pic in the photoset above.

Gap has sold other black jackets that look remarkably similar to Jay’s, and they do pop up on resell sites. One of these was so similar, the only discernible difference was the style of the logo. I highly recommend making sure it matches the exact one Jay had before purchasing. (It's also more than fine to ask/msg me if you have any doubts!) As long as you know what to look for, you shouldn’t have a problem finding at least one.

One detail that confounded me was this sleeve poking out of Jay's jacket. At first I thought he was wearing a long sleeve underneath, making this shot a continuity error since he appeared to Only be wearing the green short sleeve under the jacket.

@hivemite pointed out that this might be a two-in-one jacket, which has multiple layers for different types of weather. While I have not been able to see the sleeve outside of two shots in entry #79 and #80, one listing I found did describe it as a 3-in-1.

that's about it! hope this helps :)

[56kilobits]

i have successfully restored my ebay "for parts" toshiba libretto 50ct with one weird trick: compact flash to ide adapter

well that's not explicitly true, it actually boots just fine (more on that later) but it boots into knoppix, and i wanted a full restore back to factory settings for the ~true experience~. also it's a original physical platter drive and those things aren't going to last much longer. so i found this 50ct/70ct restore image from archive.org (shoutout to homie retronicko), mounted it to a cf card i had laying around, and plugged it into this thing, and swapped out the old 815mb ide drive

you'll see here why it was marked as "for parts". this is silly and easily fixable but this computer illiterate ebay seller's loss is my gain

f1 takes us to the cute little bios, showing off the whopping 32mb of ram. waow

simple process of registering a user and punching in a win95 product key i found on google and we're in

a delightful teal green for a job well done

[aaliyahunleashed]

Rare exclusive candid photography of Aaliyah @ the ’97 Budweiser Superfest Tour | Photography from SoxPhotos via ebay.

Shoutout to Ultimate.Aaliyah (via IG) for the heads-up that the images exist and big shoutout to motorcityb (via IG) for reaching out to the EBAY seller and asking if they had anymore and getting a motherload of extra goodies.

[bilbao-song]

so i kept seeing your url in the bee gees tag and remembered what i’ve been meaning to ask you!

which are your favorite vintage nail polishes?

this is a very late response (sorry!!!!) but!!!!!!!

(i’m going to put this under a read more and bold the titles because i ranted extensively…also i’m going to attempt to include pictures bc i missed out on that era like a decade ago when people had nail blogs that were basically just endless photos of nail polish swatches and i need to get that out of my system)

basically all of the revlon chrome polishes from 2003 (as well as the other ones; i THINK the other collection was from 2000ish?) but my favorite of those is petalchrome which is basically just a light blue chrome :^) i have two bottles of it that i got from my mom but both are running tragically low so i’m on the hunt

any and all revlon streetwear appeals to me for some reason and i constantly lament having missed the era when you could actually buy those in stores (thanks to chronic Don’t Exist Yet Disease followed by several years of infant syndrome) BUT my favorite that i actually own is called twinkle twinkle and it’s like, kind of a lavender shade with some iridescent glitter :~) i have been told it’s from 1996 but i’m not sure if that’s accurate tbh. they have another one called deception which i want SO badly but i tried to buy it on ebay and the person sent me the wrong shade and well!! we never got that sorted out. once bitten etc. hopefully someone else will list it eventually :’)

wild by bonne bell, which i got on ebay earlier this year and i’m positively obsessed with!!! blue-ish nail polishes with golden shimmer are kind of my weakness tbh. i thiiiink it’s from sometime in the 90s but i’m not sure? anyway shoutout to cassiecosmetics on ebay for being the nail polish seller of all time

as for things i don’t own!!! there are a few orly nail polishes in their satin hues collection that i would really like to find! there are several blues and purples that i’m looking for but i don’t remember the names atm

another that i don’t own, ciel de nuit by chanel!! it was the result of a contest from a 1996 issue of seventeen magazine and it’s like…super expensive to get a bottle these days, HOWEVER the person who won the contest somewhat recently shared the details of how they came up with it, and the person they shared it with wrote like…a whole entire summary to be shared with the Vintage Nail Polish Collecting Community and tl;dr it’s basically a combination of three different 90s wet n wild polishes which i now own >:) i don’t have very much of the glitter that’s involved, so i took the easy way out and just put the silver glitter over the metallic blue instead of mixing all three, but it’s close enough for me :’)

okay self-indulgent photo time

here’s my ciel de nuit copycat >:)

twinkle twinkle <3

and two pictures of wild bc it’s so hard to get a good photo of for some reason

anyway!!!! thank you for sending this!! sorry it took 37 years to answer!!!

[akascow]

shoutout to the ebay seller who tried to offer me a 2% discount off their 1000$ item lmao i appreciate it but also bOLD of you to assume—

[racecargraveyard]

2022 Daniel Suárez #99 Onx/Renu Sonoma Win raced version Liquid Color RCCA Elite #44 of 92 made. So happy to have this! And so happy to have a race winner from the mother land 🇲🇽 Shoutout to @RaceSonoma for the cutout! And the seller on ebay who had the confetti! 🔥

[majobun]

shoutout to my ebay seller who filled the box with random japanese newspapers for protection. i had fun looking at them

[seouldreams14]

bad photos but look what came early!~~~~

for years I was so terrified of buying off ebay but honestly I had a pleasant experience so I would just say to look out and trust your gut. I was so worried this would be too good to be true because Ongniel bundle but nope!~ 

I’m so happy to have it in my hands after so many years of wanting!~

[iero]

Cannot sleep without it (the My Chemical Romance blanket I just got in the mail) from now on.

[mikiruma]

i want..... ps2 gitadora.....

[projectcatzo]

Shoutout to the ebay seller who shipped my Webkinz in a box of Meijer waffle mix

[aaliyahunleashed]

Rare exclusive candid photography of Aaliyah @ the ’97 Budweiser Superfest Tour | Photography from SoxPhotos via ebay.

Shoutout to Ultimate.Aaliyah (via IG) for the heads-up that the images exist and big shoutout to motorcityb (via IG) for reaching out to the EBAY seller and asking if they had anymore and getting a motherload of extra goodies.

[goatalicious]

im aware its an automatically generated image or whatever but shoutout to this ebay seller who perfectly encapsulated my ideal fooling around environment

[poisoncontrolcenterassociate]

alright shoutout bought new winter boots im such a fucking consumer victim when a seller on ebay offers me any sort of % off im like okay yes please