Coin Show Pants

Singapore

When you attend a show do you intentionally wear frayed trousers with a big stain in the crotch and a circa-1981 shirt with a large hole under the arm in an effort to look poor and get better prices, or do you wear your quintuple pleated Armani linen pants and baggy shirt ensemble with your woven Cole-Haan loafers and crocodile belt, chatting on your unusually expensive cel-phone and barking orders in Italian to imaginary assistants so as to impress the middle-aged woman at the snack stand?

dorkkarl

what makes you think i wear clothes?

K S

ccrdragon

If it's a weekend and the weather's good - sandals, shorts and a t-shirt. If the weather's bad - tennis shoes, jeans and a t-shirt. Basically, if someone won't deal with me because of the way that I am dressed, then I don't want to do business with them either...

Funny story - several years ago, my uncle went into Neiman Marcus in downtown Dallas wearing cut-offs, a t-shirt and sandals. Had sales peeps falling all over themselves to help him because they figured the only type of person who would walk into thier hoity-toity store dressed like that had to be rich and eccentric!

MacCoin

I'm a sandals, shorts, Hawian shirt, straw hat, loop on a string around the neck, canvice bag carring type of guy

LucyBop

<< <i>what makes you think i wear clothes? >>



More dorkkarl for me!

Conder101

<< <i>I'm a sandals, shorts, Hawian shirt, straw hat, loop on a string around the neck, canvice bag carring type of guy >>


Sounds like Walter Breen

Bear

The mental image of Dorkcarl sans clothing , at a coin show,

would probably make me pass on eating lunch.

kieferscoins

I usually wear my police BDU black pants because they have six pockets, 2 on the lower leg where I can stash slabs and because they are comfortable, yet look better than blue jeans. They are made of ripstop material and do not have to be ironed out of the dryer. Here is a pic (picture normal shoes, normal shirt and belt):



Cameron Kiefer

Dog97

I dress the same 365 days a year. That being flipflops, cut off jeans w/o underwares, t shirt w/smokes pocket, 3 Spyderco Enduras, ragged once black Shooting Times hat with AK47 pin and RayBans.
If I been working a pair of US Army (real ones not chinese imports) jungle boots completes my ensemble.

kieferscoins

I can fit up to 15 slabs in each of my lower pockets. Jeans don't allow that.

Cameron Kiefer

Zerbe

I am usually in full Camo and dark glasses. I use my 45 holster as a holder for my loupe and coin doctor identifier.

Dog97

People that dress like kieferscoins stare @ people that dress like me.

kieferscoins

We are just genrations apart, and most people would stare at the younger generation, but I guess you think it is the other way around.

Cameron Kiefer

Russ

Regardless of what pants you wear, don't forget to strap on a Slab Caddy™!

Russ, NCNE

Tassa

I haven't been to a coin show yet, but plan to attend at least one this summer. I'll probably wear a T-shirt, sandals, and most importantly, a pair of baggy cargo shorts. That way, I'll be comfortable and have enough room in my pockets for cash, a loupe, my list, and at least four or five slabs.

scher

comfortable shoes always comfortable shoes..
bruce scher

Dog97

kieferscoins generations has nothing to do with it. Old guys that dress like cops stare at me too.

BigE

Singapore, I dress like corporal Klinger so dealers will automatically know that I am looking for state quarters

dorkkarl

<< <i>The mental image of Dorkcarl sans clothing , at a coin show, would probably make me pass on eating lunch >>

ok ok ok, you talked me into it. i'll wear the tutu!

K S

airplanenut

I wear cargos... shorts or pants depending on the weather--- lots of pockets. Then I wear a comfortable t-shirt and fleece if applicable.

Jeremy

ANACONDA

I would dress respectfully. A guy who is a sharp dresser and who conducts himself like a professional and who talks like he knows what he is talking about is probably going to know what he is doing. He's the guy who dealers will take time with. You can get by with less but it's not my advice.

Having said that, wear overalls and barefeet but flash a Proof 68 Ultra Cameo Twenty Lib under my nose and you've made the team.

Actually, i would always advise that you bring some of your best coins to a show. For many reasons.

For example, this past Saturday, Andrew (from this forum) directed me to a dealer's table - a guy who had a lot of nice toned dollars. I went over to his table with a tray of my best toned dollars, which have the prices i paid for them on the backs.

I showed him my coins, he saw what i paid for them and then he priced some coins to me. I was able to buy this from him for less than a meal for four at a nice restaurant:



adrian

hookedoncoins

I like to come dressed as a 1930s mobster (trenchcoat and a fedora)... sometimes I will bring a monacle to look through when viewing coins.

Another wonderful coin by Adrian.

-Jarrett Roberts

smprfi

<< <i>what makes you think i wear clothes?

K S >>


EEEWWWW!!!!! Now I know who to avoid.

smprfi

kieferscoins
With those flood waters all you need is a pocket protecter and glasses and we can call you the good guy nerd.

jonesy

At the Coin show, If you see the hoard of collectors suddenly part; Dorkkarl has entered the building. Wearing nothing but a slab caddy.
Glenn

kieferscoins

<< <i>With those flood waters all you need is a pocket protecter and glasses and we can call you the good guy nerd >>



With your Marine corps logo, I am suprised that you don't know that you tuck the pants into your boots in the military and the police forces. It looks better and there isn't loose pants hanging around. No flood waters there.

Cameron Kiefer

pontiacinf

i have a pair of skater pants that have 15 zipperd pockets all lined with felt


i can buy till i fill up...go upstairs to room and then go buy 15 more

JLW

I prefer my Bushman Ghillie Suit, lets me sneak up on the dealers undetected so I can figure out their pricing structure covertly.
Joe
P.S. Pockets are a problem however, might have to get a "slab caddy" or two!

ms70

I usually wear a thong.