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Those thieves really saw your dad’s sweater and went “this man’s style aint it” Brutal

Commenting to help meme mom buy back her wardrobe

It's crazy how we sometime feel obligated to justify ourselves. You were robbed, your car was closed. You're not stupid for packing the way you do. It just sucks sometimes

As a Roman, my guess is that it was done by someone living nearby with contacts with people selling stolen stuff in Porta Portese market (which is the local flea market, and the biggest of its kind in Rome). They saw you park the car from their windows/ balcony and observed you coming and going for a couple of days to get a feeling for your habits/ timetables. You can sell pretty much anything in Porta Portese, and it's common knowledge that some of the merchandise isn't acquired through exactly legal means. My suggestion for future trips would be to frequently change your car's parking spot, and to try as much as possible to only open the trunk when no one can see you.

This is why you should always only buy haunted clothing! When someone steals it, the little girl will terrorize them!

Oh wow. I'm so incredibly sorry for your loss. They didn't just steal your beautiful clothes, they stole hours of work, planning and effort. I'm so sorry.

As a romanian with paranoid parents, they always taught me as a child to NEVER EVER leave stuff in the car especially on vacation. To this day, I dont even leave a bag or box in the back of my car even in my own condo parking where the risk is extremely low. One of my parents' friends even got stolen from her car while she was at a RED LIGHT and didnt lock the doors of her car.

I'm Italian and I live in Rome, quite near the neighborhood you got robbed at... and first of all, let me say that I'm MORTIFIED about what happened 😢💔 Rome is not my hometown but I love this place and it's so frustrating to hear this 😢😢😢 I suspect they're gonna re-sell everything in Porta Portese, this huge market that they have on Sundays. I could look out for some of your stuff next time I go there 🥹

I feel like you criticizing what the robber took gave the same energy as my English teacher saying “If you’re gonna cheat, at least do it well.”

I love how you're reaction less like "oh no I'm so sad I'll never recover" and more like "what the frick. why. What a poorly conducted theft. how dare they"

I suffered a loss like this and I was surprised how many people blamed me. You did nothing wrong. No one has a right to take your things ever.

I’m sorry you had this happen. I’ll share what the police officer said to me when I was beating myself up for not securing my purse that got stolen, “it’s not your fault someone took it. That was their choice.” I always appreciated that sentiment. Take your time rebuilding your wardrobe. I’m sure you will have good ideas of what will work for you.

When Karolina said that a 3 years old laptop is ancient, I side eyed my 8 years old laptop. Still going strong!💪🏽 I don't edit videos though.

I had my house broken into. I was away on a work trip and they must have known they had plenty of time. They tossed every drawer in my house. It felt so violating! They stole so many things that were sentimental but the one thing I've never gotten over is they took my mom's 1951 classic Singer sewing machine that I learned to sew on and she had given to me to sew curtains for my home. I loved that thing and it held so many memories with my mom. I'm so sorry you lost such personal items. People say it's just stuff and replaceable. I can tell you not everything IS replaceable. 😢

My ex stole everything I owned since it was temporarily in storage. It’s been 20 years and I’m still upset by it. I’m so sorry this happened to you all.

I moved to Europe and shipped several boxes. Included in these boxes was the majority of my books and clothes. A lot of those clothes were vintage and had belonged to my mom while she was living and studying in Europe. Somewhere between California and Germany half of my shipment was stolen, so I lost all the clothes and the vast majority of books. Including my baby photo album. I was sick over it for a couple years. Oddly they took my cardboard boxes, not the vintage steamer trunks full of art supplies and vintage cameras 🤷🏾‍♀️

Being the most fabulously dressed thief in Italy, they should’ve been easy to catch.

Listen, I understand being envious of someone’s wardrobe, but this is going too far.

They took one look at your clothing selections and just assumed you must have had expensive taste and probably some fine jewelry tucked away. Sad they actually got your priceless hand made wardrobe. Mean people suck!

Our camera got stolen on our honeymoon and we lost all of the photos. I don't give a rat's ass about that camera, 21 years later it's obsolete and probably in a landfill now. I WISH I had those photos though. It sucks that this happened, the sentimental value and the memories of Carolina's vintage wardrobe is incalcuable to her. I hope those thieves steal someone's bag that is full of poisonous snakes...When I was in college my car was broken into and the theives went through my cassette tapes and left all the bob dylan and I was so fricking mad on bob dylan's behalf...

I started wearing vintage clothes in the 80s and they were so cheap then. No one wanted them and people thought I was crazy, but I loved them. The thing with vintage clothes is they can't be replaced and that's sick that someone has stolen yours.

Unfortunately thieves don't tend to target "wealthy" people because they are more difficult to steal from given the sophisticated alarm systems on the cars that now even have cameras, tracking devices, and the likelihood that police will take that robbery much more seriously if it happens to someone super rich. They purposefully target low to middle income people, who of course it actually harms the most. I'm really sorry for you, that's so frustrating and you worked so hard to accumulate quality pieces and for the stress to you and your family.

This also happened to my family in Rome :(( We just stopped by the beach for like half an hour on the way to the airport. They stole all our passports, a camera and my mother's favorite jeans jacket (she is still mad about that). But the worst was they took my 5 year old sister's bag with her favorite teddy bear in it. She cried and cried and cried all the way to the embassy to get emergency passports and on the plane home and was sad for many weeks after. And it was probably just thrown away :(

Hello, Italian here. A few summers ago, on the morning of my departure for my roadtrip, my car was stolen in front of my house. The thing I noticed that is extremely similar to your experience is the late evening visit to pick up or leave something in the car. In my case I had left a handful of things of no economic value in the trunk the night before the event. I believe that this behavior may have attracted the bad guys in both cases, it is possible that they checked where we were returning and therefore they could have taken it calmly and committed the crime. I understand your feelings about what you lost: in my car there was my collection of CDs (all not original but lovingly put together over the years), two beach towels that I was very fond of and above all a bag of fabric that my mother had made for me and that I have never been able to use. She is no longer able to sew another one and the thought that an object of such great sentimental value to me could have ended up in a dumpster still makes me feel sick. I'm so sorry for your loss.

My mom and I moved from Arizona to Ohio and the movers stole EVERYTHING. All we had left was our animals, a few photo albums, a few clothes, some important papers... everything else is gone, from sentimental to irreplaceable to practical. We went from trying to enjoy our "fresh start" to being angry at our loss with nobody caring or helping.

The reason why they probably didn’t take the camera was because of the serial numbers. A friend of mine got his nintendo switch stolen and he later found it in a pawn shop and was able to trace the thief by the serial number and the thief’s credentials at the pawn shop. A big LOL

As a person whose size isn't sold in stores, and who has to alter nearly everything I own or make it myself, this sounds like a nightmare. 😳

I'm so sorry that happened. This isn't much, but I hope you can get a few cups of coffee in there ❤

"I hope they step on legos....not gonna lie." I burst out laughing at that, Karolina! I hope your Roman fans find some of your pieces after you post pictures.

If the Internet can find Ludwig’s stolen truck, we can find Karolina’s stolen clothes 😤

Honestly the frustrating, angry and extremely violating feeling of being robbed is unexplainable. Although I am glad to see you doing well despite everything, I am so sorry this happened to you.🙇🏻‍♂️ Nobody deserves this

My dad being Italian and us living in Switzerland, it was a really big deal when we went in holidays with our very nice car with Swiss license plate. So it's kind of ingrained in my brain to never leave the car in a shady spot, never leave anything in the car, never trust anyone and always expect to be robbed so keep eveything important on yourself. I'm so sorry you had to experience all this

We moved to Wroclaw and on top of adjusting to a new home, my husband's vintage analogue camera was stolen within the first month of living here. Of course one would feel angry about the monetary and emotional value, but the feeling that bothered me the most was just not feeling like I can't trust ANYONE. It's traumatising in it's own weird way. And people will say "oh well you can always replace things" but people fail to realise how your trust in humanity is just shattered immediately afterwards.

As an Italian I'm ashamed to hear this news. Unfortunately our country is in a terrible state.

I just had my suitcase of handmade clothes stolen while on holiday so I relate so hard to everything you’ve been saying about realising what’s gone. And the guilt of going into fast fashion stores 🤷‍♀️

As a larger plus size person, one of my biggest fears is having my luggage stolen or lost. I ALWAYS pack 1-2 outfits in a carry-on or bag that stays with me because I know I'm not finding clothes that even fit my body in a country where I don't speak the language.

As someone who had my laundry stolen from my own building i can understand the feelings. It sucks and its like its not valuable to anyone but me.

Am so sorry about this ugly Crime committed in my country. Sorry from an Italian fan 😓

One time my family's van was broken into, they stole our cassette collection & a mini TV & then just threw the cassettes into the dumpster nearby. We contacted the cops who barely made a report because they were "busy" with accidents because it snowed in a place that snows every year. (The dusting of snow qas how we found the cassettes as their were footprints to the dumpster from the van.)

This happened to us in France while also on a camping road trip. We were in a rush and left only a couple of things at the campsite and drove to the city to go for dinner with a friend we hadn't seen in 10 years. Came back to the car an hour and a half later and the window was smashed and all our stuff scattered all over the car and the floor of the street. I know exactly what you mean about feeling "gross" about the stuff they touched. They had gone through my makeup bag and thrown it on the floor, gone through all my clothes. They also stole some super random stuff! Like they took an 8 year old laptop and my passport but they left jewelry?! They also took two pairs of Birkenstocks. Now let me tell you: THOSE SHOES WERE NASTY. They were old af and we had worn them to the beach so they had salt water stains all over. However, they left quite pricey leather shoes?? They also took a random pair of Decathlon sunglasses that probably cost 10 euros...My conclusion is that what they take is a mix of stuff for resale but also stuff they just like for themselves/their family.

Drop a P.O box! I inherited some of my 100 year old grandma's clothes. She was very stylish, I'd be happy to send a couple choice peices :-)

Oh girl no 😭 you have been EXTREMELY lucky if this has never happened before. First rule of parking is to NEVER leave anything visible in a parked car! My (italian) family taught this to me when I was little and even though I live in a small town I always do this. Rome in particular is huge and you need to be extra careful :(

I'm so sorry this happened to you! I was robbed the exact same way in Prague in 2005. All of my best clothes were gone, and it was just a few days before I started high school! 😭Lesson learned the hard way, never, ever, ever, leave your luggage in the car.

As a mystery writer, I feel like a plot twist would be that the guy who seemed suspicious but then was friendly to you in Polish was actually the thief, and that's why he took the Polish novels... Unfortunately writing mystery plots does not help me solve real life crimes! Really sorry this happened and hope you can soon find some new favourite items if the others are never found. ❤️

As my mother used to say, never take anything on vacation that isn't disposable. If it doesn't get stolen the airlines will loose it.

You really shouldn't have to justifiy yourself (meaning your familiarity with camping, the area, etc.) for getting robbed, it's not your fault, it shouldn't happen under any circumstances. Sorry to hear that!

Thanks for all your amazing content! I’m sorry this happened to your family but I’m so glad you’re all safe.

I'm so sorry for this! And also I can feel you: me and my friend got robbed this summer in Milan. Thieves broke into the apartment through the open window (it was hot) while we were sleeping between 3 and 6 a.m. took our phones, credit card, and an expensive camera. We didn't even wake up! They left the handprints in the apartment, too. The funniest part is that we even tracked the thieves ourselves but the police did literally nothing. 🤡

Sorry that you experienced this. Hope this helps you restoring your wardrobe.

The worst thing about being robbed - of anything - is the sense of violation. I also know that feeling of obsessing over the dumbest little thing lost, just because it had sentimental value, or was something I had made, or was given to me by a dear friend. Thanks for sharing your story. Very relatable.

I completely agree on the feeling of knowing that someone you don't know touched your stuff. Our house was robbed one summer and the thieves left all of our clothes in piles all around the bedrooms (they were probably looking for hidden money or sth). As soon as the police left, we started to wash EVERYTHING because we felt so disgusted

karolina's struggle with modern fashion to replace her wonderful vintage wardrobe is the exact reason the rest of us non-vintage girlies have to obsess over Kibbe body types and deep dive into clothing practices and materials in an attempt to wear anything. RIP Karolina's Vintage Clothes (and her family's luggage and broken car window 😭)

It's gonna be mislabeled in a museum in 10 years.

The fast fashion horror experience is so interesting because as a tall curvy/midsize woman I still blamed myself a little for not fitting in those types of clothes. ''They are made for tall and slender people''. But Karolina's experience (the supposed ideal body for those brands) proves that they are just badly patterned and cut, anyway lol

I used to live in a midsized US city. I was going on a long weekend trip. I had a bag of just clothes in my car. During one of my university classes someone forced open the drivers door and stole it. I went to campus security they said they can’t pull the camera footage for something like that. I went to the police and they could care less. The officer literally asked me why was I so upset about just clothes and if I had drugs in my bag. I was so disgusted.

you're handling the trauma so well. I would have looked up a witch and had them cursed into oblivion. but that's just me.

Ouch, I feel your pain. Many years ago, I had a suitcase full of all my Renn Fair garb stolen out of the back of my car. When I got ready to leave and realized that everything was gone, I was DEVASTATED. This was not Party City clothes, these were all things that I had hand sewn, embroidered, beaded, and sweated over for years. Also, there were about $1000 worth of custom made corsets in there. I'm still bitter.

If it'll make you feel better, know that police don't even help us Italians, regardless of the fact that they can understand the language 😂 I'm sorry you had this experience, you have to be so so careful now even if you are not a tourist, it's really disheartening.

One thing my mom taught me is: DO NOT LEAVE VISIBLE ITEMS IN THE CAR! She always reminds me, even though we live in Florence, where these kinds of things are quite rare. And always remember that, as a tourist, you are way more vulnerable. If you're traveling with a car with a foreign number plate, either empty it or get a garage for the night. EDIT: Let's be clear, I'm not blaming Karolina or her family.

For future videos, maybe you could talk about the "logic" of how to strategically build up a wardrobe now, given your years of experience versus what you thought you needed to do as a noob. When I got into Japanese Lolita Fashion I had this perception of how one was suppose to build their wardrobe, or how others thought you should but then once I had already been in it for a while I realized, looking back, I would have given my younger-self completely different advice. Basically, having lots of time/experience made me realize looking back how you would very strategically / deliberately go straight for the most important key elements that in the end make the most direct impact and that those items are really particular and often subtle on their own.

"Remember whatever inconvenience in your life there is, uh....you can always monetize it." 😂 I literally guffawed. You defense mechanism is definitely humor!! In all seriousness though, this is devastating. Such much love and devotion went to collecting and creating those pieces, I'm so sorry!

I have a friend who said something like "when you loose or break something you get the permission to get new favourites". While it sucks to get robbed and loose stuff, I hope you get the lots of new favourites that will bring you lots of joy

I felt the same way when my vehicle got broken into years back. They took my backpack with all of my beautiful regency clothes. Which either I had made or had saved up and purchased for $$$. Then they took my car stereo... but left my iPod and my skateboard...? I had been so tired the night before from our recency ball performance that I didn't bring stuff inside and it was all gone by the morning. Ever since then, I don't leave anything in a car that I don't mind if it gets stolen. It's so creepy and unnerving after a robbery. I'm sorry this has happened to you as well. These thieves at least have good taste in clothes lol

Karolina, I get the confusion over the thieves' choices. My parents house was robbed Christmas night many years ago, when we were all staying there but out visiting other people. They took the most random shit and left valuable items. "I hope they step on Legos" is now my favourite curse 😂

The sad part is they probably don’t know where to sell those vintage pieces and they probably dumped them in the garbage. Hopefully they didn’t extract any personal info from the laptop. Sorry that happened to you and your family.

Imagine finding Karolina’s clothes in an Italian antique shop

So im also Polish and this video reminded me of an incident that happened to me also in Rome. We were also not In the city centre, because it was a last minute trip and our car and another car with Polish rejestration plates had broken windows, those were the only Polish cars in the area and also the only ones with broken windows, nothing was stolen but we had to go the rest of the trip with a trash bag with ducktape covering the window. Really sorry for you btw :c

the moral of the story is to keep everything valuable in a hen-shaped bag

A few vanlifers I follow have mentioned that if you park or get an AnB in some charming little side neighborhood in Italy, you're a target for robbery. Literally 'asking for it's. The people there know it's a AnB, they watch it. They know a van with solor panels is bound to be tourists with money and tech. It's becoming a very sad world. The beautiful pale blue bathing suit! 😭 But on the bright side, more reasons to sew. Your poor Dad, give him a hug from a stranger on line, who thinks he's done a wonderful job raising you!

Damn...as an Italian it sucks especially bad hearing this, I am so sorry dear Karolina.

I’m impressed that you were forced to walk in a fast fashion shop and buy an entire wardrobe and look that good as these pictures show. Wow😮 It shows your level of fashion skills.

Most of my clothes are thrifted or gifted by people, and I struggle a lot to find my size in normal shops. As you say, the sizes are very strange. Damn, that sucks that they stole that from you!!! I would be very upset because when you take your time to make a personalised wardrobe, it really feels like your little treasure, that you cannot replace that easily.

Who ever it was,, it will be something they can never wear, your clothing is iconic and very easy to place and remember. Give it time,, our community is not insurmountably large, some one will eventually draw your eye on the interweb to something that may be yours. I hope you find the items you love the most again.

Cameras and other electronics have serial numbers, so they aren't stolen too often anymore. Sorry that happened to you. Someone tried to rob me while in Rome too.

There's no other kind of human being I despise more than a swindler. I've had things stolen too and it puts unmentionable thoughts in my head. I'm glad you're able to look on the bright side of things.

The only time in my almost 40-year-old life I've been robbed was in Rome, they stole my backpack from under my chair in a street restaurant - I had looped the strap around my ankle to prevent it being stolen so I can only assume they cut through the strap! The pickpocketing and thievery in Rome is seriously on another level! Wszystkiego dobrego wam życzę i niech ich pierun trzaśnie.

I am so sorry this happened to you, but Rome can be really tricky. As an Italian I was trained not to leave anything visible in the car because people will break in to take anything of value or not, but also the police experience is very typically ridiculous.

I was robbed while in university. They stole all of my cash and a really useful pair of boots :( the worst part was definitely the feeling of mistrust and anxiety.

You talking about the difference between what you miss and what the thieves wanted was so true for me when my backpack got stolen. Obviously it was a pain to replace my driver's license and my phone, but I was so sad to lose my swimsuit that fit me really well. I hope they enjoyed the wet swimsuit and towel at the bottom of my backpack. So sorry that happened to you!

It's stories like this one that makes me want to pack my absolute most hated things every time I go on holiday 😅 the heartache 💔

Oh NO. The worst thing is not just the financial value- the emotional value and irreplacabilty of handmade and vintage clothes makes them invaluable. I’d be devastated to lose my wardrobe, it has so much sentimental value to me 😢

It is always so sad loosing sentimental items! I can't remember being robbed of any sentimental items, but I do have a tendency to loose stuff when I am on holiday or out hiking, and the absolute dread when you realize it is gone is so overwhelming

Dear Karolina, former New Yorker here. Pro-tip: Never leave anything visible in a car that you don't want stolen. Solutions for the future. If your car has tinted back windows, then, and I realize I'm going up against family tradition here, so take this with truffle flavored salt flakes, but do not pile things higher than the bottom of the window. Then bring a very dark textured piece of fabric, blanket, and when you leave the car cover everything with it. That creates the illusion that there is nothing in the car. The tinted glass hides every thing that is dark. Light colors stand out. But black hides the stuff. Try it sometime. In other words, especially in the Southern Mediterranean area (Italy, Spain, Southern France, Greece), where thievery and pick-pocketing are more common, make sure you are not tempting the thieves. Also if your car was parked in a zone where people are sitting around, be careful of advertising what's in your trunk. My NYC brain would have immediately noted sketchy men sitting around and I would not have spent time opening the trunk in front of them. I would have brought everything valuable upstairs. Never leave anything you would regret being stolen. Car thieves are skilled. Now Karolina being part-Polish myself I fully realize that there is an old Polish tradition that says no one can tell anyone else what to do. Each Pole reinvents the wheel, or, in your case, makes their own wardrobe. So I am sure you will not follow my advice, you will have to invent your own methods. But if you take one thing from this it's simply this: Never leave anything in the car that you would regret being stolen. Period. And thanks for the video and the sense of humor!

So sorry to hear. In the 90s I lost a whole wardrobe of Chinese vintage clothing the same way. Car broken into and evetything gone. I mourned those pieces for a long time. I am in awe of your attitide towards your experience.

you never cease to amaze me, i would be a bitter, miserable, hate-filled wreck. instead, you create an entertaining vlog about it.

Really sorry this happened to you. Being the victim of theft feels awful. I had my expensive university textbook stolen in a packed university tutorial when I briefly went up to the front of the room. The book had been open on my desk and when I came back it was gone. I was in disbelief and felt awful knowing that one of the people around me must have done it, but I had no proof and couldn't make everyone open their bags to check.

A few years ago, I was working as a teacher, and a small group of students stole candy out of my desk. The value was probably between $5-10, and it was candy meant as rewards for students, so it wasn’t like I was planning to eat it. However, the feeling of being stolen from and having my trust damaged hurt terribly. I’m sorry to hear your family went through that and lost irreplaceable items.

This is so sad though. I’m sorry this happened.

Being robbed is awful and feels so violating. I’m so sorry that happened to you and your family!

To juz kolejna historia o kradzieży we Wloszech w te lato. Znajomym moich znajomych okradli cały samochód z bardzo ale to nardzo drogich rzeczy🙈 a najlepsze bylo to, że dziewczyna widziała dokładną lokalizację swojego maca i policja nawet nie miala zamiaru pojechać i sprawdzić tego domu... cóż bella Italia żądzi sie swoimi prawami😢

"I hope they step on Legos" is now my new favourite way to curse someone.

Cant believe it. Though I suppose its a backhanded compliment that your clothes were so desirable to somebody.

So sorry for your loss. I am sure it is a deeper hurt than most might imagine.

Video idea: a REAL "what I'd buy for my wardrobe if I was starting over"

Sorry about the loss of your stuff. I am sure that they were watching your car beforehand and saw it as an opportunity. My brother had his car stolen in California and it wasn’t ever recovered. I was there the day that he found out it was gone (right around Christmas) and it was hard. He was thankful that he and his family were safe though- that is what really matters. Family being there and safe- is it one thing to be grateful about too!

I'm so sorry this happened to you, not proud of my city rn... I'm from Rome and I have to say tho, the area you were staying is where yhe biggest black market of miscellaneous items of Rome takes place, it's called Porta Portese and it's a very long main street (perhaps the one you mentioned, who knows) with stands of people selling stuff for cheap with no license, and I have heard and believe many of the things they sell are stolen. It would make so much sense to me if they sold your entire wardrobe the next Sunday, and that explains why the took so many random things. I hope this explains something, anyway I feel sorry for you

No you are certainly not stupid. Things like that happen all over the world. Sorry, you had to go through this experience. I hope, you will build an even better vintage clothes collection. And yes, may the theives step on Legos ... and not just once.

I am so, so sorry! I am ashamed that this happened so close to my home (I live not far from there). It must have been horrible. Unfortunately, sh*t like this happens in the area. As someone already said in the comments, this kind of thieves take things that can resell without being easily tracked, usually in a market that takes place just about where you were sleeping.

As an italian I'm so sorry this happened to you and your family 😭