your style, your brands

nudie jeans

lol is this a brand?

I have only owned one suit in my life. I bought it for a job interview when I was 21. I've always worked in business casual emphasis on the casual since so I've never needed another.

I need some fancy clothes.

e: haha yeah

wow lamp sounds i bet you are v skinny

what does this mean???

trouser brands that don't go up to 40.

I'm a 30" and i can't wear Nudie :(

i will follow my favorite brands into weird and dark places

for example, i got a line on this ridiculous corduroy jacket for about 1/4 of the price listed, please talk me out of it before i do something stupid

― the late great, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 3:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I like this jacket because (and no offense intended!) it reminds me of a signature piece of clothing an anime character might have

lamp - i can't wear apc, band of outsiders, cdg, rag+bone

even if i buy XL, everything from those brands is too tapered and skinny. those are popular brands w/ skinny dudes and asians because they look nice on smaller people but if you're tall and broad-shouldered and long-limbed SUPER-MUSCULAR like me (i also have long arms) they are always too tight and short.

i do have one nice XL apc dress shirt that i got for $50 at a barney's sale but i can't button the neck and the sleeves only go about 3" from my wrists, so if i wear it to work i wear a t-shirt underneath and i always roll up the sleeves.

Man, shopping is serious business for you guys. I don't have enough patience to seek out sales. I think that's what I must be doing wrong. Gonna cultivate some.

uh my wife (ex) dragged me to that one

dayo i like that jacket because it reminds me of the kind of stuff my mom would buy for me in 1981 at fedco

i don't really shop sales but i will admit shopping is serious business for me

I am asian and have trouble fitting into most skinny jeans because I have thunder thighs iirc

big bottom bird soup

maybe i should have said those are popular brands w/ some skinny dudes and some asian people

well if u say x is popular with y it doesnt mean all y like x

imo if u say x is popular w y on ilx cya

oh late great i c - yah i get what you mean, band of outsiders tend to fit a little larger than the others but they can all be p unforgiving, like i have to wear a L/XL for sure. oh to be one of those urban gnomes...

having thought abt this btw i probably own more american apparel t-shirts (all crew neck, most pocket front) and lacoste polos than anything but a.p.c. stuff

haha also good lookin out @ seandalai and jim

ah god my gf has ruined like six of my lacoste polos by putting them in the dryer.

they shrink like two sizes in length and one in width so even if i buy size 8 to be able to use the dryer the shirts would still be too wide

i stick to polo polos now because they're pre-shrunk

lol urban gnomes

Man, shopping is serious business for you guys. I don't have enough patience to seek out sales.

I only go shopping twice a year - January and July sales - so much not effort at all!

As a skinny guy I can say life isn't necessarily any easier...especially for shirts/jackets lots of brands' smallest sizes turn out to be too big for me.

zubaz
tevas
big johnson t-shirts
old navy fleece
wraparound shades from pharmacy
kangol

well

sounds hotttt

sorry about the ann taylor thing quincie! if i could go in there and get a work-appropriate skirt or jacket i probably would, because it is *so difficult* to find basics without a lot of unnecessary detail. their particular cuts never fit me right though

i usually stick to apc, j crew (perfect tees, shorts.. sometimes a cardigan or jacket but the quality has gone down a lot imo). theory, some elie tahari for work (the simple styles only, nothing with a lot of detail on it). also like some things from isabel marant etoile and gerard darel depending on the style and fit. rag and bone chinos, current/elliott jeans are the best

girl by band of outsiders is nice, would buy if/when i find something i'd wear a lot + at a sale price i could sort of afford. same for vanessa bruno/vanessa bruno athe, chie mihara and sigerson morrison shoes, hope (stockholm), paul and joe

xpost loool are you rob gronkowski

Damn, I need to come into some money or something. I just looked up some of those and they're totally lovely but I just can't imagine paying $80 for a tee or $300 for a pair of pants. I realize they're probably investment pieces that will last a long time but it just seems like so much to part with for one item.

lol i feel you - i don't know why i have such a hard time spending money on clothes, when i'm happy to drop a couple hundred bucks on a handbag. my style/brand is basically .... target.

i think a part of it is that i don't feel super confident about my style or what looks good.

Yeah, I'm totally the same with bags, jewelry, and occasionally shoes. Those are the things I'll splash out on but for some reason it's really hard for me to pay a lot for clothes, especially basics, even though logically I know it's probably made better and will last longer.

think Lamp needs a Roadkill Cafe shirt

i look back on stuff i wore not even a year ago and think 'jesus christ what was i THINKINK' so thank god i don't spend much on any individual pieces of clothing.

thinking, even

i have def overspent sometimes! but i rarely/never pay full retail - a lot of things i have bought off ebay at super low prices. there are a handful of sellers who list new sale stock from department stores (bloomingdales for instance). i always wear the same size in a couple of labels and do a saved search if there is a certain kind of thing i want. it'll show up eventually. my favorite theory blazer cost about $50 new with tags for instance. got the rag & bone chinos at barney's co-op on an end of season sale, they were the same price as gap by then. the cost is more in the time it takes me to find something i like; i finally bought a short trench for spring, it took lots and lots and lots of searching to find the perfect convergence of label + simple style + acceptable color + relatively low price. it was a pain, but i guess i won't have to bother again for like 10 years.

i admit to buying a couple of $100 tees from apc, though i have worn them constantly & they are still in perfect shape

on the other hand i don't have any expensive handbags or fine jewelry. i like jerome dreyfuss and vanessa bruno, but i'm not willing to spend the money, and my jewelry is almost all vintage that i got as gifts from friends/family.

think Lamp needs a Roadkill Cafe shirt

iiii dont get this

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Everyone was wearing this back in the day in Idaho

I guess it is of a different category than the Zubaz/Oakley look
idk
I am the last person who should be posting on a thread about clothes, even joke clothes

converse, ben sherman

My brands are like:
a bunch of dumb cotton shit
hey I could escape from a burning airplane in those those Merrell shoes
kept finding all these Sonoma Life 'n' Style blouses at Savers and it turns out it's a Kohl's brand
whatever pair of fucking jeans that fits my ass and that I haven't worn thigh biscuit holes into...yet (one pair, any brand)
this one skirt my mom sewed for me twelve years ago
three pairs of New Balance 574s

a t-shirt with a not trendy band on it
fucking Tevas, god

Daria - those are good tips. I think what I need to remind myself of is this part: "the cost is more in the time it takes me to find something i like . . . it was a pain, but i guess i won't have to bother again for like 10 years". I've never bought anything off ebay clothes or otherwise but I'm going to have a look soon.

i basically only buy totally non trend-specific stuff nowadays - plain dress shirts in solid whites and blues and small ginghams, overshirts in same, plain polos and tees in white (red and navy for polos), solid black or navy or grey sweaters and jackets and sweatshirts. jeans and cotton trousers in unwashed basic colors (indigo, khaki, green). same w shorts.

nothing skinny, nothing baggy, nothing that can't be matched with everything else in the closet. nothing that it's easy to buy cashmere sweaters when i

I have a Theory blazer that someone left at a party once. I wore the shit out of it, is the problem. It kinda looks sad now. I've tried to embrace the sadness in a hi/lo way--great clothing, loved to pieces--but it never seems to work on me.

er that got scrambled at the end

nothing too dressy or casual. nothing you couldn't have worn in the 90s, 80s, 70s, etc (if you didn't mind not standing out and looking like a casual preppy)

yesterday i threw out a navy rl polo sweatshirt that cost $100. it lasted me about seven years! i went ahead and bought the exact same thing. I have cashmere sweaters that have lasted about the same length of time and show no sign of quitting on me yet

to summarize

1) buy expensive shit because it's well made, not because it's stylie (or buy cheap stuff that lasts a long time, like AA or ll bean)

2) buy shit that looks good on toddlers, kids, teens, adults, old folks

3) don't buy anything on sale you wouldn't buy at full price or that you wouldn't wear daily

4) tell a tight color story

this advice is from a female friend of mine who does brand consulting for gap, j crew, etc, though i admit it's harder for girls to follow this advice

i think thats kinda bogus. shop to give yourself pleasure in the things you wear and the way you look. buy something to wear once, buy stylish things or garish things or something half as a joke, because it would make someone smile. if i get tired of something i can resell it or donate it or give it to a friend or leave it in a drawer until its cool again. never think of clothes as an investment unless you are good at clothes and even then, they probably arent.

buy something to wear once

can't even imagine this.

Only if it's edible. Wear and eat.

buy something to wear once, buy stylish things or garish things or something half as a joke, because it would make someone smile

big pimpin spendin cheese

Paris Hilton never wears an outfit twice.

The 29-year-old socialite - who has fronted advertising campaigns for the likes of Christian Dior, Marciano and Tommy Hilfiger - says that she gives most of her clothes away after wearing them once.

She explained: "I never wear an outfit more than once unless it's like a really cool pair of jeans or a leather jacket."

And the blonde beauty admitted that she has a lot of unworn clothes in her wardrobe.

She said: "I still have so many clothes in my closets that still have the labels on. I see them so often I think I've worn them but then I realise I haven't. So I either give them to my friends or donate them to a charity so they can auction them off."

However the heiress revealed that she can't always donate her clothes to her friends as they don't always fit.

She told Heat magazine: "I'm quite lucky I have small breasts and that means I can wear most clothes. Some of my friends have bigger breasts but I can wear pretty much what I like. It's a real shame though because it means I can't pass my clothes on to them, because they'll be too small around the bust."

pretty sure my brasts are bigger than lamp's

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