ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

i like tattersall but its not exactly what im thinking of i know i am being PICKY tho

i had a tattersall shirt that was v cool once

i have a uniqlo flannel one on right now, i look vn

i wore it until it disolved off me

"sluiced" i think is the preferred nomenclature

Sloughed

I have a nice tattersall dress shirt I like that makes me look like a pad of graphing paper

bought dis one anyway it was on sale

http://i.imgur.com/uFMMjhb.jpg

if i like it maybe i will branch out into some non on sale tartans

Nice

i like that pattern

sweet

I started wearing Dockers this year because I had problems splitting the seat of all the mid-range, Macy's-bought wool dress pants (Nautica, Calvin Klein, etc.) I had been wearing. It was a choice between spending all this damn money getting them dry cleaned and mended all the damn time or buying a new pair of pants for $35 a couple times a year. I'm pretty happy with the Dockers, but yeah, one of them has the makings of a hole in the knee already because my legs don't fit into the seats on my commuter bus.

― how's life, Wednesday, August 7, 2013 8:21 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Okay, fucking sick of the dockers now. Wearing disposable clothes is so dispiriting. Really would like to find some higher-quality, sturdy twill trousers that are available in a 42 waist. Want something that could run the gamut from office casual to yard work. Would be willing to shell out extra money for something that lasts. Any suggestions?

you will def pay extra, but check out bill's khakis. i have never handled a pair but supposedly they're extremely well-made.

how's life you might want to look into a pair of carhartts, they have all kinds of pants, well maybe not dress pants, but many could easily pass in a business casual environment and they are all pretty sturdy

and not terribly expensive either

ime the best cheap trousers are lands end chinos on sale. http://www.landsend.com/products/mens-elston-608-slim-fit-chino-pants/id_247116 i think they are still too expensive here but if you wait for clearance + a 30% coupon you are looking at like $18 and they'll last a year or two. they are sturdier than dockers.

fwiw i also have RRL and unis chinos that i like a lot but i really don't think the cost (which is between 5 and 10 times the cost of the LE chinos on clearance) is necessarily reflected in the quality.

i love those lands end pants, strong buy rec imo. i don't believe the waist goes up to 42 though :/

Been noticing a lot of brands just don't seem to carry 31 waist size pants :\

true

can i just say buying trousers over the internet is mental

Thanks for the recommendations everybody. And yeah, I'd definitely prefer something I could try on and feel out for myself.

if you buy something that's returnable is it really a big deal? i get it, but there's so much high-quality stuff on the 'nets that isn't in most stores.

it means i have to put it in a package and go to the post office and then wait for the new pair to come, it just seems extraordinarily time-consuming. in a shop i know right then and there if something's not fitting or feeling right.

Order many pairs at the same time. That's what I do with shoes.

oh yea i hate buying shit online. i do it all the time because it still seems difficult to get to a store and have time to try everything on there. so i'll order like 8 pairs of pants, try them on at home, and keep one of them and mail the rest back. it's a pain in the ass. shopping pretty much in general is a pain in the ass

there is so much shit i see online that i have great hopes for and i anticipate the arrival of the package with great fanfare but then i open up the package and it sucks. "what, THAT shade of green? these are THAT thin and cheap? that's not what it looked like on the website!"

i find one make/style of item that i like and that fits and buy it in 500000 colors, all online.

I have a jacket in my trunk that I bought on Zappos for my kid that I've was supposed to get to a UPS store 2 weeks ago.

I buy most of my clothes online and it is a real hassle. I end up keeping a lot of stuff that I wouldn't have purchased if I'd had a chance to try it on in a store because it's good enough, more or less.

also god yes:

there is so much shit i see online that i have great hopes for and i anticipate the arrival of the package with great fanfare but then i open up the package and it sucks. "what, THAT shade of green? these are THAT thin and cheap? that's not what it looked like on the website!"

― marcos, Tuesday, December 9, 2014 5:05 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalin

Order many pairs at the same time. That's what I do with shoes.

― Jeff, Tuesday, December 9, 2014 4:59 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and then you send like 4 pairs back? that just sounds like an enormous pain in the ass. not to mention grossly wasteful.

if u work somewhere that u can ship stuff from this all becomes much easier

i.e. get a job at fedex tracer

fedex guy visits most workplaces!

and then you send like 4 pairs back? that just sounds like an enormous pain in the ass. not to mention grossly wasteful.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, December 9, 2014 11:28 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For sure wasteful, not going to argue with that one. And kind of a pain in the ass. It can suck carrying a big box with 5 pairs of shoes in it on the train, but I manage. To ship them back I just put them in my work outbox and the mail room takes care of it.

I do this primarily with running shoes, since going to a running shoe store with limited stock and a pushy salesman is the worst.

shopping on the line is the best and worst of times

like u can do it at ur leisure, think things over, comparison shop - but u cant try things on and u have to deal w the shipping stitch, i prefer it tho

companies (llbean, zappos) that include free return shipping labels in the box are god

amazon prime has em too but u have to print out yrself

also i live in the sticks so for a lot of stuff on the line is my only option

I know, and it's kind of shocking when you have to buy from a site that doesn't have a good return policy or fast free shipping with free return. I forget that everywhere doesn't work like Amazon/Zappos/Running Warehouse.

one wld think its gonna become industry standard in not too long

I've only returned things to Amazon twice but both times it let me request UPS come and pick up the box from our house, which was pretty amazing. That may not work out in the sticks.

it works but u have to pay for that if u drop off its free

lol i am so fucking coddled, it literally did not occur to me that most places in this world don't have 5 gazillion high street shops catering to every sub-niche of clothing preference

yah even in my major-ish city there's no more than a handful of brick and mortar retailers for mens clothes that are worth a damn.

Also even in a major city if you're big and tall, you're generally SOL.

oh god yes

or small and thin

or if ur too sexy

^^ that's really my problem