ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

that link isn't working but this has been a disastrous year for almost every midrange mall/chain clothing retailer (delias, american eagle, bebe, pacsun etc)

oh no not bebe

Yeah what took bebe so long? American Apparel trading @ $0.032 on the pink sheets

add the final hyphen for the link to work

in the uk j crew is just converted straight from dollars to £ - you could buy a lot of far nicer stuff for the same price.

i went to a wedding on the bebe estate once, p nice

do we have a bag/luggage thread?

i really want this bag

http://i.imgur.com/G9F9pLa.jpg

J Crew "discounts" look like the exact same discounts they've had p much every day (but "today only") for the past 2-3 years. Still looking forward to post-Christmas when I can hopefully get the topcoat I've been eyeing for under $300.

umm that bag is amazing xp

went ham at uniqlo black friday

that bag marks the moment that ils has moved decisively into the realm of things my mum had in the 90s

http://www.chromedelivery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/arizona-tea-iced-tea-with-raspberry-flavor.jpg

gr8 i like that a lot. i remember coveting the pendleton weekender with similar look last xmas but i never pulled the trigger. i ended up wussing out and getting a porter overnighter instead #regrets

the most 90s mom thing is streetwear shit that looks like this

http://i.imgur.com/G24qHrX.jpg

lol i would wear that

its not terrible

browsing the Frank & Oak website I got the feeling that maybe the "drycleaned outdoorsman" look is finally dying/dead?

Suddenly so many non-plaid shirts available

bought these seinfeldwave jeans today

https://cdnd.lystit.com/photos/d390-2014/08/12/levis-blue-511-light-stone-wash-slim-fit-jean-product-1-22410925-1-564221304-normal.jpeg

browsing the Frank & Oak website I got the feeling that maybe the "drycleaned outdoorsman" look is finally dying/dead?

feel like the whole workwear thing has faded away a lot.

Maybe it's always this way with massive fashion swings, but it felt to me like first it long overstayed what I thought was its played-outness and then suddenly it went away very quickly.

Now I feel like the looks are more unabashedly fussy, less ironically manly.

i still see the odd nice thing and i dunno, i think shirt jackets are kind of cool, or some of the japanese workwear is nice, but like wearing lots of plaid or brown or whatever, i dunno. lots of marketing of masculinity going on.

My SO is very upset that pleated pants are back. They never left DC, and he has been almost single-handedly (-leggedly?) swimming upstream on that.

pleated pants should never ever come back

I love pleats

i quite like that floral zip up thing and i've seen people wear similar things like that that look good, but i don't reckon i could pull it off.

I'm on board with a pleated pants revival

Thread. Shark. Jumped.

I've been on board w/pleats this whole time

i like that kilim bag quite a bit but not sure i'd carry it around myself

are you pleats defenders in IT

I'm in IT. I do not defend pleats.

Fight the good fight. I'm guessing Chicago is about on the same fashion level as DC.

A skinny handsome model dude with perfect style can get away with pleats but everyone else should stay far away. Pleats will get SO abused in places like DC and Chicago if they come back.

i'm sure i've said this before but there are good pleats, very few of them but they're out there.

xp you don't need to be skinny to wear pleats, come on man

Not in IT. Just got my own thing to do.

Suits with high waists and pleats can look good on a guy who can actually wear high-waisted pants, i.e. doesn't have a gut.

the end of pleats was def good for most ppl but if u cn make them work then u cn make them work

the end of pleats was good for society

its kinda like writing when adopting an unadorned style can get you pretty far so thats why they teach ppl in school to take words out instead of add them

Pleats only work with a high waist. It's kind of how they're designed.

i have a suit w pleated pants but its just a single pleat u cn barely tell

Oh also khaki pleats are terrible and are probably what we think of when we talk about IT workers. Dockers and all that.

Dockers is such a funny name.

https://nickshell1983.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/pleated_work_pants1.jpg

its just like how in german u cant display the swastika our nation needs to heal

yeah feel like suit trousers have a fairly light pleat quiet often - is the hatred more for those really pointy pleats?

i dunno, i wear jeans or sweatpants p much always.

xpost the pleat was originally a buddhist symbol

lol tru

khaki pleats are so weird, like how did it even happen where you take a fabric that doesn't drape at all and give it something that relies entirely on drape