ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

Jcrew is like one up from from h&m in durability for 3 times the price in my experience

eef! yeah I mean tbqh I don't mind fast fashion if it doesn't look junky! Like if I pay $30 for jeans that last a year vs $150 for jeans that last 5 years idgaf! But idk if you can get, like, cheap fast fashion herringbone wool trousers

Jcrew is like one up from from h&m in durability for 3 times the price in my experience

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, February 22, 2016 6:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not their suiting stuff. And in the sales you can get stuff for more like 1.5x price.

The WSJ actually did an article a couple years ago where they had a bunch of tailors test out all of the inexpensive suiting lines out there for quality and J. Crew got the highest marks.

i don't own any suits but most suit pants i've tried on are quite thin -- is jcrew stuff thicker?

I mean they make suits in a variety of materials and thicknesses. The pants I'm talking about are relatively thick and wooly.

I think you have to shell out at least 100 of your American dollars for herringbone pants that don't look cheap and won't fall apart within a few months, esp if you ever want to out stuff in the pockets. I also have faith that you can find them on sale somewhere!

well this is the pant I bought, fwiw, if you search j.crew bowery herringbone you may find it in your size:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/J-Crew-Bowery-Slim-Pant-in-Herringbone-Wool-32-34-128-/231854024722?hash=item35fb93a812:g:ENoAAOSwnLdWqElA

are pants called "pant" now? "nice pant"

love that pant

lonely pant just thinking bout things

Good pant. I went pants shopping at Macy's yesterday and found many that I liked from the 50 to 75 dollar range, but nothing in my size. Annoying. I'm not a huge fan of buying pants online, the fit can vary so much.

yeah insane to me that people buy jeans pants etc online. "well you can just send it back" ok great lookin forward to that

i buy pants online, buying pants online rules.

trying trousers on in a shop, ok great lookin forward to that

lol i love it, feels decadent

and upon my exit i wave my hand - "take these, i have no use for them"

no buying clothes online is the worst! You can't interact with them or see how the fabric feels or see how it hangs on your body, goodness!! How much stuff looks great on a hanger and awful when you try it on?

the only stuff I'll buy online are different colors or patterns of shirts that I already have and know fit well

well you buy online with the expectation that you're going to send some/most of it back. it's a pain, but shops are awful places too.

and EVEN THEN remember the perilous admonition of that t-shirt size variability chart

xpost are they? they are places of wonder and possibility and ok admittedly rows of XL, S, XS and nothing else half the time it seems like

I'd buy online if I had a brand and style that I knew consistently fit, but I haven't found that yet. Like I'll buy unique shirts online because I know the smells fit me every time.

trippy

i hate buying clothes in general, either way it sucks. dressing rooms are horrible cramped spaces with shitty lighting and are always super warm. buying online sucks b/c so many things look good in a photo but look/feel like garbage when they come in the mail, then you have to deal with shipping things back and filling out return forms and printing shipping labels, fuck that

this is a major dilemma b/c i need new clothes here and there obv

Hmm uniqlo smells. SMALLS. Xpost

you just smell that shirt and you know it's for you

i like b&m shopping too but given the number of great web-only brands, the accessibility of smaller and/or international brands on the web, and the deals you can find, it's kind of silly to like reject online clothes shopping.

my needs are not that rarified, plus i live in one of the world's great metropolises = it is incredibly easy to not even be aware of 'web-only brands'. but frankly if i were stuck in, i dunno, bumblefuck i'd probably dress bumblefucky? unless the opp presented itself? you know how there's locavores, i'm a locahabille

plus the instant gratification! my god!! recall my one-day odyssey to purchase the short-sleeved red gingham shirt of my dreams! it was over and done with in a matter of hours. if i'd bought online, first of all who knows how it would have fit and REALLY looked - you should have seen me hemming and hawing between near-identical shirts along oxford street - but also i'd have had the chance to think better of it. no second-guessing!

lol yeah if i lived in a place with infinite consumer choice i might not concern myself with web brands, maybe it turns out i live in bumblefuck but like nice things, idk

i walked into a restaurant a couple of months ago wearing my velcro new balance hospitalcore shoes and some crust punk looking guy looked at my shoes and said "are those old man shoes? aw yeah!" and gave me a high five

i thought you avoided brooklyn?

this was at super taste on eldridge

if u liek ASICS they're having a nice sell thru Ebay, $50 Gel Lytes and such
http://www.ebay.com/sme/Mens-Shoes-/93427/so.html?rmvSB=true&_localstpos=75209&_fcid=1&_sop=15&_soffid=100&_clu=2&gbr=1&_ipg=192&_stpos=75209&_ssn=asicsamerica&_sme=Save-with-everyday-low-prices&_sid=2048038

update: have not yet worn my j. garcia tie a 2nd time

Anyone have any experience with Apolis? They seem to have decent-looking basics, prices are a little high but they use a "flash sale" model and the real (flash sale) prices don't seem ridiculous. Also have a slightly corny social entrepreneurship thing going, like a lot of these companies. Somehow I got on their mailing list.

Apolis (a–pöl–is) means “global citizen.”

http://www.apolisglobal.com/tasks/sites/apolis/assets/Image/4new-market-bags.jpg

lol canada

are those store locations?

oh, hahaha just saw what you were referring to

apolis stuff is too slim fitted for my taste

also i don't think quality is quite up to par with price

it's not "bad" stuff but at that price point you can get way better shit

I can't believe I've never checked this thread out before.

Guys I'm on the hunt for a long-sleeved linen shirt for the summer, something very unstructured ... to be worn untucked, maybe half unbuttoned, sleeves rolled up, on the hottest days. would love to find something in a deep, intense indigo, but other colors might work too (maybe grey, or cream). I was at uniqlo the other day but found their linen shirts sort of meh. of course they were only 40 bucks too. I'd be willing to pay twice that (maybe even more) for something really special by way of texture and color. So if anyone has any ideas re online sources (or b&m in the northeast usa), pls let me know.

http://i.imgur.com/aqdtT9d.png

enough with the monk strap shoes

they seem to be a thing among extremely uncool software engineers right now (that's not me btw)

i don't see anyone wearing them really - tho i don't see anyone dressing partic formally.

i think they're fine for a very formal occasion where you're wearing a suit, but they don't translate to casual at all.

knew a lame dude who waxed rhapsodic about double strap monk strap shoes