ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

i don't like bonobos

i gave them an honest chance when i went to their store on la brea (la) and it just wasn't my thing

i went to the bonobos store on 5th ave (right next to the untucked shirt store!) b/c i desperately needed pants and they told me i couldn't actually buy any pants there, i would have to order them and then pick them up later--"this is a showroom." fuck a showroom for pants.

the weirdest thing about untuckit to me is that lots of shirts look fine untucked. it's not a really rare attribute of a shirt

xp

that's there model, right? you just go and try it on and they order everything and have it delivered to you

I mean I have just found the quality of Bonobos products to be really bad for the money. There was a point at which they had my favorite polo shirt but then more recently I ordered some and they had clearly changed -- collars baconed after one wash (cold, hang dry) and never returned to normal. Their dress shirts feel rough and don't hang well on me, even the higher end ones (I bought one once on clearance). The pants are actually mostly fine, better than everlane, and I have gotten work pants from them a couple times.

Oh wait Untuckit is the most amazingly stupid name. But accurate?

― chinavision!, Wednesday, November 28, 2018 10:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There once was a man from Untuckit...

as far as dumb ex fratboy type brands go i got some "outlier" "futureworks" pants and they are good

Bonobos trousers — on sale — are a good deal. Nice colors, good fit. Haven’t tried their expensive shirts.

Thraed in which we post meaningless nonsense syllables at one another

I mean, someone could simply post "shmurple" right now and we would be like "Hmmm. I haven't heard of that site."

― Glasnostradamus (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:14 AM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

www.buykud.com
www.cupshe.com
www.baleaf.com
kingscat.com

Admittedly I blame Amazon for some of the more outrageous ones, like Qpladlse, Eomenie, Arinla, Quartly, Femaroly, Ladninag, Mansy, Romacci, Fumic, Sellse, YESNO, Floerns, AUSILY, etc.

I randomly started getting Marine Layer catalogs, another one where the name (and styles) feel a bit auto-generated.

xp. wow these are real?!

i am incredulous

Literally go on Amazon and search for any one of those.

have these made it here yet

https://knighthoodies.com/

as far as dumb ex fratboy type brands go i got some "outlier" "futureworks" pants and they are good

lol i have outlier jeans and a weird rain jacket thing from them and theyre both fantastic. tbh i like a bunch of their "Experiments" as i also love cowl necks and clothes made out of nanites or helicopter sheeting or living silk but they are often sold out when i think about getting them which tbh isnt all that often

feel like "ex-fratboy" is slotting the brand into the wrong sociological framework tho

$100 basic t-shirt, idk that just bugs me. I'm sure it's a great fucking t-shirt

just looking at their website and their chino pants on the homepage look v good and in general stuff looks more like nerdy yuppie that cares about clothes than fratty

well like a techy fratboy. or a prolific reddit poster who bathes.

i think outlier (and other post-workwear non-luxury brands) are kind of interesting partly because their customers are sort of undefined but they have this unifying aesthetic nonetheless. like "guys with non-media jobs that live in cities"? but i like their focus on process and material, i like that they are trying to engage with technology in a way that isnt just like, "this is sweater but also an app" or w/e. fwiw i spent the morning e-mailing back & forth w/a store seeing if they could get me this thermal storage hooded so

I've been feeling this urge lately to buy some vintage Body Glove shirts, although they may just not suit me at all.

I think this is v beautiful for example

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b7/69/b3/b769b3d73da939b29cd0a13d3d6508c1.jpg

i can dig it

some powerful looks

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hollywood-before-social-media-killed-stars-nightlife-1172719

nice

what is this brand Superdry? i see it mostly online. basic stuff, reminding me of American Apparel. it looks okay but is always really cheap which makes me wary.

nice too have some cheap pieces imho

crap cheap nonsense popular british clothing brand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdry

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/14/superdry-fashion

lol it appropriates japanese lettering but is in fact britisher!

the sun never typesets on the empire

Absolutely the ugliest possible clothes. Would rather wear puppy fur and blood diamonds

There’s actually a SuperDry store in a mall around here but I’ve generally thought of it more as a eurotrash brand and I usually assume people wearing it are tourists or recent immigrants.

well British people are European despite protestations to the contrary

speaking of Britisher apparel, my local Nordstrom has a Topman boutique and I just don't get it that line. Everything seems overstyled, like defiantly anti-classic, and that is fine, it's just that the directions it tends toward seem so "off", and tacky or obnoxious. Really not unlike Chess King (for other yanks) back in the day.

I totally thought superdry was japanese this entire time.

ya cheap clothes thatre basics are where its at imo like a plain navy tee shirt and whatnot ammy appy uniqlo etc

if you want some wool trousers, chinos etc that fit slim topman is not bad. it is sort of a british dandy basic bitch version of hot topic for people who probably wish they were big enough twats to buy everything from tom baker instead. THAT SAID i have bought things from topman and i daresay i'll do it again

lol tom baker i mean ted baker :)

Yeah I always see topman at Nordstrom/ on their website as well and I find it really unappealing. FWIW Ted Baker also seems to make shirts that look assholish in a subtle way.

I feel like topman is totally hit or miss depending on the year/who is working as designers. Most of those larger brands have a good two years and then everything is shit for three. Repeat.

Has anyone bought from the amazon line, Goodthreads?

a woman I went to high school with designs men's clothes for Lululemon, and I positively lust over their men's stuff. can't afford it though.

ask her for discount

in my fantasy she sends me a crate of seconds, last season, overstock. I could die happy with my closet of lulu

ime ppl w those jobs are pretty loose w the ol discounts............

British dandy basic bitch version of hot topic is my middle name

Yeah, lululemon men's is pretty nice. My spouse was really anti the brand but we had a sublet across from one for 6 months (that store had really good sales) and he loves the stuff now. It's really good for tall people.

what stuff does he like? the workout-y stuff or like the casualwear stuff?

He has some of both, basically he would get whatever was on sale that had his size. He likes it because the sleeves and torso are always long enough while being slim fit.