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This is why I put a lot of energy into finding brands that are transparent with their materials and that I can trust for quality. Once you find these brands yo
by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
This is why I put a lot of energy into finding brands that are transparent with their materials and that I can trust for quality.
Once you find these brands you can buy stuff without worrying about whether it’s going to suck.
For dress shirts, definitely do Made-To-Measure (MTM). There are a bunch of brands that do good MTM shirts. Look on styleforum.net.
I like Proper Cloth, but have heard good things about Luxuire and Collaro as well. Kamakura as well, but I don’t think they do MTM.
Proper Cloth actually does MTM jeans as well.
- deathanatos 2y agoAnd perhaps that's the problem: they're 4 to 6 times more expensive than decent stores (Old Navy runs ~$40, on jeans, for example, vs. the $200-$300 base price on Proper Cloth), which themselves are a few times more expensive than the drop-shipped junk bin of Amazon. There's not enough "slack" in a (normal? middle class?) person's budget to support that. (There's no slack, really / I don't think I can justify living at such a price point.)
- ZephyrBlu 2y agoI feel like MTM jeans are pretty rare, and $200-300 isn’t actually that much for nice denim. I don’t think price is the main problem though. Most people could probably spend that if they wanted, they just don’t care about clothes enough to do so, which is completely fair. Unfortunately it seems like people balk at even spending $100 on a piece of clothing. Also, Old Navy is a Gap brand. I would consider it fast fashion. Nudie and Naked & Famous are a couple of denim brands I would consider good.