Clothes

[Ness Rowlah]

i'm starting a new job next week, and need to get another suit. any recommendations of where to go in London? need something pretty smart and 'normal', but i don't want anything too boring.

am up for going bespoke, if it's not silly saville row prices.

thanks!

High street? M&S Autograph range, or if that is too boring Top Shop for the skinny suits
or check out http://www.suitsupply.co.uk/ or http://www.asuitthatfits.com/ for cheaper "bespoke". Think I've seen some good reviews of the latter and they've got 4 London "outlets" http://www.asuitthatfits.com/shop/index.php?option=com_google_maps&Itemid=332

Might need one myself soon, let us know what you opted for.

 

[simon silverdollar]

nice one, thanks ness.

 

[simon silverdollar]

i need yellow socks and i need orange socks. bright and blocky, not fluro.
ankle length. cotton.
DISSENSUS, FIND THEM FOR ME NOW!

I'm loath to recommend the place, what with it being full of hipster scum, but that does sound like the kind of thing that American Apparel would do very well...their clothes are good, the people selling you the clothes are insufferable.

 

[petergunn]

I'm loath to recommend the place, what with it being full of hipster scum, but that does sound like the kind of thing that American Apparel would do very well...their clothes are good, the people selling you the clothes are insufferable.

yo, do you have those in england? i ask purely for selfish reasons b/c i guess that would mean that my radio show would get heard there...

 

[luka]

thanks boys... might have a brave a trip to AA on saturday.... they got something which is close enough...
ps gunn, they got them in sydney too...

 

[Simon78]

i'm starting a new job next week, and need to get another suit. any recommendations of where to go in London? need something pretty smart and 'normal', but i don't want anything too boring.

am up for going bespoke, if it's not silly saville row prices.

thanks!

The Paul Smith sale shop has a load of nice suits. They have a pretty big discount off the normal price.

23 Avery Row
Mayfair, London, W1K 4AX
020 7493 1287

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=ut...ass4A6&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=1

 

[nomadthethird]

Alexander McQueen in case you couldn't guess

 

[mms]

Alexander McQueen in case you couldn't guess

i get the feeling he doesn't actually like women much

 

[Mr. Tea]

i get the feeling he doesn't actually like women much

Or feet. Or eyes.

 

[Ness Rowlah]

I'm loath to recommend the place, what with it being full of hipster scum, but that does sound like the kind of thing that American Apparel would do very well...their clothes are good, the people selling you the clothes are insufferable.

Spotted these at hipster-hangout Urban Outfitters last week, got stripes though.
Think they got mono-coloured ones at some of those tailors at Savile Row, but they are probably 20 quid (guessing here, I would not dare to set foot (sic) in there).

http://www.urbanoutfitters.co.uk/Sh...bklist=icat,5,shop,mens,mensbrands,happysocks

 

[zhao]

Alexander McQueen is fucking awesome.

 

[cobretti]

Finally got a new jacket, ended up going for a woolen Penfield parka. It's reet warm so it gets the thumbs up from me, money well spent.

 

[Ness Rowlah]

Arc’teryx Veilance Gore-Tex coat for the man who has everything and 925 quid floating around in his wallet (via a continous lean).

 

[empty mirror]

Finally got a new jacket, ended up going for a woolen Penfield parka. It's reet warm so it gets the thumbs up from me, money well spent.

nice pick up!

 

[nomadthethird]

i get the feeling he doesn't actually like women much

Why do you get that feeling?

 

[Slothrop]

Arc’teryx Veilance Gore-Tex coat for the man who has everything and 925 quid floating around in his wallet (via a continous lean).

Gah. Really hate the whole 'mountain style' thing. It always just seems like a horrible peversion of functionalism. A coat like that is fairly pointless to a mountaineer (lacks obvious stuff like a helmet compatible hood afaict) but then uses expensive materials like ProShell that are basically pointless unless you're also wearing wicking base and midlayers eg not a cotton t-shirt or a hoody. Pure pseud value. Grumble grumble grumble.

On a completely unrelated note, I'd never been to Banana Republic before this weekend - precisely what undesireable market segment do I fall into for thinking their stuff is really quite desireable in a pseudo-preppy-I-can-sort-of-just-about-afford sort of way?

 

[mistersloane]

i need yellow socks and i need orange socks. bright and blocky, not fluro.
ankle length. cotton.
DISSENSUS, FIND THEM FOR ME NOW!

Corgi do really great socks, if you're the type of man that would wear a sort of thing like that. They're favoured by the Prince of Wales you know.

http://www.woodsofshropshire.co.uk/shop/mens-socks/socks/cashmere-socks

 

[mistersloane]

On a completely unrelated note, I'd never been to Banana Republic before this weekend - precisely what undesireable market segment do I fall into for thinking their stuff is really quite desireable in a pseudo-preppy-I-can-sort-of-just-about-afford sort of way?

I think, unfortunately, it's direct GQ reader target audience. I'm not knocking it - or you! - I thought with a sinking heart the other week about how one of my favourite items of clothing is from Gap, and how far I've fallen - but I think it's GQ, they kind of mix up BR stuff with things we can't afford, like all these :

http://www.brooksbrothers.com/IWCat...or=COFFEE&sort_by=&sectioncolor=&sectionsize=

which I think I would kill for at the moment.

 

[zhao]

Why do you get that feeling?

edit: because they don't look comfortable is my guess.

but Mcqueen's work is not about being comfortable...

 

[3 Body No Problem]

because he doesn't know what McQueen's work is about or its history and is commenting on those shoes not looking comfortable, or conforming to standard notions of beauty.

Video to go along with the show in question here!