I like Uniqlo for basics.

For dress shirts, Charles Tyrwhitt is great.

Mohur Studio- Perfect shirts for summer with interesting prints and patterns. Mix of handspun linen, block-printed cotton, and voile fabrics. Around $100, which feels fair for the craftsmanship involved.

StoryMFG- If you can find pieces on sale, their natural dye work is incredible, though pricier.

Anyone have recommendations for dress shoes for small feet? I'm a 6 or 7 and struggling to find something that works. Would love colors other than black, too. Thanks!

Man, the brands I love right now are

• lululemon and Alo - these are my 2 go to daily drivers for t-shirts, long sleeves, and hoodies
• Ag Jeans - these are pretty much the only pants I wear besides….
• Paige - I have found a couple great pairs of pants and a couple shirts
• Faherty - couple linen shirts and a t shirt, and 1 pair of pants recently
• Vince - shoes and sweaters
• rag and bone - mostly some knit polos
• ten thousand - workout gear
• John Varvatos - shoes mostly

I think that’s mostly what I have been buying for the last 12-18 months.

Uniqlo

Whatever is in the sale rack closest to the door at the workwear store.

Are brands even still a thing? It's all cheap garbage made in Asian sweatshops now...doesn't matter to me what the name is.

Costco broski. Hurley quicksilver rusty tee shirts and shorts and for nicer casual callaway polo’s all at Costco for way cheaper than anywhere else.

The older I get the less I want a logo on any of my clothes

Favorite jeans are currently thrift Abercrombie and Fitch from the 00s. I love a straight leg with a button fly. My go-to for plain T-shirts is Sonoma. Really liking my Born chelsea boots after a few months of regular wear.

Great question. I used to wear exclusively Brioni, but now I've flown the coop and gotten into Stefano Ricci.

For a great Italian label that's much more affordable, though, try Gran Sasso. Really good stuff.

Abercrombie, Banana Republic, Lululemon

Joe, AG, Paige

I spent the money and got some lululemon shorts and I actually rlly enjoyed them. They’re worth the money imo

American Eagle (jeans) Hollister Underarmour

Got a couple of Eton shirts and they’re a cut above the rest of my wardrobe. Definitely notice people taking notice when I wear them!

Abercrombie is making the comeback of a life time the past 2 or so years.

I think Abercrombie has been amazing.

Like 5/6 years ago they were this uninspiring fake half luxury brand but now they got a couple of pieces that i love the look of that i cant find anywhere else. Quality has been great too

Seconded Marine Layer - great quality clothes and even better customer care!

Buck Mason has been coming out with some great affordable stuff. I usually have to wait for sales with the brands I like but not with them. Feels nice being able to afford stuff from the new arrivals section lol

Checks out. The name is essentially Huckberry, which started in 2011. Buck Mason started in 2013.

At their jeans' price point you could find excellent Japanese selvedge denim.

I’ll second this and add their button ups are both nicely stylish and unbelievably comfortable.

Carhart WIP. I like heavy T-shirts, they feel great quality and not mad expensive. A lot of the styles are a bit young for me but the quality seems always there

Drake’s, Engineered Garments, Universal Works, Studio Nicholson, Aaron Levine, Hebtroco.

None of these are cheap, but all are well made, durable, high quality clothing. I’ve got stuff from some of these brands that has been worn a lot over the years, put through the ringer, looks better now than when it was bought.

From what I understand. Carhart is a workwear brand, they make functional hard wearing clothes, they’re not supposed to be ‘fashion’, but have been adopted by hipsters and cool kids anyway. Carhart WIP was set up purely for fashion and looking good, there is a bit of a crossover to be fair. 

I've got a few Uskees newer items and a couple of older (2 to 3 yr old) Universal Works items. I could definitely see my Uskees work wear trousers and blazer etc lasting at least as long as my UW stuff. But a big fan of both.

Columbia are living their best life. They have hit the balance between styling for youth and also appeal to the 30’s+. They’re a daily wear such as puffers which work so well in urban environments but still work for those more rural environments, hiking and so forth.

M&S has clocked who their target demo actually are and are being a bit more fashion forward which has been great to see. Some of it is still a bit too Boden family for me though.

Free People

I wear clean cut, basic tees from everlane. Cuter tops I thrift from poshmark from madewell and Zara. I’d go to buffalo exchange or poshmark for tops, especially fast fashion. Just look for brands you’d typically wear.

Abercrombie actually has some adorable and classy pieces that are good quality. And if you can get them on sale, even better! I like to look for more fun and unique tops from thrift stores. I like having some basic quality pieces and then some interesting pieces that no one else will have. I also second what another commenter said— Plato’s Closet!

The real real is a good place to shop for higher quality. I also like revolve

What country/region are you in?

I used to collect the red tags that came with the t-shirts lol. My closet was pretty much ecko and sean john back in the day.

it’s coming back kinda. look at the over sized fits they have. i just got a shirt in that cut. it felt like an ecko with like shorter sleeves. when they shortened the tall tee and kept the arms a little longer it was my jam. i was gyming hard during those days so it felt nice to have it fill in. the new fit the kids wear is almost reminiscent but it just has the sleeves just a bit shorter

From graffiti artist streetwear to Walmart discount rack.

I miss Ecko!!!

Next to the Sean John's section