Mens Clothing

[Joe_Elding]

Abercrombie and Jack Wills make you like lke DICKS.

The people that wear them are hated by pretty much everyone else.

[Fishy]

It's seen as a very 'private school' thing around shrews. They are all cock ends.

[Danny Swindlehurst]

what sort of clothing lol ? might help

[eskimo]

Down the local Tesco there is a shoe bank. A few years ago used to find several pairs of skate shoes. That was when skating was at a high though so i doubt there will be much in there other than Nike shoes.

But most people who do put shoes into them only put decent condition shoes in there.

So yeah, get down to your nearest shoe bank and have a rummage.

I'm also very very serious on this.

[Matthew62]

If you don't want to wear labelled clothes like they're a badge of honour then places like Topshop despite their connotations are actually very good. Bullshit like abercrombie and whatever, and so on, all this preppy bullshit is so tried, its a generic look adopted by those with no real opinion - as strange as this sounds, for me fashion is not strictly following a trend, but finding your niche within what is available, at the end of the day we don't all want to look like clones in our £60 polo t-shirts.

If you are lucky enough to have a Topman flagship store near you (like London, Nottingham etc) then there collection is extensive. From vintage wear, to tailored suits there is so much variety not just your typical 'Topman' look - that is of days gone by. 2 years ago i was the first to slate topman, but now living near a flagship i've seen how they've changed and there is some good stuff if you use your imagination. Website is extensive to which is good.

H&M is really making an effort too, again i live near a big one and they've got everything from beautfiul suits (not exactyl saville row but you know what i mean) to good csual stuff, again with a good variety. H&M stuff is getting a really good style about it and is doing well to compete with high fashion but at high street prices. Sure it is more expensive than burtons, and that sort of stuff but its in a different league. There summer collection is looking good.

Also, one thing to remember when paying for clothes, often the cost is not related to material quality. What you are paying for is the design, cut and tailoring.

For example, if you just want a plain t-shirt Primark offer them at £2.50, with H&M at £3 - the cut couldn't be more different. I won both and the primark ones whilst thicker cotton are dreadfully cut, really long, not a good shape at all, but the H&M ones sit on your shoulders well and are all round well made. That is what you are paying for. ALso bear in mind they're a continental company so sizings differ a lot to what you would expect - so you need to try on there.

Gap whilst often being boring has also got quite a good summer collection, with a good variety ,again not be quintissentially 'Gap'.

Don't relly on the high street, get in to the shops and have a look around. I personally wouldn;t bother with places like Burton as they're the most uninspiring, boring f**king clothes shops i've ever seen, kinda similar to River Island. Its all ben done before.

If you want to save cash these places are the way to go as boutiques whilst often having cool stuff will come at a cost as they dont have the same buying power.

Good luck finding some good stuff - mens summer fashion generally sucks.

[Tom_]

If you don't want to wear labelled clothes like they're a badge of honour then places like Topshop despite their connotations are actually very good. Bullshit like abercrombie and whatever, and so on, all this preppy bullshit is so tried, its a generic look adopted by those with no real opinion - as strange as this sounds, for me fashion is not strictly following a trend, but finding your niche within what is available, at the end of the day we don't all want to look like clones in our £60 polo t-shirts.

If you are lucky enough to have a Topman flagship store near you (like London, Nottingham etc) then there collection is extensive. From vintage wear, to tailored suits there is so much variety not just your typical 'Topman' look - that is of days gone by. 2 years ago i was the first to slate topman, but now living near a flagship i've seen how they've changed and there is some good stuff if you use your imagination. Website is extensive to which is good.

H&M is really making an effort too, again i live near a big one and they've got everything from beautfiul suits (not exactyl saville row but you know what i mean) to good csual stuff, again with a good variety. H&M stuff is getting a really good style about it and is doing well to compete with high fashion but at high street prices. Sure it is more expensive than burtons, and that sort of stuff but its in a different league. There summer collection is looking good.

Also, one thing to remember when paying for clothes, often the cost is not related to material quality. What you are paying for is the design, cut and tailoring.

For example, if you just want a plain t-shirt Primark offer them at £2.50, with H&M at £3 - the cut couldn't be more different. I won both and the primark ones whilst thicker cotton are dreadfully cut, really long, not a good shape at all, but the H&M ones sit on your shoulders well and are all round well made. That is what you are paying for. ALso bear in mind they're a continental company so sizings differ a lot to what you would expect - so you need to try on there.

Gap whilst often being boring has also got quite a good summer collection, with a good variety ,again not be quintissentially 'Gap'.

Don't relly on the high street, get in to the shops and have a look around. I personally wouldn;t bother with places like Burton as they're the most uninspiring, boring f**king clothes shops i've ever seen, kinda similar to River Island. Its all ben done before.

If you want to save cash these places are the way to go as boutiques whilst often having cool stuff will come at a cost as they dont have the same buying power.

Good luck finding some good stuff - mens summer fashion generally sucks.

I agree with this all, apart from this part about top man, EVERYONE now wears top man stuff I cant walk down the street in town without seeing someone wearing a t shirt I have. Admitedly I dont live near a flagship store, however the other day i visited one and considered buy a t shirt, then walked down the high street and whadday know I see a guy wearing the shirt. These days its REALLY hard to be individual.

I admit though that pretty much all of my clothing is from top man, luckily after about a month of them releasing a tee, people seem to stop wearing it so my oleder stuff is now less common.

I really really need to go shopping now though I have shit all clothes left.

[Matthew62]

Yeah i know what you mean. Although i must say strnagely enough i own quite a few t-shirts from topman which i bought a while back and i never saw anyone wearing any of them and i live in Notitngham so theres a big sudent population....always thought i'd see atleast one piece, but nope. But i know that is rare.

So many people look the same and it is increasingly difficult to be individual, but more often stlye is with the individual, not the clothes - how stuff is put together is more importan to me than the items on their own.

With some of my clothes i've seen a few people who have the same top/shirt whatever - but i prefer the way i work it. If you ever do get a chance to get to a flagship you'll be impressed with the extended stuff, but being a man its still not anything compared ot what the women get. The womens sections in Nottingham topshop is absurd - so much stuff - men get a rough deal!

[Revell-Bikes]

Abercrombie and Jack Wills make you like lke DICKS.

The people that wear them are hated by pretty much everyone else.

im sure these kind of people couldnt be possibly be hated more than chavs?

[Mark W]

www.uniqlo.co.uk

Jeans

Their awesome new "UT" T-shirt collection

Click on their site for other stuff, but yeah, they have a really good selection of stuff, and their clothes all fit really nicely. Their jeans last a decent length of time too, bit of a result

[Max Quinn]

Personally i'm into the more Hip Hop side of skate companies. I think Topman and stuff are just bullshit companies playing off the latest 'scene' trend. I distinctly remember my local store having a tslogan ee shirt mocking 'new rave' and then literally 4 months later having slogan tee shirts supporting it

Everything i've had from most high street stores like Topman i've also found to not feel as good on me and f**k up quicker.

I'd rather support companies i actually LIKE which generally involves skate/hip hop/street art based stuff i guess you could pool into 'urban'.

Companies like Fenchurch, Zoo York, Dephect, Carharrt, Addict, Concrete Hermit, LRG, Circa, King Apparel etc.

Urban Industry is pretty good for stuff like that.

[Matthew62]

I'm sorry whilst everyone is entitled to their opinion you cannot mock Topman/shop for following the lastest scene and then support Hip Hop Stlyed skate wear......what is that then? Its a scene. Whilst in many areas of life people can be persiciuted for following a trend (like coloured trials for example) - fashion is exactly that. Of course its what you as the individual make of it, but fashion is derived from 'trends' - if any fashion company did not follow a trend they would not sell anything.

Clothes get watered down from catwalk collections which are determined by people actually called ''trend-setters'', there are only around 10 people in the world who have this job and they literally set each years/seasons trend. From there designers take these trends ot the catwalks. Top names will sell a slghtly watered down version of these clothes ,and high street brand such as mentioned in this topic will sell an even more usbale commercial version. But it is exactly what it is - a trend, nothing more. Thats while you'll notice much of womens wear this summer is white - because it is this summers trend ,last year it was nautical.

You can't knock fashion for followiung trends as thats where the term is derived from and it is exaclty what fashion is all about it does NOT mean we all have to look the same, but trends come and go - such is fashion.

You are as mucvh a part of it as anyone else, you just prefer your niche of it, which is just as commercial as any mainstream label. By providing clothing to suit a counterculture (urban fashion) is as much of a commercially driven idea as selling new rave t-shirts in topman, it is no different, you are no different.

We all buy in to a consumerist society and unless you make you own clothes or buy past goods ,you have no option but to follow a trend - whatever that trend may be!

[Joe_Elding]

im sure these kind of people couldnt be possibly be hated more than chavs?

People that wear nike, adidas typical JD, spotsworld stuff etc (which im guessing youd define as chavs)

-chavs

-sports players

-lounging around clothes

- lower class people.

people that wear abercrombie/jack wills:

- private school boys who go around shopping with there fake tan girlfriends and look down on everyone else.

so no there obviously not as hated as chavs, but on the whole there a lot more hated than people that just wear your standard spports clohtes.

edit: spelling.

Edited May 9, 2008 by Joe_Elding

[Max Quinn]

I'm sorry whilst everyone is entitled to their opinion you cannot mock Topman/shop for following the lastest scene and then support Hip Hop Stlyed skate wear......what is that then? Its a scene. Whilst in many areas of life people can be persiciuted for following a trend (like coloured trials for example) - fashion is exactly that. Of course its what you as the individual make of it, but fashion is derived from 'trends' - if any fashion company did not follow a trend they would not sell anything.

It's a scene for sure, but one that i want to be involved in. I'm not 'mocking topman', just expressing my dislike for that scene. In my eyes, it's a scene that just jumps on the good bits of other scenes and leeches off it.

You are as mucvh a part of it as anyone else, you just prefer your niche of it, which is just as commercial as any mainstream label. By providing clothing to suit a counterculture (urban fashion) is as much of a commercially driven idea as selling new rave t-shirts in topman, it is no different, you are no different.

I'm not saying i'm different and not part of a 'commercially driven idea', i'd just rather support commercially drivin companies that i feel like i have something to do with and that (i hope) are putting money back into the things i love. I also like to support clothing companies who support the artists i like, not only to give back to them but also because i think their work looks better then what you see on tee shirts in top man. I haven't yet seen a tee shirt in topman (and i am in there a fair bit cos mates shop in there alot) that strikes me as original and nice and as something i couldn't knock up in photoshop myself.

You can't knock fashion for followiung trends as thats where the term is derived from and it is exaclty what fashion is all about it does NOT mean we all have to look the same, but trends come and go - such is fashion.

But that's the point, the people i see decked out in Topshop (or similair brand that's just the one i've chosen to pick on) do look largely the same. I couldn't tell anything about their personality (i was gonna say 'apart from the fact that they are sheeps' here but don't wanna rile you too much ) from looking at them and i like to try and get mine across.

For me high street shopping (and watford has a fairly decent shopping centre) in places like topman is just sooo unispiring and an awful experience. I walk from one shop to the other and all the stuff is similair. The atmosphere is awful. It's really hectic and it's not a place i want to be, which is reflected in my clothing choice i guess.

Walking around the back streets of Covent Garden (for example) going into some of the shops i mentioned is a really nice experience. The shops are decorated well, often with artists they support, the staff are friendly and i can relate to them., the atmosphere is very ambient. That is reflected yet again in my clothes choices.

Tannnnngent. But I was hardly gonna not explain myself.

[Tomm]

I agree with Max really. Topman and H&M do just jump on whatever bandwagon is popular at that moment in time. They're usually a few months late to the party though, so their stuff is never really cool in the scene it's intended to be.

I buy stuff from a few places, including Topman, Primark and H&M for cheap plain stuff and then more expensive places for other stuff. As long as you mix it up and don't just shop in one place, it's fine. I've even got a jumper from Tesco that I really like. Fits well, looks good, nice material and was cheap. The only problem is that any f**ker can go and buy it in any one of the thousand or so Tescos throughout the country, so it ain't exactly exclusive. So if you pay a bit more you can usually get something a bit rarer which is always good. Like Howies. That's the problem I have with expensive stuff like Abercrombie and some of the older chav makes like Burberry, Fred Perry. You pay loads for them but they're still common as muck if you go out on a Friday night. If you're just going to be a clone and copy everyone else, why not just go to H&M - at least it's cheap!

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

I agree with Max really. Topman and H&M do just jump on whatever bandwagon is popular at that moment in time.

H&M got Hedi Slimane now, the man dictates cool.

but yeah, it's not hard to not look like everyone else. just shop around.

[John Shrewsbury]

Topman, is one place i shop alot.

Also this new site which i ordered sum kool t'shirts from http://www.heroineclothing.com/, American company.

[Tomm]

H&M got Hedi Slimane now, the man dictates cool.

Well not knowing who that guy is, it's hard to get excited over that news. He does, however, have nice pictures of boobies on his website

[BeNNy]

Urbanoutfitters is alright

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

Well not knowing who that guy is, it's hard to get excited over that news. He does, however, have nice pictures of boobies on his website

used to be chief designer for dior.

also, his photo diary is great. many boobies.

[Boswell]

I am about to buy some shorts but in the discription it says "board shorts", do these type of shorts have netting in them?

[N.Wood]

Not always, no.

I'm currently wearing some Reef boardies which don't have netting.

[Boswell]

Not always, no.

I'm currently wearing some Reef boardies which don't have netting.

Looks like im going to have to tkae a risk then.

[Matthew_Gibson]

just send them back if you dont like them, most shops have a 30 days limit though..

how can some people spend over £30 on a tee shirt, I think £15 is fair. £20 if its a decent brand.

I shop mostly in the sale stuff anyhow, get some right bargins!!!

[Sneakers O'Toole]

You'd pay £30 for trainers though i guess and no one really looks at them. I don't mind paying for clothes as they are the only things i spend money on apart from rent and food although i did have to draw the line at £130 for a black t-shirt cuase it was half a months rent.

[Matthew62]

Looks like im going to have to tkae a risk then.

I once ordered some shorts that i dind't realise had netting, if you like the shorts that much, do what i did.....just cutting the netting out. Proably be a bit hard to unstitch it but you could try ,but cutting it out is no problem.