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Whats wrong with Banana Republic clothing?
It's not very expensive and not made in Japan.
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Whats wrong with Banana Republic clothing?
I love my Italian clothing but I also have found some excellent Banana Republic pieces. Casual only from the BR.It's not very expensive and not made in Japan.
Same thing. Very few people need a navy sport coat either. If you want one, be my guest, but don't let anyone tell you that you need one.
@StanleyVanBuren makes a really good point: often when people talk about 'basics' or 'essentials', there are a lot of unspoken assumptions about these things being basic or essential 'for where?', 'for who?' and 'for what?'
I love my Italian clothing but I also have found some excellent Banana Republic pieces. Casual only from the BR.
There's nothing wrong with Banana Republic. I was simply surprised it was being presented as "new information" by this influencer, as if every decent shopping mall in the USA didn't have a Banana Republic inside of it.Whats wrong with Banana Republic clothing?
I love my Italian clothing but I also have found some excellent Banana Republic pieces. Casual only from the BR.
I have found some of their linen and cotton fabrics to be very nice. Their casual tops fit me well right off the rack.The thing I think about mass brands like BR is they are constantly churning out a variety of ever-changing goods, always playing with different designs by many different designers on staff, sourcing fabric from many different places, and assembling the goods in various different factories across the world. So, there isn't necessarily a strong, common DNA running through all their items. It can be a bit of a grab bag where a lot of items suck due to cost cutting/profit maximizing as well as stylistically catering to a lowest common denominator, but sometimes the stars align where some pieces here and there are actually quite good.
Same thing. Very few people need a navy sport coat either. If you want one, be my guest, but don't let anyone tell you that you need one.
@StanleyVanBuren makes a really good point: often when people talk about 'basics' or 'essentials', there are a lot of unspoken assumptions about these things being basic or essential 'for where?', 'for who?' and 'for what?'
I always, and have always, tucked in my t-shirt. Probably has something to do with being in my late sixties? Then again I may be odd. I also always wear crew length socks.
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Yeah I should clarify, while I initially responded to @gdl203 that this was just about climate, my beef with the whole "every guy needs grey flannel trousers" extends a bit further than that. They occupy this weird place in formality -- same as the navy blazer now also being discussed -- that I personally have found to not really exist. I'm not making a broad generalization and I recognize this formality level exists in other places (NYC? London?), but in my life, I tried and never really found it. In California it seems like most things either require a suit or they don't (i.e. court does; office doesn't). So someone reading the internets that's been led to believe he needs a blazer and grey wool trousers is likely to be either slightly overdressed or slightly under-dressed, and other than the 1-2 days a year when I found I could wear mine, if the grey trousers are flannel, he's also likely to be too hot (though, maybe not in SF proper? @UrbanComposition does seem to make this work).
I suppose you can make an argument either way on any of this, especially if one is inclined to use multiple paragraphs and borrowed content.
which leads me to my next paragraph...
My initial comment was really just an anecdote based on personal experience and from having spent time on fashion forums for about 15 years or so. I wasn't targeting PTO initially, and will say that when I was starting out, I didn't read it or consider it a guiding authority. I made a joke about PTO only after DWW decided to turn this into a debate about something he wrote recently, apparently, although it doesn't seem like grey flannels were a huge focus of that article either (though they are mentioned along with grey wool trousers generally). I checked out the article since it seemed like that's what this ended up being about, and will say that I don't disagree on any particular point.