I will add dry cleaner to your list! It’s impossible to find a good one, at least where I live. It’s gotten to the point where I avoid most clothing labeled dry clean only because I don’t want to stress about cleaning it. If I can use Dryel (wool/cashmere, nothing lined), or handwash in the sink (silk), then I will consider it, but it takes enough effort that I would rather just pay a dry cleaner - if I could only find a good one.
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Yes yes yes. I am really frustrated with the decline in quality in clothes across the board but especially at brands you'd find at big department stores. Never mind anything mid-tier like low hundreds. I have been obsessively trying to research high quality lesser known brands but I am not finding much. I know people like to trash big name designer RTW quality but honestly it is generally still better than random mid-tier brands. Open to suggestions if anyone has them. I KNOW there has to be some great brands out there who just don't have the publicity.
I don’t think clothes are made to last anymore. Everyone just has too much of everything; it’s easy just to get something new and “get rid” of something old. I guess it is rather pointless to make clothes that last (I.e. don’t pill, get misshapen, shrink terribly, come apart at the seams, are so see through holes develop…) since people are so used to throwing things out these days.
As for me, I’ve gotten so tired of never finding anything I want to buy in store that I vowed to learn how to make my own clothes. I’ve made one tank top so far 😂
As for me, I’ve gotten so tired of never finding anything I want to buy in store that I vowed to learn how to make my own clothes. I’ve made one tank top so far 😂
John smedley knitwear. I still wear DH’s JS merino wool sweaters.
I love my new Joseph gabardine trousers which arrived today (I already have the gabardine leggings but these are tailored trousers).
As @Christofle agrees, gabardine as a very cat fur friendly fabric!
I also love it for itself-even in my very early 20’s (when I looked about 12 but dressed 40) I had 2 Yves Saint Laurent gabardine suits, one black, one navy-with a Lot of alteration as I was so small!
I keep a pretty minimal wardrobe (about 100 pieces max), but shop every season, so although I don’t buy high street clothing - I have about half a dozen pieces of Zara-I DO buy some things like Skims T-shirts and Sweaty Betty which are inexpensive so that I don’t mind donating them after either 1 or 2 seasons to make space for new pieces of designer rtw.
In my 20’s most of my clothing was Chanel, some Valentino, Claude Montana for leather, with 2 pairs of silver tab Levi’s for casual and a couple of tops-something like Romeo Gigli, but Nothing high street ..even Haute Couture, and I wore everything to death, I was thinner than Twiggy but a lot shorter.
I don’t have such a glamorous wardrobe now, but good quality now comes at a very high price -when you can find it…I’m very brand loyal, and when I find a designer which works for my body type I stick to that designer..
As @Christofle agrees, gabardine as a very cat fur friendly fabric!
I also love it for itself-even in my very early 20’s (when I looked about 12 but dressed 40) I had 2 Yves Saint Laurent gabardine suits, one black, one navy-with a Lot of alteration as I was so small!
I keep a pretty minimal wardrobe (about 100 pieces max), but shop every season, so although I don’t buy high street clothing - I have about half a dozen pieces of Zara-I DO buy some things like Skims T-shirts and Sweaty Betty which are inexpensive so that I don’t mind donating them after either 1 or 2 seasons to make space for new pieces of designer rtw.
In my 20’s most of my clothing was Chanel, some Valentino, Claude Montana for leather, with 2 pairs of silver tab Levi’s for casual and a couple of tops-something like Romeo Gigli, but Nothing high street ..even Haute Couture, and I wore everything to death, I was thinner than Twiggy but a lot shorter.
I don’t have such a glamorous wardrobe now, but good quality now comes at a very high price -when you can find it…I’m very brand loyal, and when I find a designer which works for my body type I stick to that designer..
Studio Nicholson has wonderful fabrications....that's what they're known for. Prices are mid-range and most are made in the UK. The clothes are classic (a bit oversized). Not glamorous over the top clothing. I'm really drawn to these as they look very similar to The Row but more in my price range. Let me know if you get something from them or what you think. I have a dark navy trench from them I got on sale last year and a beautiful button down shirt I found on The Real Real.
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Thanks so much. I'll have to check it out and report back!Studio Nicholson has wonderful fabrications....that's what they're known for. Prices are mid-range and most are made in the UK. The clothes are classic (a bit oversized). Not glamorous over the top clothing. I'm really drawn to these as they look very similar to The Row but more in my price range. Let me know if you get something from them or what you think. I have a dark navy trench from them I got on sale last year and a beautiful button down shirt I found on The Real Real.
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