[Igottago]

Originally Posted by Claeren

Hey, if you are paying what Banana Republic and Zara now ask for their clothes you should follow my prior advice and at least get some quality for your money.

BR (etc) is BRUTALLY over charging you. You could get a hand tailored shirt, in high quality fabric, in a limited edition, from Montreal or Italy for roughly the same price as the over priced pieces of crap that BR sells that are pattern rip-offs from the better fabrics from the REAL stores from last year, manufactured (shirt and fabric) in the third world, on substandard fabric bases.

It was cool when they would charge like $65 for a shirt. But now that they often ask well over $100 for them it is just brutal.

I have been getting Klaus Boeler and Dagr shirts on sale for ~$100 a peice and they have double fabric/weight cuffs, convertable to french cuffs, solid collars, much nicer buttons, tailored to fit me, in cool custom fabrics. No comparison to mall clothes at all except in price.

Claeren.

Well I only usually buy BR stuff that is on sale, I agree that their regular prices can be outrageous. Zara actually isn't bad, most of their dress shirts are around $60 and have a pretty decent cut to them. I'm not really familiar with the place you mentioned, maybe I'll check em out. The reason I mention these mall places is because they're easy and they also sell other, non dress clothes that I like, so I shop there more often anyways. As for the specialty menswear stores like you shop at, I always assumed they were way more expensive and out of my league.