alternatives to auralee?
Like the title says primarily looking to hear if anyone knows any alternatives to auralee that has similar quality or similar offerings.
primarily looking for clothes that drape well and great fabrics
Our legacy provides this imo and i already have stuff from them but am looking for other more stuff as well. Lots of companies do the drapey oversized dress shirts with pleats kind of look but any of them do intresting fabrics/ high quality fabrics that are still nice cuts?
I know of another aspect, sunflower, A kind of guise, stein and some others. But im not sure how their quality stacks up to auralee and our legacy.
so if anyone has any information or recs lmk pls
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I find A Kind Of Guise incredible and so much more interesting than Auralee
As someone who's not really a fan of those northern European brands in general
I love my Auralee yellow oxford shirt, but it's so boring in comparison to the AKOG stuff out right now
Graphpaper I've been hearing buzz about lately
I will say that OL can be kind of inconsistent from my understanding. Definitely have had my ups and downs with them qualitatively
Agreed I want interesting patterns and designs and colors auralee is extremely bland
Will check it out
Will check it out as well , wanted more confirmation before I start looking into those brands also
Oh, Kaptain Sunshine may be up your alley too
Sadly Japanese sizing and me don't always get along well lol , I can't wear everything from auralee even because I'm a size 5
If you're not already within the sphere of menswear guy stores, you should check out this bunch to see what may be up your alley:
Neighbour
Wallace Mercantile
C'H'C'M
Ven.space
Lost and Found
Canoe Club
They all kinda curate with intentions like yours in mind
Yeah I look through most of them outside of ven space but thanks for the fine tuned list
Herill if you haven't checked them out. It took a while for them to click with me, but I see now that they're as if Auralee and Orslow had a baby.
Still trying to understand the appeal of A.Presse
Have u guys tried Carter young by chance ?
I've touched his dress western shirt thing, but it didn't really speak to me 🤔
@goofus you have anything else on hand?
MfPen, Needles, Berner Kühl, Sage Nation, Merely Made
Sunflower does stack up in quality imo
in general within the price range of most of those brands the quality doesnt vary too much
look at the japanese stockists for auralee and then go to the brand list
comoli comes to mind. (has lots of second hand, but check sizing)
A presse yeah
graphpaper is unforgiving for taller people fyi
Irenisa is a favorite of mine, actually fits me too
Is it weird that I find them like close to darkwear-y with some of their garments? Might just be the buys in my area
yeah a vast majority of it is like navy/black. I think a lot of their stuff fades quite quickly, which is different than most darkwear
Studio Nicholson maybe?
I'm 6+ so graph paper probably won't work for me
Yeah that's something else I hate about Japanese stuff is just very bland a lot of times
definitely the game you play in this world of stuff
One piece could look transcendent to ya but boring to your friend that's into the same shit
Just about what details you value
comoli borders on both like Yoke tbh
James Coward?
Been to Ven space a lot of times . Staff is amazing and welcoming