Brands to Avoid - Topic of the day 9/30/24
What's a brand that you feel should be avoided? This is not meant to be a 'shit on this brand' thread. I just want us to all talk about what brands to avoid and why to avoid them so that when new people come in like "hey should I buy this suit from Flag & Anthem" or whatever we at least have some sort of reference as to why they should not. Don't say Uniqlo or istg....
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Uniqlo
rick owens tbh
ann demeulemeester
I avoid brands based on association. For example, Stone Island because I don’t want to be known like that.
:timer: @seth has been timed out for 1 week. :timer:
everyone should avoid kapital. Definitely do not buy, especially second hand
don't make that mistake again unc
in fact avoid so much you should sell at a loss while you can
to me
I have seen exactly one good looking shoe produced by on in my life
That’s more than heydude
Obligatory Indochino
Ultra fast fashion like SHEIN or boohooman tbh
Yeah but heydudes doesn’t have a loewe collab so it’s not quite fair
common projects are all boring and for the price you could actually buy a sick ass shoe instead of looking like a dude who hates shoes
Will throw in the bottom barrel diffusion lines like Lauren Ralph Lauren, Jcrew Factory, those Nordstrom Rack-only lines, etc.
common projects are bad ass this entire thread is fake
Although just because Jonathan Anderson could make a good looking on shoe (and a bunch of ugly ones) doesn’t mean he could make a good heydude
hunts ketchup is weird man it's heinz all the way
man I'm just trying to get some real hate flowing this shit is weak so far
I actually think they make pretty cool other shoes too
I’m trying to stick to ‘brands whose products are all unwearable’ instead of ‘brands whose products I dislike’ so far but that might change depending how grumpy I get
Idk id still buy one if i needed a dress shirt fast or something
ive only ever seen the all white leather lows i genuinely don't have an opinion here
common project chelseas are hard
lole
They make a solid chunky derby
Not my fav but someone probably likes it
Oooo these are cute
I do like their Chelsea’s
gotta avoid sbux they're weird and evil if you are drinking sbux i see you and i am casting a hex curse on you
only for quality
i don't know her
she left me at a gas station in indiana
JL boots, the boots are good but he’s racist
I think everyone should avoid these brands
oh damn i was looking at siemens for an internship i somehow didn't know they were horrible
i was like ooooh boston rail rolling stock company
bro was gonna work for semen
@zeometer i’m gonna say it
Bode
has no-one said Thursday Boot Co yet?
Why exactly? I don’t have any experience with the brand but some of thier stuff seemed interesting if expensive
https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1201934856741982208
you can read most of bode chat (which is the majority of this totd)
if you want a better idea
Yeah I see
That makes sense
I’m being a little tongue in cheek when i say it, i don’t think Bode is the most problematic designer out their but there are certainly some ethical issues i see with her company. Its mostly a joke between me and Z who are both Bode haters
Hopefully this hits at the point of the thread, but purely on style and not ethics related:
Allbirds, On Cloud, and Hey Dudes are ugly.
Yeah, but still if your going to be giving someone $500-$2k for a piece of clothing I would want to fully support and like the ethics and ideas behind the brand. So it’s a fair point still
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Avoiding >99% of brands by never hearing of them or thinking about them or buying them
Anything off an IG ad. Unless a brand I like sends me an IG ad then it's :blushcatto:
Is this just real talk thread by another name
Absolutely no one should ever buy anything from Pas Normal Studios because everything about it sucks.
Is bare knuckles good
idk
average q&a ass post lmao
@cirque, please use the #questions-and-advice channel to ask your question.
Roasting your own post is crazy :xdcrying:
Idk why I thought this would be good
Shoulda known better smh I never learn
counterpoint
Sometimes u type it out and then see it floating there
And it’s a little embarrassing
Brands that make good clothes are bad, taking my money
i bought a shirt from the gap that was so bad i almost became a nudist
also for a less shitposty answer
I feel like I see a lot of younger people come in kind of gravitate towards ASOS/Pacsun as a starting point which is uhhhhh
Anecdotal: I once bought a Gap jacket on holiday because the weather got bad and it was half price. It's still a go-to jacket for me like 7 years later
I actually sort of agree with Uniqlo. For me it's been a coinflip between really solid for the price vs falling apart after a month
i got some joggers in the same order that i actually really liked (all over half off of course) but it remains that their ocbd selection is the worst thing to ever happen to a human torso
Uniqlo's never fallen apart for me but I definitely feel like they spiked their prices on their low end items too much to justify as a rec for basics
I think the obsession with 'quality' is a little overbaked/cope honestly. Short of the cheapest of cheap temu crap, I don't think any clothes are just unraveling after single digits of wear
i agree with that
airism switched to half poly -> +$5
ut cotton tees went way down in gsm and stitch quality -> +$10
yech
people act like mall brands sneak in mission impossible self destruct fabrics
agreed, however usually it means "what does this feel like in your hands", and uniqlo has felt noticably worse, thin, etc over the past 10 years
would be sick af to have my shirt spontaneously explode tho
I don't have experience with Uniqlo 10 years ago but their stuff is indistinguishable to me from 6-7 years ago
entirely possible I've just become more snobby
Agree, though uncomfortable and itchy is common for that stuff
im actually contrasting the gap ocbds with uniqlos which make me want to be a better son, friend, and brother
those make me self actualize as a person
theyre so good
Ocbd so good it got my boy reaching enlightenment
leaked Heliot Emil SS25 idea
just curious; in what ways are they different to some of the other big bike clothing brands?
Nobody has mentioned Hugo Boss yet
Overpriced garbage
My tailor uses hugo boss as shorthand for ill fitting clothing. Love that about her :xd:
Might be obvious but I'll also call out current Tommy Bahama and Bonobos. I appreciate the big body friendly stuff, but the quality is utter shit for the price in my recent experience.
Also Charles Tyrwhitt Imo. Really cheap dress shirts, but at that price point you can get much much nicer ones secondhand.
I'll defend Tyrwhitt when they do the 3 for 99 sale. I think that's a reasonable deal if finding vintage PRL etc is hard for ya
Maybe. Personally CT feels very much like "Inoffensive clothes you wear to not be naked"
Its okay at the 3 for 99 price point for mostly that purpose
throw Armani Exchange in that boat
:hell:
anything expensive at a mall is useless
malls are for buying the 3 things at uniqlo that fit you and then you go to the food court and go home
True. Le Collezioni has some nice stuff thats quite thriftable, but exchange is just not great
Usually anything that advertises on social media a lot. If I see an ad on instagram for a product I’m instantly suspicious.
>first time seeing the brand advertised
>it's a "going out of business 80% off" sale
many such cases
Idk I have some second hand boss that’s good bc it’s cheap
evan kinori
:nooooo:
Would be interested to hear why on this
I thought it was just a joke about price but
I’d be curious if there’s a real reason
it's a prank
i don't care for ek personally
O I C
but i understand the appreciators
I love a lot of the pieces, sometimes I really don’t get their styling on the site
I just like wearing expensive boring clothes
there is a huge market for this exact thing !
Necro, but the designs are terrible, it seems to suffer with being badly made & they select bad fabrics, and PNS is just an unfortunate acronym that somehow reflects some of their customer base.
Its a weird question, because what I can't stand someone else might really be into.
Now having said that, Kith
I avoid Dolce & Gabanna simply because it looks bad
I'm not scrolling up to see if someone already did this joke but should do 'i avoid people wearing x brand' next
Let’s also add Truman and Dayton to the list of horrible boot brands
Oh Wolverine too because they poisoned a whole town
what's the tea on dayton
last i heard they were mfa's like 12th place darling boot brand
TL;DR they tried commit wage theft and then defraud the Canadian government after they were found liable for it: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dayton-boots-decision-1.6663195
Smh.. lie cheat and steal, but don't get caught
woah
don’t get caught and don’t double down with an even more stupid lie
No darling, I'm not cheating on you! This woman is a urologist, and.............she's doing a house call!
18east
Shein, duh. They’re like the top planet murder
laughs in Temu
why is Uniqlo bad?
or to be avoided
i thought its good
I think it is a bit of an in joke about uniqlo being very much loved by this server while it arguably is not that much better than other fast fashion retailers which are hated
i see
not a joke uniqlo sucks
Basically everything new at that price point has propably been made under really shitty conditions. No matter what they try to tell you.
I don’t like EG anymore. It got tired fast.
duck
i also dislike the electoral gollege
I've never been to a gulag, but it sounds terrible!
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/japans-uniqlo-shirts-was-seized-by-us-customs-after-officials-suspected-they-were-produced-using-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/
a few days late to this but most fast fashion brands, uniqlo included, have been implicated in getting cotton sourced from forced labor. a report from the guardian in 2021 estimates that about 20% of the cotton in the world is coming from the Uyghur region of china. to me, a tangible benefit of supporting brands with ethical supply chains is knowing that I’m not directly feeding a system that oppresses people. if you like documentaries, The True Cost is a good one that outlines the environmental and human consequences of garment production
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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