[ConservativeInPA]

Chicken wings, chlorine ... what's next? Clothing is next. I have been trying to buy some clothes the past few days. My wardrobe is established, so I only very rarely need to buy clothing, somethings maybe every 10 years or so. Being a conservative I buy the same classic clothes that I have been wearing for over 50 years. I buy quality and clothing that lasts. Maybe I am picky, but I just want for casual wear, three classic button down oxford shirts - long sleeved, loop and pleat in on the back, with regular shirt tails, none of this trendy sloppy looking untucked shirt, straight cut bottoms. I don't want some polo player or other advertising logo on the pocket. I am not a billboard. They are not paying me to advertise and I certainly don't want to pay them to advertise for them. I want them in my size; three of them, one white, one blue, and one yellow/maize. I'm a thin guy. I want the neck size within a half inch. I am not buttoning the top button or wearing a tie with these shirts. I want the sleeve length to the inch. It seems that all they make anymore are for fat/big people and sizes are limited. I do not want too buy using S/M/L etc., which seems to be the norm. Using measurements to buy insures a correct fit.

There once was a time I could go to LL Bean or Lands End online, have several choices of fabric, any color I wanted and every size was in stock. But that was 10 or 15 years ago. Before the Internet going back to the 70's, I would buy from their paper catalogs. About the only change I have made over the years has been in the fabric, opting for no-iron over 100% cotton. I don't want business dress shirts, nor to pay excessively. Beyond Bean and Lands End, I have checked Brooks Brothers, J. Crew, Jos. A Bank, Duluth Trading, Orvis and several other places. I have even gone as far as looking on Amazon. Amazon has their own brand now and it appears from the reviews that they are junk - thin fabric and people complain that they are semi-transparent. I want a shirt that is going to hold up for 10, 15 years or until I die.

Maybe I am picky, but I didn't have this issue in the past. I don't want some untrusted brand and I don't want to go to a bespoke tailor to buy a casual button down that fits.

This country is looking more and more like the former Soviet Union. Back at the height of the food and paper product shortages, I explained to my daughter how the grocery store shelves compared to the old soviet days. I did that while standing in line for the meat counter, and of course loud enough for other shoppers wearing useless face diapers to hear.

[Mouton]

I do not want too buy using S/M/L etc., which seems to be the norm.

EXACTLY how I feel. I also do not wish to only deal with made to order just so I get something that fits properly rather than looking like the guy at the middle of the prisoner line.

[PersonOfNo Consequence]

If you’re not proud you might with luck find some in a thrift shop. I know it’s long odds, but it might be worth a try. I lucked onto a pair of very nice Jos. Bank button-down oxford cloth dress shirts in my size a few years ago. If they were used I couldn’t tell it.
It used to be that one could find some decent shirts cheap at places like T J Maxx or Ross, but nowadays it doesn’t seem so. I guess that’s at least partly because not many people wear nice stuff any more.

[SamAdams76]

I get almost all my clothing from LL Bean. About 7 years ago, I stopped paying big money for dress shirts and started wearing LL Bean button-down shirts to work. With a tie and sports coat. Nobody said anything as the quality of those shirts is pretty good. I still have the original shirts from 7 years ago and they are still in great shape.

Now with the pandemic and all, nobody wears suits and ties anymore - not even in Manhattan. So the LL Bean clothing ended up being a good choice. I haven't bought a business suit in over 10 years which is fine by me as they were so incredibly expensive and if you did not get a bespoken suit, it was basically a waste of money.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Shortages will also include all chicken and pork. Beef will be unavailable thanks to Biden’s environmental BS. Get the Soylent Green scoop trucks ready.