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Is there a good simple clothes place? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I have an issue:

TLDR: I live in E Europe and would just like a site or app where I can shop for good quality, consistent, reliable, brandless, fashionless, timeless, standard, printless, good material, fairly priced clothes.

I usually like to buy bulk (2 long house jogger pants, 5 t-shirts of the same brand and form, just different basic colours, 2 black jeans, 7 pairs of socks of the same kind, 7 pairs of undies for example) and get it over with.

The closest i have found are C&A and H&M so far. I'd like even more simplicity and a bit better build quality.

"Fashion" conglomerate apps both second hand and new, contain the opposite of what i want in clothes: overpriced, varying quality, brand heavy, print/logo heavy, exotic cuts, weird colors, dated, impractical clothes.

I dont like needing to visit many generic online shops and flip the coin on build quality, and i dont like going to many online stores and finding the simple, honest clothing i like scattered one-three items on each brand.

I specifically want to avoid popular labels because that costs extra and the price is high for the label, not for the actual item of clothing.

Is there one app to unify this for me, or is there a company that just has fair prices and no fuss? And by no fuss, I also mean, i don't want some brand that sells me a white plain t-shirt for 100$ and makes this precious pageantry out of minimalism.

Sorry if i come off as bitter, but it's really difficult for me to just find simple stuff, and i am already fed up with it being such a chore after half a life. Simply because i have such simple requirements, its very difficult to find what i want.

Thank you in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm afraid it will be very difficult to find a company that produces clothing with the expected amount of quality, practicability, good design that will distribute it brandless, cheap & with high availability.

I've been on he same Quest, with similar requirements.

It's not for everyone and some brands don't really have minimalism in mind, but i've been very satisfied buying some clothes from the Hiking-Corner. Salomon for example - they have a good design, mostly muted colors and the materials are awesome.

And they hold back with too much Logos on their pieces.

The climate change is getting to a point where the kind of material your clothing is made of, really makes a difference.

They have some ultrathin materials that feel you are wearing nothing and that's a treat on hot summer days.

This is not an ad for salomon lol - it's just that functionality & durability have gotten more important when i choose new clothing and have been happy to compromise a little bit on the "pure" minimalistic aspect of it all. But the thing is, some hiking focused brands have evolved to a point, where i don't feel like making too much of a compromise, because i really like their designs.