1. Are there any good small (~50k subscribers) reddit subs that are good for questions about clothing/fashion? I only know about the gigantic subs with 1+ million subscribers. Posting there is always a total waste of time. Plus all the rules and bots are annoying as fuck.

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  1. I’m looking for a online store that that has affordable colorful long-sleeve equivalents of what Old Navy calls camp shirts. Suggestions?
    Short-Sleeve Camp Shirt | Old Navy

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Edit 1

About once every couple years - I get a hankering for a colorful long-sleeved shirts. But then I google and google and google and google and I learn that only odd-ball clothing firms sell a few versions and they cost a king’s ransom.

Edit 2

I had to remove the word “affordable”. I can’t expect miracles - long-sleeved versions are rare. I’d be willing to go up to $100. And beyond - maybe?

  • DiscoPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    de-encyclopedia — Camp shirts are short-sleeve, button-up (or button-down, depending on dialect) tops that are unique almost exclusively in the design of the collar. The collar is designed chiefly to lay flat, rather than something like a polo collar, which usually sticks up a bit regardless of whether or not the wearer has “popped” it.

    dubois-depressed — I knew a regular button-up wouldn’t work as a replacement.

    de-rhetoric [Trivial: Success] — A regular button-up works fine as a replacement. Nobody’s going to notice the type of collar on your shirt. If you really are that desperate for the camp collar, you can just get a long-sleeve camp collar shirt. They make those.

    dubois-depressed — I’m not a high-enough-net-worth individual to afford them.

    de-volition — And the Amazon Basics catalog is out of the question ever since you started boycotting them…

    de-savoir-faire [Hard: Success] — Chinese fast fashion. Temu and Shein, places like that. Not AliExpress, though. They make shit. In fact, you’re wearing a shirt dropshipped from Temu right now. You paid $34.99 on one of the discount websites to get clothes you could have bought for a third of that direct from the source.

    dubois-depressed — But what if I get…ripped off?

    de-savoir-faire — Don’t buy anything unless it has a good amount of reviews and a positive score. That’s all. You’ll be in a buyer beware market, but it’s not that hard to figure it out. Start small, build your wardrobe slowly. You can get some pretty good shirts from those websites for about ten dollars a piece.

    de-electrochemistry — Time to get some disco-ass clothes, baby!

  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    Before reading the other informed comments, this was the duality in my mind:

    Camp as in camping and outdoors stuff

    Or

    Camp as in like John Waters stuff

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m looking for a online store that that has affordable long-sleeve equivalents of what Old Navy calls camp shirts. Suggestions?

    Are you asking about shirts with a similar print (florals and other fun stuff) or similar shirt (boxy body, camp collar, materials [linen and linen blends])?

    I feel like you might be able to find linen shirts with long sleeves (often with a point collar or band collar), but the camp shirt with the camp collar like that (similar to an aloha shirt) is going to be really uncommon in long sleeve

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      really uncommon in long sleeve

      About once every couple years - I get a hankering for a colorful long-sleeved shirts. But then I google and google and google and google and I learn that only odd-ball clothing firms sell a few versions and they cost a king’s ransom.

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      I’ll edit my post.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        If you edit your post, maybe include a budget for the shirt you’re looking for. It really helps to know how much someone wants to spend when making a recommendation.

        I used to be big on colorful print shirts (often floral or paisley), but just I’m in a different era for my clothes now.

        It might be outside of your budget, but I had a few from Ben Sherman, Fred Perry, and JCrew that were quite nice. Fun prints tend to cost more, unfortunately. You might be able to snag something on sale or used (from Grailed or Depop or whatever) for a better price.

        DiscoPosting had quite a lot of good advice. One thing I’ll add is that when you’re buying long sleeves from Asian brands, double check the sleeve lengths (especially if you have long arms) as they can be a bit shorter than one might expect.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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          5 months ago

          double check the sleeve lengths

          Thanks. A long-sleeved shirt that’s too short always looks silly and that’s exactly the sort of mistake I’d make. “My shirt is here!” And then soon “Oh, fuck!..”

          It really helps to know how much someone wants to spend when making a recommendation.

          I’ll edit it again.

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            JCrew has a handful of long sleeve floral prints on sale. Tag price is ~$90 and it was showing 40% plus and additional %15 off. Granted, they’re more of a smaller floral print, which might not be exactly what you’re looking for.

            For the more expensive stuff, I would make a wishlist to keep an eye on the things you like and wait for a sale. Patience is a big thing for buying nice clothes on a budget.

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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              5 months ago

              Patience is a big thing for buying nice clothes on a budget.

              I can afford to spend more. But I hate buying something and having it rarely (or never) leave my closet. I might buy an Old Navy (or similar) short sleeved shirt just to be certain I want a long-sleeve.