Normal men's clothes

stefanovich

Was in town the other day, wanted to buy a couple of shirts. Everywhere I went it was the same garbage. Debenhams, BT, Chapps.. One shirt in BT was nice but it was 140 quid. That was it. The options were surfer dude, 12yo boy or colour-blind.. Where the heck do you buy decent men's clothes in Limerick?

Parchment

TK Maxx. My boyfriend has good luck there and he is a big fan of "normal" jeans and nothing too wacky.

vkid

Sextons on Thomas St are decent. Noels on Wickham St also. Have given up on the likes of chaps, river island etc

stefanovich

Parchment wrote: »

TK Maxx. My boyfriend has good luck there and he is a big fan of "normal" jeans and nothing too wacky.

Yeah I might give it another chance. I'm not a huge fan of the setup in TK Maxx. Don't like rummaging through racks and racks of clothes.

stefanovich

vkid wrote: »

Sextons on Thomas St are decent. Noels on Wickham St also. Have given up on the likes of chaps, river island etc

Will have a look!

Swiper the fox

vkid wrote: »

Sextons on Thomas St are decent. Noels on Wickham St also. Have given up on the likes of chaps, river island etc

If by chaps you mean Connollys then how do they differ from Noels, you can't really limp River Island in with Connollys when you make a generalisation like that. Sorry for being pedantic.
Op, quite a good sale in bt at the moment. You should be able to get some very nice shirts for a lot less than 140.
Tkmaxx can be hit and miss and like you I don't like the rummaging. I usually end up buying something I'll never wear as well because it seems like a bargain.
Zara might be worth a look . Mego in the crescent do nice selected homme stuff as well. That's my taste though. You'll probably need to shop around to find what you like. What kind of shirts were you looking for?

myshirt

Are you one of these jumper casually thrown over the shoulder types?

Irish_rat

Where do folks buy decent shirts in town? Some of the tops in Debenhams are a fairly awful fit.

Cookiemunster

Dunnes for jeans, Next for shirts. I can never understand whay anyone would pay the prices in places like Connollys or Noels.

Irish_rat

For Jeans I find quality pays, they last more longer, the material is excellent and you get a good fit. Levi's/Diesel/Jasper Conran/Jeff Banks are the ones I like.

Next do a few good jumpers/mock-shirts but don't expect long wear off them. Sextons have a few decent jumpers that may cost a bit but you get good wear out of.

AMB

stefanovich wrote: »

Was in town the other day, wanted to buy a couple of shirts. Everywhere I went it was the same garbage. Debenhams, BT, Chapps.. One shirt in BT was nice but it was 140 quid. That was it. The options were surfer dude, 12yo boy or colour-blind.. Where the heck do you buy decent men's clothes in Limerick?

You had to buy that one from BT. Or just measure it and buy later online.

Mc Love

Smart Casual - cant go wrong with BT for everything else I get American Eagle from people visiting states of order online, their clothes are great quality for the price!

vkid

Swiper the fox wrote: »

If by chaps you mean Connollys then how do they differ from Noels, you can't really limp River Island in with Connollys when you make a generalisation like that. Sorry for being pedantic.

I'd see Chapps as the section of that shop selling the Jack and Jones, Superdry, G-Star Raw etc. Easily lumped in with the likes of River Island imo. Its exactly where I'd put them style wise. Budget not so much.
Tony Conollys to me is for the older set in the other side of that shop. Never really saw them as the same thing and they seem to aim at the 50 plus age group.

Noels IMO offers something in the middle, same with Sextons but whatever you think yourself.Clothes are pretty personal, perceptions of shops are too.

Pumpkinseeds

Maybe you should just look online. The problem with most high street shops, both men and womens, is that they tend to have pretty much the exact same stuff, just at varying prices.

stefanovich

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Op, quite a good sale in bt at the moment. You should be able to get some very nice shirts for a lot less than 140.
Tkmaxx can be hit and miss and like you I don't like the rummaging. I usually end up buying something I'll never wear as well because it seems like a bargain.
Zara might be worth a look . Mego in the crescent do nice selected homme stuff as well. That's my taste though. You'll probably need to shop around to find what you like. What kind of shirts were you looking for?

Yeah was in BT again, nothing apart from that same shirt

Irish_rat wrote: »

Where do folks buy decent shirts in town? Some of the tops in Debenhams are a fairly awful fit.

Debenhams was full of utter ****e.

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Dunnes for jeans, Next for shirts. I can never understand whay anyone would pay the prices in places like Connollys or Noels.

Usually get jeans in BT, levis etc don't fit me well. Had some horrific jeans from Pennys when I was a kid put me off for life.

Irish_rat wrote: »

For Jeans I find quality pays, they last more longer, the material is excellent and you get a good fit. Levi's/Diesel/Jasper Conran/Jeff Banks are the ones I like.

Next do a few good jumpers/mock-shirts but don't expect long wear off them. Sextons have a few decent jumpers that may cost a bit but you get good wear out of.

Just make sure it's Italian Diesel and not the garbage Irish brand.

AMB wrote: »

You had to buy that one from BT. Or just measure it and buy later online.

Didn't get it. Price put me off because I've gotten much better for much less. Maybe I need to start spending more on shirts! Regardless, the stuff in BT was pretty naff.

vkid wrote: »

I'd see Chapps as the section of that shop selling the Jack and Jones, Superdry, G-Star Raw etc. Easily lumped in with the likes of River Island imo. Its exactly where I'd put them style wise. Budget not so much.
Tony Conollys to me is for the older set in the other side of that shop. Never really saw them as the same thing and they seem to aim at the 50 plus age group.

Noels IMO offers something in the middle, same with Sextons but whatever you think yourself.Clothes are pretty personal, perceptions of shops are too.

Chapps were also full of crap. One shirt looked half decent but it was gstar and felt like it was made of plastic.

stefanovich

Basically I want to buy a shirt that doesn't make me look like a 30 year old teenager or surf dude. I suppose it gets a lot worse around summer.

I want a normal respectable smart shirt. Seems online is the best bet. Never ordered clothes online before as I like to try them on but I suppose shirts would be fine.

Swiper the fox

Can you provide a link to the type of shirt that you liked from BT, you seem hard to please:pac:

Completely agree with a few other posts about jeans, you pay for quality and good fit as well as style. And just a heads up, there are absolutely loads of Diesel (Italian) jeans in all styles and sizes at half price in the BT sale, that's between 65 and 80 euros which really is a bargain, expensive as it may seem if you are used to buying inferior jeans.

stefanovich

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Can you provide a link to the type of shirt that you liked from BT, you seem hard to please:pac:

Completely agree with a few other posts about jeans, you pay for quality and good fit as well as style. And just a heads up, there are absolutely loads of Diesel (Italian) jeans in all styles and sizes at half price in the BT sale, that's between 65 and 80 euros which really is a bargain, expensive as it may seem if you are used to buying inferior jeans.

That really is a bargain. I'll have a look. Usually pay 130 or more for jeans.

Can't find the exact shirt on their website. It was Hugo Boss new collection. I swear I'm not being fussy. Really is was shocking how gawdy and naff the stuff was.

black & white

+ 1 for Sextons and if you wnat something a bit different from them, try Camiche 7 on Patrick St.

seachto7

Don't get those two tone formal shirts, with the different colour cuffs and collar to the body, or the double collar ones you see in Camiche. Hideous.

Irish_rat

seachto7 wrote: »

Don't get those two tone formal shirts, with the different colour cuffs and collar to the body, or the double collar ones you see in Camiche. Hideous.

Yep they're bloody awful, Penguin shirts get a lot of good reviews on the F&A forum, is there anywhere in town that stock them?

Swiper the fox

Irish_rat wrote: »

Yep they're bloody awful, Penguin shirts get a lot of good reviews on the F&A forum, is there anywhere in town that stock them?

Camden square in the crescent do some Penguin as do Noels and BT. You can't beat Hugo boss for a nice fitting shirt of any type but they're very expensive.

MarkR

Shaws in the crescent have some nice (I think) shirts for men.

bodonnell

Burtons can be ok but a lot of the shirts are 'fitted' so you my need to go up a size if beer gut is an issue

youngblood

cant believe its 2 pages in and no one has mentioned Penneys

Swiper the fox

This thread has shown once again how poorly Limerick is served by menswear aimed at the age group between 25 and 50 who actually would tend to be the biggest spenders. I cannot understand how the likes of Sextons, Leonards, O'Connells, Deignans, Noel Andrew's, etc can stay open when they don't really have much to offer the slightly younger crowd. The lads in Sexton's are sound but their clothes are quite dull, that Irish Diesel Brand seems their only attempt at dressing the younger crowd and frankly I don't like that stuff.
Limerick BT Menswear is the poor relation of Irish BTs around the country, Connolly's could be much,much better, why are they so stuck on Hilfiger and superdry when they are available in a few other places in Limerick. Is it the shop or the punters that have no imagination?

A couple of years ago I was saying that if I had the money I'd set up a Japanese restaurant in Limerick, I was right on that, now I'd love to set up a men's shop, something like Genius in Dublin. It's obvious that it's badly needed

Cartman78

Limerick has plenty of men's clothing options.....if you're a teenage wannabe scobe or a marginally obese middle aged man 😞

Buy most of my clothes and shoes either online or in TK Maxx...yes you need to spend a bit of time looking/rummaging but usually worth the effort imho

vkid

Swiper the fox wrote: »

This thread has shown once again how poorly Limerick is served by menswear aimed at the age group between 25 and 50 who actually would tend to be the biggest spenders. I cannot understand how the likes of Sextons, Leonards, O'Connells, Deignans, Noel Andrew's, etc can stay open when they don't really have much to offer the slightly younger crowd. The lads in Sexton's are sound but their clothes are quite dull, that Irish Diesel Brand seems their only attempt at dressing the younger crowd and frankly I don't like that stuff.
Limerick BT Menswear is the poor relation of Irish BTs around the country, Connolly's could be much,much better, why are they so stuck on Hilfiger and superdry when they are available in a few other places in Limerick. Is it the shop or the punters that have no imagination?

A couple of years ago I was saying that if I had the money I'd set up a Japanese restaurant in Limerick, I was right on that, now I'd love to set up a men's shop, something like Genius in Dublin. It's obvious that it's badly needed

Think you are being very negative there. Just one example is the men's section in BT galway is laughable. It's much smaller than the limerick one. And galway in general is ****e for men's clothes..

Parchment

seachto7 wrote: »

Don't get those two tone formal shirts, with the different colour cuffs and collar to the body, or the double collar ones you see in Camiche. Hideous.

Same - those are so tacky. I am a woman and would run a mile from a man wearing one. All my female friends feel the same.

Caovyn Lineah

I can't remember the last time I bought any clothes in Limerick, there really is nothing I would wear in any shop bar gstar jeans in chapps.

puntosporting

Internet !

Swiper the fox

vkid wrote: »

Think you are being very negative there. Just one example is the men's section in BT galway is laughable. It's much smaller than the limerick one. And galway in general is ****e for men's clothes..

Dunno, wasn't specifically thinking Galway but to be fair to you it's a similar size and we shouldn't be comparing Dublin or Cork to Limerick.
However I don't think BT Galway mens suffers for being smaller, seems to be just as well stocked in my experience, Anthony Ryans has a good menswear section with decent brands, there's a couple of nice shops facing you as you walk down middle street (is it Cross street?) and another nice shop that I found across the bridge (kind of department store). And i'm not that familiar with Galway, I still think that Limerick is brutal for mens clothes unless you're over 50

Mc Love

I know it's not Limerick but Patrick Bourkes in Ennis has a great selection of clothes and shoes and is probably the best place to get a suit in Munster

vkid

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Dunno, wasn't specifically thinking Galway but to be fair to you it's a similar size and we shouldn't be comparing Dublin or Cork to Limerick.
However I don't think BT Galway mens suffers for being smaller, seems to be just as well stocked in my experience, Anthony Ryans has a good menswear section with decent brands, there's a couple of nice shops facing you as you walk down middle street (is it Cross street?) and another nice shop that I found across the bridge (kind of department store). And i'm not that familiar with Galway, I still think that Limerick is brutal for mens clothes unless you're over 50

Oh don't get me wrong, Limerick is not great . But far away hills and all that... BT mens in Galway is about half the size of the Limerick one, if even that. That was just an example.

Cork isn't exactly mind blowing for mens clothes either.

The only place with a really good selection is Dublin and that is because it has the population.