As usual, their commercials make their coats, clothes, and underwear look tempting but then I look at their prices and am shocked. I cannot imagine feeling that I’ve gotten my money’s worth when wearing a $25 pair of underwear.
If you have any experience with any of their products, I like to hear your thoughts.
Love thier underwear - catch them onsale + coupons - still pricey but worth it IMHO.
just bought 2 of thier grab jackets - one for me, one for simwife - great jackets.
My parents gave us some of their stuff last Christmas.
My husband got a nylon fishing shirt that was so bulky and stiff, he hated to wear it and the damn thing took up most of the washing machine. We got rid of it.
I got a long-sleeve tshirt and a flannel shirt to go over it. The tshirt is really nice. I love to wear it. Plenty long in the body and arms, nice silky cotton.
The flannel shirt is the same story as the fishing shirt. Thick, scratchy, stiff. Got rid of it. I might have felt differently if I had to do chores twice a day in the Minnesota winter, but as it is, I’m largely a decorative creature. You know, the kind their new aimed-at-women commercial makes it clear they are NOT RIGHT FOR (what a fucking awful commercial). So the flannel shirt went to Goodwill.
I have two pairs of pants.
One pair had a small hole occur in the change pocket after 6 or 7 years of use. The pair was replaced without charge, no questions asked.
Yeah, the Buck Naked underwear is very comfortable.
I also have three or four of their button-collar shirts.
Seeing the title I imagined there were such things as ‘Trading Clothes’ to be worn by modern merchants and brokers as a mediaeval / renaissance guild garb, to show what they were. There seem to have been a lot of select styles for professions in the old days.
In this case, a heavy whitish-yellow linen all-in-one flappy-limbed overall ( or coverall as some Americans call it ), with heavy ostentatious gilt buttons, and a triangular self-coloured Andy Pandy hat.
Most of my (limited) wardrobe is Duluth Trading and I would recommend them in a heartbeat.
I have several of these flannel shirts. My experience is completely diametric to that of Sattua’s. Their flannel is soft, warm, and comfy. I have long arms and a big belly and their shirts fit better than almost any I’ve ever had. I also wear their jeans exclusively, and have no issue with them except for one thing: they aren’t colorfast. I wash all my clothes by hand, and notice that when I wash my jeans the water takes on a slightly blue tint. Not a big deal, but if I washed all my clothes together, with the whites included, it would be.
As far as underwear goes I wear these daily. I love love LOVE them. They stay dry and don’t stink and are snug enough to act as proper underwear but not enough to be uncomfortable.
I also have a Duluth belt that’s lasted for a couple years—something that is rare for me. It’s softened up a bit but shown no signs of wear besides a few creases where I buckle it.
I love Duluth Trading clothes and will be purchasing some lighter-weight shirts later this spring. Probably some underwear as well.
Their commercials are misleading, however. They have very little influence on the claims of, “No Stink, No Sweat”.
Incidentally, I got an email offering 30% off of orders $100 or more, ‘3 days only’. The code is SLED30.
Too bad I don’t need anything.
Lots. Their catalogs are regular shopping lists for both the wife and I. “Firehose” stuff is just as tough as they claim. I do believe I’m getting a couple of new pairs of suspenders on Monday, in fact.
I wear several of their long tail, polo shirts at work. It’s reassuring that my butt crack doesn’t show when I lean over to work on pc’s or other stuff on the floor.
Wear their flannel shirts at home when I’m raking leaves or hanging Christmas lights. I often don’t need a jacket on a 50 degree day. The flannel shirt keeps me warm.
I had a pair of their firehose pants. They are very durable but stiff.
But yes, they did eventually tear after maybe 3 years. I sent them in and they refunded the full price.
At this very moment I’m wearing my Duluth Leather Driving mocs. Very comfortable and long-wearing.
I also have some “free swing” flannel shirts from them that I am very fond of.
I have a lot of DT stuff, the most recent and one of the best, is Shoreman’s Fleece Jacket. Generously sized and very thick fleece. I wear it frequently and I am thinking about buying another in a different color. Superior to my North Face fleece at a much lower price.
I have a bunch of their tee shirts, long and short sleeve, and find them very satisfactory.
I have one of those too. Great fleece jacket, and very warm.
A quick survey of the closet shows 2 belts, three jackets of various sorts, a vest, multiple t-shirts, 3 pairs of suspenders, 2 pairs of pants, a few knickknacks and a tool or two from DT. And that’s just me. I have no idea how much of their stuff the wife has.
You have to be careful about the true economics when it comes to clothes. Quality really matters even if you have to pay more upfront. A $25 pair of underwear that lasts 5+ years is still cheaper than an $8 pair that you have to replace much more often. I never cared about underwear that much personally but I do about shoes, pants, shirts and coats. I generally prefer LL Bean for those types of items but DT is in the same category. You buy quality items just once and they last anywhere from many years to a lifetime. If you buy their classic items correctly, you hardly ever need to buy new clothes and spend less money overall than a typical Wal-Mart shopper and look infinitely better.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
–Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms
I have some of their t-shirts I got as gifts. I have to say they are very nice shirts(bearing in mind that most of my shirts are target or wal-mart clearance rack scavenges, for a point of relativity)
I deliberately don’t want to know what they cost because I am sure whatever it was it is far beyond my personal limit for what any piece of clothing is worth.
Unfortunately, the relationship between cost and quality is a total crapshoot.
Take my two pairs of SmartWool socks. They didn’t come from Duluth, but Duluth sells both models. Both cost about $20 a pair.
Pair 1 is going strong in year 3.
Pair 2 wore holes in less than six months of use.
What I concluded from that little lesson is that there’s a hell of a lot more to “quality” in clothing than price or brand. Even the material labels don’t help–both pairs were wool/poly blends.
The truth is that, while you can increase your odds of quality with price, nothing’s a sure bet.
I’ve gotten quite a few of their Longtail T-shirts over the years, and the last couple years started buying some of the buckleless velcro belts.
I’ve been thinking about trying the Buck Naked boxer briefs but like OP have been a bit wary because of the price. $25 for a pair of underwear? I suppose if it lasts five times as long as the $5 pairs I buy, it’s worth it, but don’t know if that’s what will happen or not.