# Where should I shop for men's clothes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-shop-for-mens-clothes/609060>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 10, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-shop-for-mens-clothes/609060 "2012-01-10T18:17:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-shop-for-mens-clothes/609060/1 "2012-01-10T18:17:05Z")

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I want to get a new wardrobe. For background, I’m 45 and living full time in the US for the first time in a few years. For most of this century, I’ve been living in places like Aceh Indonesia, Kabul and Baghdad, all of my clothes had to be able to to stand up to my housekeeper pretty much boiling them on laundry day. I’d like to get some casual to dressy clothes that are stylish, but age appropriate.

I’d like to freshen up my wardrobe, look like a reasonably stylish urban professional, without my friends thinking I’m going through some kind of mid-life crisis What I mean is I’m not so deluded that I think I’d look good in Abercrombie and Fitch clothes, but I don’t want to shop at J.C. Penney either. Most of my current work clothes come from Jos. A. Bank, but they’re all just kind of boring. So where do adults buy their clothes? I’m in Washington, DC if that helps.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-shop-for-mens-clothes/609060/2 "2012-01-10T18:30:17Z")

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Banana Republic is pretty good. Kind of an A & F look but more age appropriate and you don’t have to go into an Abercrombie store and get the stink eye from a bunch of Aryan Supermen in prestressed khakis.

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-shop-for-mens-clothes/609060/3 "2012-01-10T19:06:46Z")

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Thanks, I’ll check them out. I guess I thought they skewed younger, but I haven’t shopped there since they used to have those hand drawn catalogues.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-shop-for-mens-clothes/609060/4 "2012-01-10T19:11:32Z")

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Well, I’m 29, but 45 year old men who shop for their own clothes are pretty thin on the ground so I don’t see why you wouldn’t shop there.