Get the Basics
Discount staples for a fashionable wardrobe
1. Perfect-fit American Apparel shirts, for up to $10 less than you’d pay at one of the label’s glossy, sexed-up stores. Chocky’s, 2584 Yonge St., 416-483-8227.
2. Wool-blend coat with nifty leather detailing from Martoni, a North York manufacturer of well-tailored winter essentials—and supplier to a number of posh labels. (They also make made-to-measure cashmere coats for a dirt-cheap $750.) Martoni Fashion, 1194 Caledonia Rd., 416-504-0236.
3. Men’s selvage jeans—high-quality, durable stuff made on old-fashioned looms in Japan—typically run around $300. Jeans from Montreal-based Naked & Famous come raw and simple (no fake whiskers or ass jewellery) for a third of the price. Sydney’s, 795 Queen St. W., 416-603-3369.
4. Every chain fashion outlet sells two-ply cashmere sweaters these days. Stollerys, a local institution straight out of Edwardian times, has infinitely more luxurious four-ply classic versions from Nepal that are half the price of the Scottish equivalent. Stollerys, 1 Bloor St. W., 416-922-6173.
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