Where do you buy flannel shirts?

[gottaB]

I recently got a flannel shirt on clearance from Lands End. It's probably goint to replace my green flannel shirt from L.L. Bean as my favorite.

One shirt I got from Eddie Bauer I enjoyed. It's holding up okay, and another one has been okay and might hold up, but overall I can't say their shirts are great because some of them just aren't.

I've never tried J Crew for flannel, but one of the oxfords I got from them I've worn like 500 times. Maybe it's a little frayed the last few years, but it was like a 10 year shirt, so that's pretty a good value.

Sometimes I go through bargain bins or outlet malls because I'm super cheap, and it can be worth it when you like find a five dollar shirt and it turns out you wear it hundred times--but there's like a hidden cost in picking something because it's on sale, but not really liking it and you end up giving it to Goodwill or whatever, and you have to like average that out or account for it somehow. So you get the one shirt in the "fashion" hues you never wear outside the house, and the other shirt you wear to death, and taken together you can calculate how much it costs you to put on a shirt.

Ah, but the warm fuzzy feeling of a good flannel shirt--hardly intangible, but you have to decide for yourself how much you want to pay for that. Well, actually, I think a lot of people are impulsive or unconcerned about the shirts they wear, but for the cheapskate epicurean such as yours truly, it's one of life's sweeter dilemmas.

So where else can I find a decent flannel shirt? It has to come in tall sizes (my arms are really long), and it should be durable, soft to the touch, have a nice drape, not be in ridiculous colors, and not be overpriced--I'd pay a premium for quality, and things that please me, but not for cutesy logos.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Eddie Bauer outlet

If there's one close by, I suggest going there.

I got a decent flannel shirt at Mervyn's once, as well.

[Rainbowreflect]

2. I have had nothing but great luck with Lands End's clothes & shoes.

Check out their on line clearance stuff for some great bargains.

[Bake]

3. Uh, I think WalMart has 'em pretty cheap ...

:-)

Bake

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Boycott Wal-mart

[Algorem]

5. Goodwill and Salvation Army.Lots of old hippie's are croaking off and

their world-class collections of flannel shirts end up there.

[Snow]

6. Hey!! Hands of my flannel shirt collection, dang it! I'm not quite

croaked yet. Bet yer after my birks, too!

[Algorem]

11. Orphan bongs? What happens to the poor little orphan bongs?

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Well what do you want? They're not made in the good ol' US of A no more...

[gottaB]

14. Aren't Pendletons still made in the USA?

But they have doofy pockets lately. I hate doofy pockets with buttons or snaps and logos really bug me. If I found a good plain flannel shirt from them I'd be tempted, because other shirts I've had from them have worn well.

[VOX]

8. For tall sizes and quality, Land's End and L.L.Bean are tough to beat...

The problem is that they're rolling out their spring lines now. Check their online sales or give 'em a call.

Note -- I know about tall sizes -- I'm 6' 5" and have a 36" sleeve. I was shopping from catalogs before it was cool!

[sarahbellum]

9. thrift store!

[gottaB]

16. Are you the Sarah Bellum

of Prairie Home Companion fame?

I know Keillor's not joking about Minnesotans being cheap, because I was born there.

Anyhow, glad to meet you :hi:

[sarahbellum]

22. never heard of her!

and as a native minnesotan, i'm ashamed to have never read any garrison keillor.

nice to meet you.

[LynneSin]

10. I've had my LL Bean forever

and that one was stolen from an ex-boyfriend

[sam sarrha]

12. Go to Good Will, Savers, Salvation Army.. Thrift Stores.. the good ones a

stand out and are obvious.. some are really new, i got a Bauer never worn.. for $4, and some flannel shirts they were seriously thick i ware for lite jackets. if the tag is the right color you get it for half price. I also got a Primo lined quilted leather jacket just broken in for $8 ..right color tag!! they are already worn soft and washed and dried so they are not going to shrink anymore.

your money is going to an organization that provides jobs, job training and assistance to families and drug rehab... not to Wallmart CEO's. I but 95% of my clothes at Good Will.

I think a lot of the really good stuff are things ex girlfriends give away when they find their boyfriends cheating on them...


:nopity:

[ohiosmith]

13. I collect dryer lint and knit my own.

[chaska]

15. Bought my last batch at Sears....

They're great shirts. Bought about ten of 'em at the end of winter for about $5 each. That was 4-5 years ago. They're still going strong.

[SOteric]

17. At a drug store in a logging town. They cost me $5.99 a piece.

New.

[geniph]

20. Hanging out in Forks now, are you?

LOL!

[SOteric]

21. Every weekend. I have a job out there.

:hi:

[geniph]

23. Holy crap! As a chef? or doing something else?

the mind boggles. There's no way there could be an actual chef in Forks.

[SOteric]

25. No, not as a chef

I get paid to write, to teach writing and in this case to capture the oral history of 3 Native American tribes in written format for the FBIA. Of of them is the Quillayute.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

18. Sears

[SendTheGOPPacking]

19. JCPenneys

[corporatewhore]

24. Thrift Store

[DancingBear]

26. Sam's Department Store in Keene, NH

If you're ever in the area - great selection of ALL things cold and winter-like.

Got me through primary season... :)

EMS (Eastern Mountain Sports) is also good.