There is no doubt that Uniqlo is hard to beat for basics.
Their merino polo shirts, lambswool sweaters, Heatech undershirts and packable puffa jackets are all worn by various members of the Singer tribe.
Why, oh why, have they changed their website to what is possibly the hardest site to shop on the web.
Over the last couple of weeks I've visited it a few times. The product search function sends you all over the place, product categories, such as mens knitwear, are hard to locate in sub menus and pictures of merchandise appear to be missing.
Probably someone in the marketing dept has decided that video content is more important that being able to get to what you want quickly.
It's no good having youngsters prancing around in multi-layered outfits unless you can buy stuff.
I looked at it yesterday and gave up. Thought it was me/my computer cracking up.
The UX/UI is awful, whoever signed it off needs a cold shower to wake up, as it currently is its unusable
I tried to use it today. All I wanted to look at were the chinos but I seemed to keep going around in circles. Eventually found them but gave up looking for anything else.
It is not very intuitive but just click search at bottom and then from screen Men > bottoms > chinos (so just four clicks). It is different but the navigation is quick if you follow its logic.
Last edited by An Unseen Scene (2024-09-04 07:53:21)
It’s not that it’s hard, it’s just people are used to a menu not being contained within the search functionality, so like many on here they give up or find out accidentally. A developer friend who is ex GDS says it fails a lot of Internet Standards for accessibility
There is a good lookbook page on there with Jason Jules wearing sort of Ivy clothing. He shows that budget clothing can look really good, as long as it fits of course.
Has anyone else noticed there is a Jason Jules lookalike on many men's clothing sites wearing their clothes? It might be a coincidence but the styling is consistent.
Is it Glen Campbell? He looks similar to JJ.
Does some work for QVC as well.
Is it Glen Campbell? He looks similar to JJ.
More than likely, GC's quite a stylish guy.
It might well be yes. He pops up a lot, I saw him recently at Seasalt which I was taken to after a google search. I wonder if there is a look a like for him.
Of course the name causes initial confusion too.
Last edited by An Unseen Scene (2024-09-16 07:34:14)
I visited Uniqlo in Kingston yesterday for the first time, Kingston being the closest to me, I had a good look around but only bought one of their lambswool cardigans, had to size down to an M, top button maybe a little high but we'll see , worth a punt at less than £40, if it works and washes ok I may go for another one (or two) in different colours, there were a couple of items there that really caught my eye, there was a grey herringbone'ish 2 button jacket, unlined, no visible darts, probably double vent, around £69,bargain, there were some excellent OCBD's in basic colours, good collar length,(unlike some of their other bd's), all the usual Ivy features, the cloth seemed very good, these were around £34, now I don't need another jacket or any OCBD's in base colours, but I was sorely tempted by the blue OCBD, if you want to get kitted out Ivy'ish style on a budget it really is the go to place,
Stax,
Really interesting about the ocbd. That's a great price.
When I've looked at their shirts before I found the fabric to be quite harsh.
Also, the collars were small.
Maybe time to revisit
I was saying to y Wife on the way home, ( before she glazed over ), that back in the day when I was working full time often I had gaps in my shirt rotation for work and the uniqlo shirts would have filled the gaps nicely at very reasonable prices, a few years back I bought 3-4 of their merino crews which were ideal for office wear,
Over on the Ivy League Group FB page there's a new posting from a guy who has just bought a Uniqlo OCBD, plenty of positive comments about the shirt from various contributors,
I visited Uniqlo Westfield Stratford today and was genuinely impressed with what was on offer. The grey herringbone sack jacket was pretty good, with a centre vent and no darts, three cuff buttons on the sleeve. The slim fit shirts had a reasonable 3 finger BD collar. There was also a few decent overcoats. My missus wasn't so impressed with the women's clothes and noted a lot more clothes are now made in China. She reckons, fashion wise, flat shoe loafers and blazers are now in vogue for women. The prices would suit students getting fitted out for clothes and I noticed quite a few young buyers in the shop. There were a few older geezers like me looking for bargains and like Stax I would probably have bought some of the shirts when I was working but I walked out empty handed.