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Ruins
Ruins is like the apartment of your coolest dude friend. Walking in, the store is more than just a clothing store: it's a lifestyle stop.
Sure, there are gorgeous clothes here, but there's plenty more, too, including shoes, ties, fragrance, books, and CDs, and just that...vibe. (There's even a makeshift hair place in the back, and a to-die-for backyard perfect for shows and shenanigans.)
But back to the clothes. The super-cute owners--musician Josh Reichmann and DJ Mikey Apples--have impeccable taste. Brands include the Pendleton offerings for Opening Ceremony, Loden Dager, and other New Yawk-style lines.
One of the stand-out brands is Assembly New York. The contemporary price-point of the label is reasonable, especially considering the skill of the cuts, and the quality of the fabrics. There's the shrunken tweed wool blazer ($425), linen-style jeans ($295), and a terribly chic black linen button-up with an attached dead-nonchalant scarf ($395). They even do accessories, including a sturdy leather tote ($675).
Another New Yorker is Patrick Ervell, who offers up work wear that works equally well in the streets, like the soft formal grey wool pants ($350) and an unstructured wool blazer ($825).
Finally, the store also carries local boys' line, Thomas--this stuff is for the more fashion-forward, Bowie-esque, andro-male, and is all wisp and drape and future rock star silhouettes ($300--$650).
Additional covetables include the niche scent line CB I Hate Perfume, H by Hudson and deadstock German shoes, and obscure hipster books (Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy).
And what do the coolest-dude-friend proprietors have to say about their new playground? "We wanted a certain kind of cool--a little bit mature, elegant and unique, but laidback," Recihmann says. "It's a personally curated store that carries upscale stuff, but is also for someone who appreciates beautiful things. It's not just more stuff."
Cool.
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A barber chair in a hipster clothing shop should not really result in confusion, dear. A second look, a giggle, admiration... but confusion?
Those prices are tantamount to a slap in the face!
The Tangiers
Why does every independant men's shop have to be so deterring with their prices?
and there is nothing makeshift about the beautiful salon space!
Ruins has vision- if you want cheap, disposable crap go to H&M! Or get a better job.
Speaking of going both ways, I would like to apologize on behalf of the other people named Greg for the narrow-minded words of the Greg who posted above here. We're not all such idiots, I promise.
PS: The hair cuts in the back are excellent. And again, why someone might think two businesses cannot share the same space is beyond me. Sometimes I wish comment systems were no longer de rigueur.
Hot new spirits...never bring you pleasure.
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Why does Toronto have to become Brooklyn without the history and crime?
These kinds of stores litter the Lower East Side and Williamsburg. If it is not clothing it is overpriced coffee or a wood and tile bar/butcher shop. Everyone needs a mustache, beard and a pot belly. This place sucks.
Status almost always comes at a ridiculous one.
No wool blazer is ACTUALLY worth many hundreds of dollars.
But the social/cultural/mirror-image masturbatory fantasy cache of said blazer is what people (read: people with lots of money, lots of debt, or lots of both) pay for.
For the snarky kid up there who made some cheapshot at people with, like, logic... really? Are you as dull as you read? My income does not determine my ability to see past a price point.
Finally, with a headline like that, you really did need a picture of the cute boys. Only reason I clicked.
Us girls have it a lot more easy, believe me!
you must be kidding, right?
we need a store called Uniqlo to come to canada, then we can all have affordable, fashionable clothes to wear in canada
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