Stitch Fix Men November 2016 Review

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Stitch Fix Men is a personal styling service customized to your fit, lifestyle & spending preferences. Just like Stitch Fix for women, your stylist will send you 5 pieces based on your profile for you to try on at home. You only keep what you love, and you never have to set foot in a mall!

There are no coupons for Stitch Fix, but if you love everything in your fix, you save 25% when you keep the whole fix (read below for details)!

I loved the look of the packaging – it’s clean and masculine. They did a good job of restyling the subscription to make it appealing to men.

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Every box includes a set of styling cards with suggestions on how to wear the particular items. There’s usually a dressed up (right) and dressed down (left) version for each piece of clothing. The cards are not currently accessible in your Stitch Fix profile, but you can request a PDF via email.

My last set of clothes wasn’t quite my style. Apart from Hello Subscription stuff, I’m primarily a stay-at-home dad, so I wanted items more tailored to the playroom than the boardroom. I think this month’s selections are closer to the mark.

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Everything arrives neatly stacked in brown paper – I think it’s even a bit sharper looking than the tissue used in the women’s subscription.

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Here’s how Stitch Fix Men works: First, you fill out your style profile. This includes style, budget, and what you’re looking for – you can get as detailed as you want with the notes to your stylist. Your stylist is very responsive to your requests and will work hard to find pieces that fit your declared style, so the more info you provide, the better your selections will be.

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The box comes with a smart envelope with all the details on the clothes, plus a prepaid return envelope.

You get instructions, a style guide, and the price sheet. The instructions couldn’t be simpler: try on the stuff, let Stitch Fix know what you thought, and return the pieces you don’t want in the prepaid mailer (free shipping!).

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If you keep everything you get a 25% discount. This is why it is so important to be detailed and accurate in your profile, as it increases the chances that your stylist will hit a homerun. You will check-out and get charged through your Stitch Fix Men account. You’ll be charged a $20 styling fee and shipped five items to try on at home. If you keep anything your styling fee will be applied to your order, but if you don’t, you will pay the $20 fee. If I kept everything in the box, this fix would be $230.12 (plus the applied $20 sunk cost) – about $46 per item (after the styling fee I already paid for).

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Everything in my fix for November.

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Stance 3-Pack Socks ($30): These are nice looking socks. The blue stripe runs all the way around the toe, and the rise is ultra-low, making them good for loafers and other low shoes. I’m personally not a fan of low socks, though, and I have issues with three for $30 – I wouldn’t consider paying that normally, but I feel compelled since I like the other items and my $83 discount goes away if I don’t keep them.

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Hawker Rye Essential Wash Long Sleeve Shirt ($58): This slim fit window pane shirt has pleated cuffs that unbutton for rolling. The color is a nice cranberry (burgundy).

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The collar is button down and shorter than typical. The inside of the collar has a blue stripe as an accent.

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The most peculiar accent is the vertical double band tag on the back of the yoke. These usually are single bands running horizontally. I like the styling – it’s slightly dressy and the color is very Holiday appropriate.

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Flag & Anthem Wilmington Pigment Wash Shirt ($69.50): This piece reminds me of the farm shirt flannel jackets my grandfather would wear. The fabric has a good thickness to it, and the wash makes it very soft and micro-pilled. The shirt features two breast pockets and pleated sleeves.

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The top collar button is a standard button, but all the rest are snaps that look like ivory or marble set in silver. Combined with the panel stitching along the front yoke, this detail gives the shirt a slightly Western feel. I definitely like the way the shirt blends the work shirt sensibility with some classy touches.

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Threads 4 Thought Confetti Pullover Hoodie ($48): This is the thinnest hoodie I’ve seen in a while – It’s really more suited to wearing as a shirt in its own right instead of layering, as it would feel like you were layering a tee shirt on top of another tee shirt. The shirt looks gray from a distance, but it has a chambray texture that is dotted with blue, red, and yellow specks that are quite pretty up close and in person.

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Threads 4 Thought Richter Quilted Shirt Jacket ($128): This mid-weight jacket is a nice piece for Fall weather above the Mason-Dixon, or Winter below it. The material feels like flannel and is patterned with a diamond quilt stitch.

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It has snap fasteners and a silky liner. It is remarkably thin for a quilted jacket, falling somewhere between a flannel shirt and a barn jacket.

I am really liking Stitch Fix Men so far – good selections that are well-made and fashionable. I thought this batch of clothes was better suited to my profile than the last, with a more everyday utility for my lifestyle (I’m more likely to meet with teachers than clients). I like having some nice clothes to wear on errands, but I don’t necessary want to put on a dress shirt for grocery shopping. I wasn’t happy about the inclusion of socks in the box, since this is an item I like to pay club store prices for, and I didn’t like my “buy all” discount tied to a $30 bundle of socks. The “buy all” discount is certainly nice, but even getting a single piece feels discounted because the sunk cost of the styling fee is credited toward it. The styling fee is a good bargain and well worth the price – I expect there will be at least one piece I like in each order, so I will recoup it as a credit on my buy, plus I really do not miss department store shopping!

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