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 love the look of the packaging – it’s clean and masculine. They did a good job of styling the subscription to make it appealing to men.
Though the packaging is understated, you still receive those little extra touches, like a cloth bag for your shoes (yes, that’s right, the men’s subscription also ventures beyond just shirts and pants).
Every box includes styling cards showing a couple looks for each item in the fix. There’s usually a dressed up (right) and more casual (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.
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. My stylist has done a good job of picking clothes that aren’t overly dressy and have a casual feel, yet I wouldn’t feel odd wearing them to a teacher’s conference or other events at which I don’t want to look like a derelict.
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.
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.
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!). Your stylist takes not of what you kept (and why) and what you didn’t, along with any addition feedback you provide, so your clothes selections become better “tailored” to you over time.
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 run the table and score you great clothes and a discount (without having to keep anything you don’t really want. 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 $258.62 (plus the applied $20 sunk cost) – about $52 per item (after the styling fee I already paid for).
Everything in my fix for January.
Toms Mateo Textured Chukka ($98): I like the idea of getting shoe options through the mail, and both Brandy and I liked the fun yet professorial look of this pair. Unfortunately, fit is tough to get right when trying a new brand of shoes (with fashion footwear even moreso than with sneakers). Perhaps women are more resigned to the concept of trading comfort for fashion, and shoes work as part of a Fix on the women’s side, but I need Zappo’s quantities of shoes to try to find a comfy pair by mail. The sizing was right with these, but they just weren’t comfortable for my feet – this is not to suggest that Tom’s might not be the ultimate in comfort for someone with a different type of foot.
Mavi Myles Relaxed Straight Fit Jeans ($98): These jeans are described as navy, but they are so dark that they look black to me both in pictures and in person (scroll up a couple photos and compare the pants to the blue shirt and grey shoes – they’re much closer to black). I loved the fit and look of these from the front, and the wash isn’t exaggerated.
The back was a different story. The styling is pretty classic and looks good, but the fit made by butt look really odd (I spared you the photo my wife snapped to mock me with).
It’s a shame about the fit, because the jeans themselves look quite nice, with gentle twists on tradition jean styling.
Flag & Anthem Funkston Double Cloth Shirt ($59.50): This is a very unique shirt – I think it has to be the first time I’ve ever seen sheer fabric incorporated into a man’s shirt (not counting athletic mesh or the International Male catalog)!
It’s not sheet through to your body, though – it just shows a hint of the checkered liner. Unless you are handling the fabric, you can’t tell that you are peering beneath the outer fabric; it just looks like the shirt has a very subtle checkered pattern or a patterned wash on the blue fabric. The fit was really good for me – the larger size gave lots of needed room around my trunk without extending the sleeves to a comical length.
Hawker Rye Mick Cotton Cashmere Crew Sweater ($58): This was my favorite item and my definite keeper from the Fix. The neutral gray color and slight chambray look makes this piece very versatile – plus it’s light enough for layering and wearing indoors. It seems to occupy space somewhere between sweater and sweatshirt, with hybrid bottom trim and cuffs that have a cardigan-style height. It is comfortable, and the proportions (sleeve length v. trunk height) were great for me.
Hawker Rye Authentic Flannel Long Sleeve Shirt ($58): This flannel has traditional styling, but the fabric is a bit softer than expected.
I like the heavy dose of gray in the pattern, as it mellowed the canary yellow and orange-red. The pattern stands out without the shirt as a whole becoming loud. I liked this shirt, but the slim fit didn’t give much ground around the waist when moving to larger sizes. The only shocking part of that is that was mildly surprised that “slim fit” meant slim fit.
I was really pleased with the styling in this Fix – in fact, they’ve all been really good so far! I had some not-the-perfect-fit-for-my-body-type issues, but that is to be expected, and you only buy what you love. My stylist has been good enough that I haven’t had any problem finding at least one piece to keep in each Fix, and the application of my styling fee, which I treat as a sunk cost, means that the one item is a great price (like my $38 cashmere sweater)!
What do you think of the new Stitch Fix Men?
Comments
I absolutely loved the shoes and as a matter of fact I loved every single item !!! I am glad I finally clicked on this subscription to check it out.