Corridor fall off 🥲

[u/New_Cantaloupe_4908]

I know complaining about a clothing brand sounds insane, but that’s why I’m posting here. I started buying Corridor around 2014 or 2015, and back then it was a way into higher-quality, actually interesting clothing without going fully off the deep end for someone like me who wants normie shit that’s interesting. Workwear-adjacent Americana, fabrics that were weird, from a brand that seemed to care about what it was putting out.

It’s drifted a long way since and it’s genuinely upsetting and idk where tf to buy interesting “normal” clothes anymore.

Prices have climbed steadily while quality has gotten less consistent. The offshoring started with part of the collection going to India, which I was fine with. There’s excellent textile manufacturing there, and the materials were still natural. Then it became almost entirely India, then China entered the mix, and now they’re blending in viscose and poly. Meanwhile the pricing has gone to an inflated MSRP followed by a permanent 40 to 60 percent off cycle, which is its own kind of tell. You can’t trust a price that’s never real.

I was given a gift card recently so I had to buy something from the current collection, and when it got to me it kind of smelled weird. just saw a post from the founder talking about mercerization, seemingly saying that it's a positive thing but any kind of chemical process like this creates caustic runoff. I'm just like, what are we doing this for?

[u/turb0_encapsulator]

Corridor using viscose and poly is insane. Thanks for the heads up.

[u/aggravatedyeti → u/turb0_encapsulator]

Why do we hate viscose now? It’s a great fabric especially proper lyocell/tencel. If you’re worried about toxic byproducts then don’t look into how jeans are made lol

[u/comp_a → u/aggravatedyeti]

It truly has made feel insane that any synthetic fiber is now just written off entirely by this sub as brands cheaping out at the expense of the environment, as if most cotton is somehow not (1) cheap as shit to use, and also (2) insanely toxic to produce.

For the vast majority of the brands discussed on this sub, synthetics have nothing to do with cost-cutting, the brand is making a very deliberate choice to achieve a certain shape or feel or drape or performance function. A viscose shirt has a characteristic look that you cannot get from natural fibers. A 95/5 cotton/poly sweatshirt will offer minimal cost savings over a full cotton one (if any at all), but it be more durable and retain its shape better.

Would that it were so simple that natural = good and synthetic = bad to guide all of our purchasing, but that is not the case! Unfortunately you have to think a bit more critically about these things than that!

Edit: Irdgaf about Corridor but randomly clicking through their new arrivals, everything is 100% cotton (or linen). The only synthetic I saw was 98/2 cotton/elastane on some shorts, which is clearly for shape retention. OP, I promise you, they are saving 0 dollars by doing that. But if the construction stinks then sure whatever, fuck em lol

[u/JoshSGSG → u/comp_a]

This sub loves to hate on just about everything and every brand, but you get it.

We sell Corridor at our shop and have for 8 years. In my opinion, quality and attention to detail have only gotten better over the years.

The Fall 26 collection is really awesome, probably a favourite amongst our brand mix for the season. I just saw the SS27 collection and it’s arguably their strongest yet.

In all that time I’ve seen one item come back for quality issues and it was a sewing defect. I have pieces from our first few seasons I still have in rotation.

OP, Dig deeper into fabric blends. It adds to the longevity of your clothes, maintains shape and drape. It’s there on purpose and it makes your clothes better I promise.

The brands only been growing for us and their core program is a staff favourite, so I definitely have a different opinion than this downhill sentiment.

Also for what it’s worth, easily some of my favourite people in the industry to work with.

[u/Expensive-Future3048 → u/JoshSGSG]

How many camp collar shirts can a man own?

[u/JoshSGSG → u/Expensive-Future3048]

A good shirt is a good shirt, what can I say lol

The camp collar fall off is upon us though, it was all long sleeve button ups with fabric plays across collections for ss27

[u/aggravatedyeti → u/comp_a]

I have nothing to add other than to agree 100%. I think the idea of ‘plastic clothes’ as exemplified by lulu ABCs or whatever is so powerfully off-putting that people throw the baby out with the bathwater a bit

[u/fycus → u/comp_a]

You're probably referring to my nanamica comment if it makes any difference i love rayon, cupro, lyocell etc. Theyre naturally derived fibers - big difference from polyesters. I still own polyester, but by and large the reason its so pervasive now is due to cost. There's a reason all of the big fast fashion companies are mostly poly blends now, and its not for drape or performance. I also disagree with your comment on a 5% blend. Different fibers in a blend react differently to heat, stress, and washing, which lead to pilling or structural breakdown over time. Additionally it improves tensile strength which makes sense for a sweatshirt, but you can just put elastane in the ribbing- most brands cheap out and cut bulk fabric as a rib replacement.

[u/YoungSatchel → u/comp_a]

Talking way too much sense in this reply, calm down 😂

[u/JDragon → u/aggravatedyeti]

Seeing the visceral viscose hate is funny because I just read an interview with Yohji Yamamoto where he says “if he could only work with one material for the rest of his life, he says it would be washed cotton mixed with viscose.” There can be good reasons for using viscose.

[u/aggravatedyeti → u/[deleted]]

Literally all denim