Thrillist Chicago
Emailed on: Tuesday June 23, 2009Jack Threads
Americans have a seemingly limitless desire for more: channels on our televisions, patties on our burgers, even career options...for women! Patriotically fulfilling your own desire for more, Jack Threads.
An Ohio-based, invite-only shopping community that until recently confined itself to a tidy but restrictive "one day, one item" model, JT has expanded its scope, offering its members ridiculous daily deals (discounts start at 50% but often edge gloriously higher) on an eye-popping variety of top street/skate/surfwear lines, which you could normally afford if not for your affinity for other eye-popping lines. Today's drop (available starting at 11am) offers up loads of goodness from LA-based purveyors of modernized classy-casual standards Shades of Greige, like a double breast-pocketed teal/royal/olive hooded flannel, a lightweight cotton navy spring jacket rocking four snapped pockets across the front, and a solid small-collared button down with a matching skinny tie -- though when you're wearing a neck noose in your casual life nobody wins. Other lines they're rolling out in the future include kicks from Clae and Creative Recreation, slick skatewear from KR3W, vintage-y sports tees from Homage, and jackets/denim from GRN Apple Tree, because an apple a day keeps people from seeing your shingles.
In case you were nervously fretting your lack of membership, fear not: they're hooking Thrillist readers up with an exclusive opportunity for instant, invite/approval skipping access, providing the kind of reassuring certainty you used to enjoy knowing your stewardess application was going right to the top.
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