Being the best dressed in your social circle comes at a cost. Your friends may dig your street style, but what they don’t know is your chic character isn’t at odds with what’s in your wallet. JackThreads has gone a long way towards solving that problem. Set to launch some big brands in the next few weeks, the online shopping community offers up apparel from some of the freshest urban brands around. Once you join, you’ll have access to items from Creative Recreation, Mishka, and Beautiful Decay, amongst others at sample sale prices. There’s more goodness and glamour where that came from. JackThreads will soon be offering more pleasantly priced goods from the likes of 3sixteen, Clae Footwear, and GRN Apple Tree amongst the already plentiful array of prominent, low price streetwear. Sign up now and keep more cash in your flow.

Streetwear as we know it today is a different beast than the clothes worn by metro kids a decade ago; it has infiltrated suburbia, established itself online and appeals to a much wider audience than before. If you have any doubts to how serious the industry is, just take a look at the collaborations between streetwear companies and mainstream ones like Burton, Nike and Mountain Dew — their target market is generally more savvy and more gainfully employed; you’d have to pay $60 for a t-shirt or $200 for a pair of Japanese denim. One company that has positioned itself in the upper tier is 3sixteen. Founded in 2003, the company targets “an older, more mature audience that appreciated a well made product.” To that end, the company has recently launched their web store housing exclusive items, the first of which is a pair of fitted caps from their Suit Pack. The caps’ design and manufacturer was done all in house, overseen by 3sixteen and they are made of worsted wool, a material most commonly found in suits. They are one of the first to make a stitchless brimmed cap, with the material wrapping around the bill uninterrupted. I think whether or not modern streetwear is your thing, its presence certainly can’t be ignored and 3sixteen is one of those companies to keep on eye one.

Growing up on the Eastside meant having to make the pilgrimage to traffic congested and parking-limited L.A. if you wanted a piece of the street fashion scene. Brands such as Stussy, Union, and Undefeated all opened their West Coast houses in basically the same main fashion arteries. Sensing a demand for a shop that could serve the needs of those in the San Gabriel Valley, Arnold Espiritu and Jay Bautista teamed up and opened GREYONE in April 2002. Since then, that original location has been renamed to Blitz and the flagship GREYONE store now sits on Holly Street, in the heart of Old Town Pasadena. The clean and nondescript storefront sits on a quiet street just one block away from the hustle of bustle of the city’s main thoroughfare, Colorado Blvd. The inside of the store is expansive and very industrial. The extensive use of concrete works surprisingly well, and is not cold in the least. Similarly, the staff is friendly, helpful and respectful which are things lacking in many of the aforementioned stores. Shirts, hoodies, and jackets are hung on a simple rack, with just a few samples of each design. There is an equally large assortment for the ladies on the opposing wall as well as bottoms on a center shin-high island. The shoe selection is impeccable with each model carefully featured in it’s own concrete box, with individual spotlights in each cell. GREYONE carries the usual fanfare of expected brands (Nike, Adidas, Vans, Puma, Stussy) but also impressed me with names such as: Greedy Genius, Creative Rec, Crooks & Castles, The Hundreds, False, SSUR, PRPS Denim, Acne Denim, Upper Playground, Ten Deep, Poets & Theives, Red Clay, and 3Sixteen. Parking is easy with city lots in all directions. I truly believe GREYONE represents the mecca for forward thinking street fashion boutiques east of Los Angeles.