Uniqlo may be the end-all be-all of inexpensive, Japanese-born basics, but you really shouldn't overlook Muji. A lot of people don't even realize that Muji makes clothing, focusing on their streamlined trinkets and household gear instead. It's sort of like IKEA if you really just need a couple things and don't want to devote an entire day to walking through an enormous warehouse with flat-packed furniture. Anyway, Muji S/S 15 kinda goes. There really comes a point around May where it's seriously just too fucking hot to even care about what clothes you're wearing, which is why flexing in the summer is as difficult as, say, solving an extremely complicated physics theorem. Not even the brightest minds have figured out what a black hole looks actually looks like. Similarly, they have not established a solution to summer flexing. Fortunately, Muji isn't really about that life. It's about comfort and simplicity, which it has in spades here. Denim shirts, breton striped sweaters, hoodies, lightweight macs and everything else you'd need for a basic wardrobe, or just something you need for a season before recycling, is accounted for. Muji's gotchu.
