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Still, Corridor’s clothes often transcend the trap of slightly tweaked basics. These days, Snyder works almost exclusively with international textile suppliers in places like India, Peru, Italy, and Portugal. Snyder, a passionate rug collector, considers his specialities to be textile work and color. The day of our lunch, Snyder is wearing a then-unreleased “overshot western” shirt in a lime green and a checkered pattern that looks rendered in 8-bit.
“Green means go,” Snyder says when I ask how he landed on this particular shade. “This shirt’s really a day-to-night thing. You can wear it out. If you go more olive, you can’t wear this out.”
Why?
“Olive’s not sexy.”
He credits his brand’s recent surge to men coming out of the pandemic with the desire to be more expressive. Not only did guys discover more about themselves—and, consequently, their style—while locked down, they came out with a peacock’s mentality. “You were stuck inside. Now, you can be out, you can look at people, they can look at you, you can emit something. You don’t have to talk to them,” Snyder says. “But at least you can feel like this.”
Seth, a 29-year-old mechanical engineer in Long Island, embodies this emergent middle man, and he buys as much from Corridor as he can. He wears the brand’s selvedge denim practically every day. Much of the rest of his closet—hats, jackets, shorts, socks, and about 20 shirts—comes from Corridor, too. Seth’s journey to the brand is representative of the generation of guys who have outgrown the mall shops and are now driving the success of labels like Corridor.
Seth first got into clothes, as so many guys his age did, through J.Crew. “I shopped at J.Crew almost exclusively throughout college,” he says. But a few years after he graduated, he decided he needed something more interesting. Corridor, which was in its infancy as the fashion brand for non-fashion guys, was the fix. “I jumped ship,” Seth says. “It felt like a simple progression from J.Crew, where there were a lot of fairly simple, traditional items, especially the button ups, but taken up multiple levels in creativity and quality.”
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