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It’s only a couple of seasons into 2025: Global Meltdown Edition, and we’ve already noticed a few recurring plot lines. The one we’re keeping an especially wary eye on right now pales in comparison to, like, the price of eggs, but presents a set of very real dilemmas nevertheless. We’re talking, of course, about the topsy-turvy state of office style, and how the heck you should be getting dressed for your RTO mandate, whether it involves schlepping in one day a week or five.
More specifically, we’re talking about the type of office-friendly clothing that won’t make you dread the AM commute, that may, in fact, provide all the incentive you need to hustle your ass out of bed in the morning. Even more specifically, we’re talking about the type of clothing that hails from one place and one place alone: Stockholm, the biggest city in the second-happiest country on earth.
Which means we’re really talking about menswear brands like NN.07, Another Aspect, and Sunflower, each of which is pumping out wardrobe hits at a clip that’d make Max Martin blush. No idea what to buy for your newly-hybrid work week? They’ve got no shortage of good suggestions.
You might know NN.07 as the brand behind Jeremy Allen White’s jacket of choice on The Bear, but if you stopped there you’re missing out. Its Colby 5910 button-down, for example—a kitten-soft Oxford shirt with a Goldilocks cut—is the kind of piece you’ll find yourself wearing on weekends as reliably as workdays.
Looking for pants to pair it with? Try the Aden 1923 chinos, a loose-but-not-sloppy riff on the Casual Friday staple rendered in an organic cotton-twill that’s just as comfortable as your favorite jeans—and a heckuva lot more put together.
Or check in with the team at Sunflower—your favorite menswear newsletter’s favorite menswear brand—whose relaxed tropical wool trousers boast all the hallmarks of their vintage source material, sans the musty smell. (If your office skews casual, the Twist Jeans look especially killer in brown, and will positively crush with leather slip-ons and a lightweight sweater.)
At first glance, Sunflower’s semi-sheer shirts and loose jeans might remind you of more established Scandinavian labels like Acne or Our Legacy, but where those brands lean hard into the latter half of the “Scandinavian cool” premise, Sunflower tones it down a notch—to an extent. Its house-speciality Stable shirt, for instance, comes in the type of cotton poplin that wouldn’t raise an eyebrow anywhere but the snootiest law firm, but is also available in barely-there linen and a sheer seersucker blend.
Then there’s Another Aspect, a low-key Copenhagen label that’ll make you reconsider basically everything already in your closet. Its pants fit better, its knits sit better, and its shirts look like they waltzed out of a 1995 paparazzi spread. If you decided to grab, say, the Another Shirt 1.0 and the Another Jeans 3.0, you’d unlock a minimum of three new outfits instantaneously. (That number grows to at least seven if you get creative.)
Here’s the best part about all three brands, though: they demand nothing from you or your wardrobe. You can add a single piece from whichever of ‘em without worrying about how it’ll get along with the office-vetted clothing already at your disposal, or you can spring for a head-to-toe overhaul without giving your coworkers whiplash.
Silver linings can be hard to find as the WFH-era becomes a memory, but scoring a grip of new clothes you’ll love wearing in the office—and maybe even more outside of it—is a major W in our books, no matter where 2025 heads next.