Dress shirts
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Custom dress shirts
Standard shirt or custom made shirt ?
2006-10-08
For dress shirts, you’ll either buy them off the rack or have them made for you.
While the latter is the preferable method, it’s also usually the most expensive.
No shirt, unless it’s made-to-measure, is worth more than $150. If you’re going to spend more than that, have it made for your body.
Let us note, before going further, that the experience of having good shirts made for your body, with all of your preferences in mind – style, collar, cuff – is a wonderful, expensive indulgence.
If you decide to go down this path, make sure you work with a good tailor.
Some easy process make it simple and convenient to order custom shirt online. From London to Hong Kong fancy clothiers are using the Internet to take their custom-made shirts to the masses.
The idea: you punch in your measurements, pick your fabrics and details, and a few weeks later you've ot a shirt fit for yourself.
The process is not always simple but it is amusing to create your special shirt. Online tailoring is growing thanks to the attractive prices proposed in Europe and in Asia.
What is a custom dress shirt ?
2006-11-21
In the age of mass production, many fashion lovers refuse to give up on custom made shirts.
Even if it is the best solution for getting a perfect fit shirt, it is also an original way to be different from the others, thanks to the variety of collars, cuffs, fabrics proposed by shirtmakers.
A custom dress shirt, is not a shirt that have a few custom measurements, it must be fully customized to fit you in the best way.
You will find in public shop some pseudo custom shirts with custom sleeve lengh and neck sizes, but the body of a man is much more than these two measures. Considering these kind of shirts as custom-tailored is misleading to shirts buyers.
To get the best shirt that fit your body, you need to be measured.
You will find out that one of your arm is longer than the other. Or that your left shoulder is lower than the other.
Take your measures, is not only take your collar size or sleeve lengh, it is also taking more than twenty measurements on you, from your wrist size to your neck height. Then you will be sure that you will wear a dress shirt that will perfectly fit you.
When you make tailored your dress shirts you can asked for details, as personnalize you shirts with a monogram on it. Nearly every shirtmakers propose to embroidering your initials. American people put it on one of their cuffs. on the contrary, European people prefer something discreet just below the rib cage.
Custom dress shirt is a perfect solution for tall, short, big or athletic built men who can afford to look good in standard shirts.
Shirtmakers propose now large shirts combinations encompassing every color imaginable with different fabric swatches. You will not be bound to wear a traditionnal solid blue dress shirt.
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