Custom Men's Dress Shirts - 5 Highly Helpful Tips Before Buying

Before buying your Custom Men's Dress Shirts therehow he can expect it to fit. This is obviously very
are a few things you should be aware of.subjective, but one thing for sure if you are not an
1. Don't fall for custom shirt makers that don't takeextremely picky clothing shopper, you will probably
at least 9 measurements.be satisfied with any fabric with a yarn count of 50 -
Some custom dress shirt makers (especially on the80 (for more info on this see our dress shirt fabric
internet) say that they have a magic formula andposting).
that all you need to give them is your height, weight,4. Custom men's dress shirts made in Asia can be
and a few other descriptions which don't measurebetter than in the West
the size of your body parts, this generally results in aToo many times have we heard that if its made in
poorer fit than if at least nine measurements wereChina, Thailand, Vietnam it must be of bad quality.
taken.This is far from true when it comes to custom dress
That said, it can still result in a good fitting shirt, but ifshirts. Just by looking at this statistically there are
all other things are equal it won't be better thanprobably 10 times as many tailors in Asia than in the
taking measurements (if for example the twoWest. That being said only a handful of these are
different methods were performed by the sametruly skillful, but there are still many to be found due
tailor).to the sheer number of them, it's just harder to find
2. Watch out with tailors that have too much pridethe right one. Nowadays, even high end brands get
For many, especially upscale tailors, they oftensome of their dress shirts made in China.
consider their work to be a form of art. This canSo don't fear Asia, just come with a recommendation
both be good and bad. However, at times customersin hand.
end up blindly listening to the advice of tailors since5. There are a lot more design options than you are
they believe that they know best. The advice ofshown. Be creative (if you want).
these 'tailors of pride' can turn confident customersCustom men's dress shirt makers some how lack the
that knew what they wanted when entering theability to show the many design options there
shop become uncertain and blindly follow the adviceactually are for dress shirts. That means that you
of the tailor.have to picture what the shirt will look like in your
3. The fabric of the custom dress shirt is not themind. Tailors rarely tell customers that they can
most important elementactually get other fabrics placed on different areas of
Although fabric is one of the most important thingsthe shirt. There are millions of possibilities with this,
of the dress shirt, design and fit are actually morebut its unfortunately just so hard to imagine.
crucial to a dress shirt you will be satisfied with.We believe that far too often has the art of tailoring
When most people buy a dress shirt their initialbecome focused on fit rather than design.
buying behavior is based on how the fabric looks and