- Check the fabric content of your custom dress shirts. Finer dress shirts are made of two-ply, which make the fabrics stronger, softer and wrinkle less.
- When looking at the seam along the side of the dress shirt see if it is smooth and doesn’t pucker. High-quality custom mens dress shirts have only one line of stitching visible on the side seam, while most commercial shirts have two visible rows of stitches.
- Examine shirt sleeve a couple of inches above the cuff for a gauntlet button that closes up the sleeve. A gauntlet button and a horizontally placed buttonhole also usually indicate good craftsmanship.
- In Custom striped shirts, check how stripes are aligned. They should match making a straight line.
- The collar of a great fitting custom shirt should be firm and crisp. It should not be limp and under no circumstances it should have any wrinkles or bubbles (puckering)
- For patterned fabrics the design should match where two pieces of fabric meet. For example where sleeves meet the shoulder.
- A well made custom shirt should have removable stays or built in stays for a crisper and firm look.
- Collars should be made from two pieces and hand turned.
- The buttons of a high quality custom shirt should be sewn with a cross locked stitch to ensure your buttons stay firmly attached.
Tip:
It takes up to 9 washings for a custom dress shirt to fully shrink. So with this in mind be sure the collar of a new shirt has an extra half inch in size or it’ll become too tight.
Tip:
It takes up to 9 washings for a custom dress shirt to fully shrink. For this reason, make sure the collar of a brand new shirt has a half inch extra room or it will become too tight.
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