I had a fit of anger this morning; I got a new dress shirt for work looked great, feeling good, headed to work and put on my jacket, and the shirt tears right across the chest…
I’m not very tall only 5’ 7" but my shoulders are freakishly wide. I’m tearing all the backs, chests, and arms of my shirts if I guy them to fit my waste.
I need dress shirts for work, but even when I buy athletic cut shirts they are either to tight in the chest and shoulders, and fit the waste, or they are super baggy in the waste and fit in the shoulders.
Does any one have a place where they can get nice business shirts? I don’t even care if they are expensive any more.
Just buy custom shirts. Find a J Hilburn rep (their website provides help finding one), or go to a similar company. Get your measurements done, and buy a few shirts. They run like 150 bucks a shirt, maybe like 100 for something really basic, but they’re great quality and will fit. They have guarantees on their fit, and will save your measurements if you come back for more. And you can always re-measure if you get bigger.
[quote]Smack1978 wrote:
I had a fit of anger this morning; I got a new dress shirt for work looked great, feeling good, headed to work and put on my jacket, and the shirt tears right across the chest…
I’m not very tall only 5’ 7" but my shoulders are freakishly wide. I’m tearing all the backs, chests, and arms of my shirts if I guy them to fit my waste.
I need dress shirts for work, but even when I buy athletic cut shirts they are either to tight in the chest and shoulders, and fit the waste, or they are super baggy in the waste and fit in the shoulders.
Does any one have a place where they can get nice business shirts? I don’t even care if they are expensive any more.
HELP!
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Do you have any trouble finding well fitting jeans because if you don’t, you probably are skipping to many leg days.
[quote]Smack1978 wrote:
I had a fit of anger this morning; …and the shirt tears right across the chest…
my shoulders are freakishly wide… I’m tearing all the backs, chests, and arms of my shirts if I guy them to fit my waste.
HELP!
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Who don’t any of you guys with this problem ever look like this?
[quote]Smack1978 wrote:
I had a fit of anger this morning; …and the shirt tears right across the chest…
my shoulders are freakishly wide… I’m tearing all the backs, chests, and arms of my shirts if I guy them to fit my waste.
HELP!
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Who don’t any of you guys with this problem ever look like this?[/quote]
if that is the case, i’d be more concerned with the fact that the dude is wearing jorts… you’ll never get laid in jorts unless white-trash is your thing
[quote]Smack1978 wrote:
I had a fit of anger this morning; …and the shirt tears right across the chest…
my shoulders are freakishly wide… I’m tearing all the backs, chests, and arms of my shirts if I guy them to fit my waste.
HELP!
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Who don’t any of you guys with this problem ever look like this?[/quote]
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He is BACK.
What up man. I was going to text you this week to check up on you.
[quote]Smack1978 wrote:
I had a fit of anger this morning; …and the shirt tears right across the chest…
my shoulders are freakishly wide… I’m tearing all the backs, chests, and arms of my shirts if I guy them to fit my waste.
HELP!
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Who don’t any of you guys with this problem ever look like this?[/quote]
Glad to have you back.
Yea, his premise was… dubious. I have a hard time believing he tore a shirt across the chest… that’s weird. When shirts are tight on me, like at the shoulders and stuff, the back is where they really stretch. If anything, you’d pop a button waaaaaaay before you tear the front of a dress shirt.
I ignored all that in favor of posting about a company that I actually use. Custom shirts are easily the best way to go if you have enough disposable income and you don’t fluctuate in size too dramatically.
I’m going to second custom shirts, of course I own a company that makes custom shirts so that’s just a little biased on my part but they really are the best way to go.
custom-clothing is my company, we’d be happy to ship product to the US for you if you had a friend do the measuring (not hard). Shirts start at $95, $115 for linen or wrinkle free cotton.
astor and black is a company in the US, they might have a rep in your area.
Indochino is online, they’re not a bad product.
Cotton works is good but you get what you pay for there so if you think you’re getting an awesome shirt for $30 you’re sadly mistaken.
$3-$6 gets you darts to bring the stomach and waist in. So that assumes you can get a shirt that fits your collar, shoulders, and sleeves and that darting is an option, if it’s too much fabric then darting won’t do it.
I’ve had to spend more than $40 getting shirts altered in the past to try and fit, I may be a bit fussy about fit but I think it’s worth it. So now I skip that and just do custom, the pricing isn’t nearly as painful as people expect it to be and there’s nothing like a garment that was made professionally just for you.
Plus of course the option of any cuff, any collar etc that you want is pretty cool because it allows you to tailor your look (yeah i went there) and make it as unique and/or flattering as you like.
