Favorites Series: Dress Shirts Edition - Topic of the day 9/25/23
What are your favorite dress shirts? Favorite brands at low medium and high price points? What do you look for in a dress shirt? What brands have been great for them and what brands have really let you down? (Note: the Favorites Series will be running ~weekly as a new way of the outdated "Best X for $X" threads on MFA.)
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Proper Cloth and similarly priced MTM brands are really nice. My main gripe is that spread collars are somehow popular for dress shirts and they almost universally look terrible. Also dress shirts w/o a tie I think just look bad.
The semi-spread poplin shirt in not-non-iron fabric seems to be an impossible ask if you're hoping to spend fewer than 100 dollaridoos. Larimars is one of the few places that offers a cheap option but I haven't partaken, because at the lady minute I decided to spend five times as much from stalwart Kamakura.
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Uniqlo because I only need one once a year
How's spier & McKay
absolutely hated my uniqlo dress shirt 😭 the fabric irritated my neck
solid for the price, as with everything else Spier sells
Yep they suck but if I just need a throw away shirt it’s better than the stuff you find at like ross or tj maxx
@GSH thank you! Unfortunately they don't have my size in stock
my fav dress shirt is my only dress shirt, a white poplin from Kent Wang. I sent them a shirt that fit me well and they made a shirt with the same dimensions. Super soft, feels great, cost me $100ish. Wouldn't recommend doing MTM shirts unless you go in person or send in a shirt to replicate though
Joe and Boris really worst of the worst here
Didn’t know that sending in a shirt was an option thats cool!
yeahhh and I wouldn't trust things OTR from Kent Wang, they have one cut and haven't updated it in a decade
I recently needed to buy a new dress shirt and the only OTR straight collar I could find anywhere was from Charles Tyrwhitt (as a man with an extremely square face, I can't do super spread collars, which is apparently the only kind of dress shirt sold anywhere in 2023). I paid something like $80 which felt like way too much but I think it turned out to be a reasonably high-quality shirt and I'm pleased with it.
Luxire, Proper Cloth, Individualized, Yeossal, 100 Hands
Eton, Kiton and Charvet make sick shirts but I don’t got that kinda money or the need
Spier is really hard to beat for the price, and Charles Tyrwhitt would be the only option if you need something for even less.
Mid-tier is kind of a weird spot imo. I’d rather go MTM with luxire over something like Kamakura.
Luxire is great if you know your measurements. They can do just about anything you can imagine.
I haven’t worn a proper dress shirt in years and see no need to buy another. I have a white Oxford cloth long point from drake’s that serves as my “formal” dress shirt, and for everything else there’s the OCBD.
I'd love a white oxford point collar
PRL classic fit, because they are widely and cheaply available on eBay. 🙂
My brooks brothers shirts are all I’ve needed for a decade plus, but I imagine details and construction may have changed.
lot of brooks brothers on eBay too, actually.
Keep saying I'll get some Mercer & Sons OCBDs, but the price keeps being completely absurd. One of these days
Kamakura are my go to shirts. Back when they had an NYC store I was able to get sized and stock up. G. Inglese are a splurge, but are great shirts. I usually pick one up from NMWA at end of season sales.
This thread is for dress shirts, not oxford shirts
Save these for the OCBD thread
oh sorry!
Goddamn pedestrian oxfords fucking up the patrician dress shirt chat
anyone try mtailor for shirting? pretty good prices on mtm stuff
rtw stuff - ted baker, eton, ysl, ralph lauren
This upsets me
Really? I thought an ivy boy would be the first to argue an OCBD is not a dress shirt (yes yes I know there's royal oxford, pinpoint oxford, etc)
They are the jack of all trades shirt to us east coast elitists
Press has my back on this
No one has mentioned Gitman Bros. I have a shirt from them that is beautiful
Eton is good if you are in Europe, but their price in the US is higher than many MTM services.