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It's personal preference. There is a distinct look of handwork that I find appealing, button holes especially. Some will argue that a shirt with hand stitched armholes will fit better, but personally I don't notice a difference.

Not trying to be here. Really. But how would you know unless you wore two shirts cut in the same cloth from the same pattern, one being sewn by hand and the other not? How? Because it looks expensive and is therefore better?

I checked a while back, and it was not sold. Double check with Ian, but it may have just been relisted or taken off the site for a bit.

Probably because of aesthetics. If threads are not going out.
There was a discussion on one of the Russian forums about handwork in shirts. There was a guy who is in the retail, who claimed that a machine stitched collar was uncomfortable for his neck. While hand-set collar was so much more comfy. It was some kind of a marketing

Try Jiffy Steamer

Handwork on a shirt is purely about artisanal detailing. In fact, Fabio Borrelli himself once said that handwork makes a shirt more fragile, which is why you can't have a shirt that's completely handmade - it'll fall apart after two washes. It also has nothing to do with fit.

At a certain price point, unless you're interested in collecting shirts like Pokemons (collect them all!), the practical route seems to be just going custom. CEGO, WW Chan, and Ascot Chang will all make you wonderful shirts for about $150. The fabrics on Ascot Chang's shirts get much better once you hit $200-250, but for many of the OTR shirts mentioned here, that's not much more money.