• Hi, I am the owner and main administrator of Styleforum. If you find the forum useful and fun, please help support it by buying through the posted links on the forum. Our main, very popular sales thread, where the latest and best sales are listed, are posted HERE

    Purchases made through some of our links earns a commission for the forum and allows us to do the work of maintaining and improving it. Finally, thanks for being a part of this community. We realize that there are many choices today on the internet, and we have all of you to thank for making Styleforum the foremost destination for discussions of menswear.
  • This site contains affiliate links for which Styleforum may be compensated.
  • We would like to welcome House of Huntington as an official Affiliate Vendor. Shop past season Drake's, Nigel Cabourn, Private White V.C. and other menswear luxury brands at exceptional prices below retail. Please visit the Houise of Huntington thread and welcome them to the forum.

  • STYLE. COMMUNITY. GREAT CLOTHING.

    Bored of counting likes on social networks? At Styleforum, you’ll find rousing discussions that go beyond strings of emojis.

    Click Here to join Styleforum's thousands of style enthusiasts today!

    Styleforum is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Number of shirts in rotation?

Number of shirts in rotation?

  • Less than 10

    Votes: 26 15.4%
  • Between 10 and 20

    Votes: 59 34.9%
  • Between 20 and 30

    Votes: 35 20.7%
  • Between 30 and 40

    Votes: 24 14.2%
  • Bigtimer; over 40 (and wear two a day)

    Votes: 25 14.8%

  • Total voters
    169
  • Poll closed .

TheTukker

Distinguished Member
Joined
Aug 17, 2007
Messages
2,560
Reaction score
139
Time for an updated poal (if anything, hopefully this can serve as an excuse for me to increase my #): how many shirts do you have? And how many do you have in actual rotation?
 

musicguy

Distinguished Member
Joined
Oct 1, 2008
Messages
4,022
Reaction score
87
I've got 10. It's not much, but they all are MTM or fit really well.

Four white, four blue (two ocbd, one stripes, one checks), one pink ocbd, one orange and white stripes.
 
Last edited:

gdl203

Purveyor of the Secret Sauce
Affiliate Vendor
Dubiously Honored
Supporting Member
Joined
Jun 9, 2005
Messages
45,576
Reaction score
54,239
I try to keep them under 75
 

stubloom

Senior Member
Joined
Jun 18, 2010
Messages
348
Reaction score
60
For those of you that use a professional shirt laundry, I advise the Rule of 7: 7 in the closet, 7 in the laundry hamper, and 7 at the cleaners.

How did I come up with this?

About 20 years ago, I had a client with 2 custom shirts in his closet. Every evening at around 5:45 (we close at 6:00) he'd show up, strip off one shirt and collect one freshly laundered shirt. One day he showed up and his shirt wasn't ready....a large transformer had caught fire in our area and the power was off for the better part of the day. He threw a fit that his shirt for the following day wasn't ready.
 

Achillus

Distinguished Member
Joined
Jul 1, 2011
Messages
1,231
Reaction score
27
More then 30 is actually unnecessary. If we not speak about duplicates.
 
Last edited:

Shirtmaven

Distinguished Member
Dubiously Honored
Joined
Dec 26, 2003
Messages
3,790
Reaction score
1,002
even if i was not in the trade i would have over 40 shirts
you need shirts for work
casual shirts for both summer and winter
as well as all season casual shirts

who want s to wear the same few shirts over and over again
 

Agatha Crusty

Senior Member
Joined
Oct 4, 2009
Messages
166
Reaction score
5
Per week? Per month? It's 6-8 in week, so about 25-30 a month. I wash them with my own hands so I have little time to spare for more than that.
 

Achilles_

Distinguished Member
Joined
Sep 16, 2010
Messages
3,319
Reaction score
52

even if i was not in the trade i would have over 40 shirts
you need shirts for work
casual shirts for both summer and winter
as well as all season casual shirts

who want s to wear the same few shirts over and over again


I would assume he means business/dress shirts.
 

DerekS

Guyliner
Joined
Sep 17, 2010
Messages
8,338
Reaction score
4,743
wow. I really thought there would be some high numbers. I recently bought all new hangers for my shirts...I bought 80 hangers and have a few left over..so ive got about 75. I guess i should slow down or thin the herd. About half of them are ermenegildo zegna, the rest a nice mix of borrelli, charvet, and turnbull.

theres still a few empty slots for a new kiton or attolini. ;)
 

Kid Nickels

Distinguished Member
Joined
Nov 18, 2010
Messages
7,821
Reaction score
1,897

wow. I really thought there would be some high numbers. I recently bought all new hangers for my shirts...I bought 80 hangers and have a few left over..so ive got about 75. I guess i should slow down or thin the herd. About half of them are ermenegildo zegna, the rest a nice mix of borrelli, charvet, and turnbull.

theres still a few empty slots for a new kiton or attolini. ;)


ya...I'd say in the 50 range. I'm long and lean so almost nothing fits me OTR. 95% of them are custom made.
 

DocHolliday

Stylish Dinosaur
Dubiously Honored
Joined
Apr 21, 2005
Messages
16,090
Reaction score
1,158
I couldn't begin to guess how many I have. But I have five or so per season that typically make up the core rotation.

Lately I've found I need fewer and fewer as my tastes slip back toward the simplicity of solids, simple blue-and-white stripes and blue gingham.
 

MyOtherLife

Distinguished Member
Joined
Sep 30, 2009
Messages
6,468
Reaction score
522
Over 150, I lost count.
 

idfnl

Stylish Dinosaur
Joined
Dec 6, 2008
Messages
17,305
Reaction score
1,260
+/- 80
 

JamesX

Distinguished Member
Joined
Jun 14, 2010
Messages
1,031
Reaction score
18
In regular rotation ~40, but they get swapped out with their variations (usually color) ever so often.
 

Featured Sponsor

How important is full vs half canvas to you for heavier sport jackets?

  • Definitely full canvas only

    Votes: 45 40.5%
  • Half canvas is fine

    Votes: 44 39.6%
  • Really don't care

    Votes: 5 4.5%
  • Depends on fabric

    Votes: 18 16.2%
  • Depends on price

    Votes: 25 22.5%

Forum statistics

Threads
504,455
Messages
10,574,014
Members
223,711
Latest member
Swissy
Top