Luxire Custom Clothing - Official Affiliate Thread - Page 116

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Originally Posted by Zarium 

Plain back or center pleat. Although I absolutely hate a box pleat on normal dress shirts, I somewhat like it on an OCBD. It's useless to me functionally, but it's in keeping with tradition. Which a lot of aspects of clothing are.

 

No shirred sleeves/back, they're terribly hideous. A shirred sleeve when overdone (I've seen a really pronounced Neapolitan one, which is no surprise since they seem to enjoy exaggeration) looks like a woman's dress shirt and is a terrible look.

OK, I'll consider going with a plain back for my next order then.

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Originally Posted by Louis XIV 

I like the second shirt a lot more on you than the first one.
The changes to the waist paid off.
Have you changed the sleeves as well? Those of the second shirt look slimmer in the upper arm. In your place I would still ask for more taper from the elbows to the cuffs though.
Other from that I would suggest wearing and washing it several times and to decide afterwards which smaller changes you still might want to make to it.

Thank you! I made the cuffs 0.5" bigger. I did mention in the note that I liked how the sleeves look on my previous shirt but it seems like the bigger cuffs still make the sleeves balloon out. Or maybe I should just stick with the smaller cuffs after all.

Edit: just noticed bourbonbasted asked the same question as me about linen/cotton blend fabrics above. Would be very interested in these.

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Originally Posted by bourbonbasted 

Luxire, any plans for stocking linen/cotton blend shirting? Solid white and sky blue would be ideal for Spring/Summer.

+1 on the color choices. I'd say solid white, sky blue, pale blue, and maybe another few shades of blue and/or blue/white stripes would be perfect.

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Originally Posted by emptym 



You generally give pretty good advice, L, but the way you keep advocating slimming sleeves that already look too trim, makes me wonder if you wear shirts. Imo, if I can reach up and bend my elbow quickly -- say to scratch my head -- and the shirt tugs at my elbow, the sleeve is too tight. This is both irritating and an indication that the elbows will tear relatively quickly due to the constant straining.
Imo, if you want the sleeves of that shirt to look ripple/wrinkle free you'll mainly need to decrease the length of the sleeve. But that would mean your sleeves will ride up when you raise your arms.

In the end, I guess it all depends on your goals. If you almost never wear a suit/sport coat and your main goal for a shirt is to look like a GQ model when standing straight, then slimming and shortening sleeves might be a good idea. Don't forget though, that the garments in many GQ shoots have been pinned back. Plus, the models don't really need to live in those garments. To achieve that look, you'll make a trade-off in mobility and durability.

Like some of the people in this thread, I've only started to work on my wardrobe recently. I mostly wore RTW clothing before. The fit was always too big since I am slim guy. So this probably makes me a bit too excited when doing MTM. Your point is very valid and I'll keep that in mind. I found and looked at your pictures posted in this thread. I think the sleeves on your shirts have some extra room but still looks tapered down to the cuffs. So I think tapering the sleeves slightly as L suggested will do some good, but I'll keep the sleeves width as was.

Any news on hopefully coming Pique-Polos?