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Short yoke on a RWT shirt. Why?

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Got a couple of Lands End shirts which have really short yokes. Short enough to catch the attention of my untrained eye. They look rather odd - not much more than a strip of fabric a couple of inches long. It just feels very very wrong. Rest of the shirt isn't bad.

Is this symptomatic of a cheap shirt? Does having a short yolk somehow save a considerable amount of money during manufacturing?
 
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I'm assuming you're referring to the front to back length, not the shoulder to shoulder length. I'm going to paraphrase someone who knows a lot more than I do and I'm not going to attribute because it might have been Manton or Kabbaz or someone else entirely:

Feel the front of your shoulder bone? Feel the back of it? That's how wide the yoke should be.

For me it works out to maybe three inches or less. I really hate the fit through the shoulders on shirts that have the yoke extend halfway down my back. They're there for fitting, not stylistic reasons.

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I'm wearing a HF shirt right now (which was a B*tch to iron this morning, but that's another story completely) that has about a 2.5" -3" yoke. Not a cheaply made shirt at all.....but now that I look at where the yoke is attached, they could have done a better job on pattern matching. The stripes that line up are in the back of the shirt instead of the front. If I were making a shirt, I'd think I'd have made the front look better...maybe that's why I don't make shirts.
 

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