Conical Cuffs on bespoke shirts - who's tried this?

bourbonbasted said:

Hilla, you ever had a bespoke shirt made? It seems this would be a great instance of "ask your tailor." FWIW I don't have any special cuff design on my shirts and they are neither too wide nor too narrow because they are measured for my wrist. Granted, I always add 0.5" to my left wrist for watch space, but that doesn't affect the basic barrel design.

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jefferyd said:

Shirt cuffs are normally cut straight. To get the conical shape you need to cut them on a curve, which is why the stripes on the cuff in the OP's photo are wonky.



Thanks Jeffery - makes sense now. I took an intro menswear construction class at FIT last year so I should have been able to figure this out myself but diagrams definitely help. In your opinion, do you find this adds any practical value for those of us that like cuffs that hit at a certain point on your wrist but aren't suffocatingly tight?

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jhilla said:

In your opinion, do you find this adds any practical value for those of us that like cuffs that hit at a certain point on your wrist but aren't suffocatingly tight?

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dieworkwear said:

FWIW jhilla, the shirtmaker we were talking about that does that for free. At least from my experience, I wanted to experiment on a collar, but wasn't sure what I would do if the experiment went bad. They said they'd try it out with the new collar, and if I didn't like it, they'd just make my old style and swap it out. Seemed like a safe bet, so I gave it a shot and the experiment worked out.

I'm sure they're not the only people who offer that, of course.

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