Kabbaz Shirts - Page 3

You should appreciate this, they actually have tissue in the sleeves. Stuffed in their by the cleaner.

Actually, it is more crumpled, for structure. Kasper, you know a lot about this. Are you in the biz?

I find it makes no difference to how they wear.

It was more a debate about whether quality exists, how it can be judged, whose word can be trusted, how many opinions are necessary before the sample size is valid, etc. But Kabbaz figured prominently. J squirrelled it.

It's not so much that I don't like them; the shirts are good and I still wear all the ones they made for me. But in my most recent dealings with them (now two years ago) they made mistakes and then told me a lot of BS to try to cover those mistakes. Since then, they have apparently been telling a phony version of the story to others, who choose to reference that with allusions to dark motives rather than give any specifics. FYI, I have laid out all the specifics of my complaint in the past and would do so again if anyone cared.

I also found at Geneva a greater willingness to make incremental changes, and the follow-through to see that those changes get made. As a result, my Geneva shirts fit much better, or at least, fit more according to how I want my shirts to fit. Geneva's buttons are also better, though not as good as Kabbaz's.

Many people -- including Kabbaz and Carl Goldberg -- say that Paris is better equipped to make unusual commissions. This may well be true. They made my formal shirt, and it is terrific. I haven't asked Geneva to do anything unusual.