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Dress Shirt shrinking vs Altering

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johnnydrama

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I recently got a very nice tom ford dress shirt as a gift. I usually wear 15/38 this shirt is 15.5/39 it looks very big/long on me and i don't know if i should try to shrink it or go get it altered?
 
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How much too long are the arms? I got mine made 2 cm longer than the original length for years because they would shrink.
 
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I would pay to have it professionally altered.
 
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Veremund said:
Wear and wash it a couple of times. Only then get it altered.
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+1
+1 again.

As someone who's a stickler for sleeve length (and I need a solid 35"+, which is hard to come by OTR) I wash+iron+wear every shirt at least twice before I do any alterations. I learned the hard way after having a couple of beloved shirts altered immediately after purchase and after a couple of cleanings they were too small, short, tight, whatever.
 
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