Most important handwork on a shirt

[Seaminglyso]

Ideally, all my dress shirts would be fully handmade, except for seams that absolutely need the strength of machine sewing. I honestly don't discern a comfort difference between hand finished sleeves and machine attached, and a hand attached collar feels (to me) just like a machine attached collar. Hand made button holes are great, but machine made ones do the job adequately. But in the morning when I put my shirt on, I love the look of handwork. Absolutely love it. The joy I get putting on a Vincenzo di Ruggiero or Salvatore Piccolo (I tend to wear these brands most frequently) just is greater than the joy I get from my Charvet or T&A shirts. Even though I may like the Charvet or T&A fabric more (usually I do, but I do like VdR fabrics a lot and some are my absolute favorites), I like the Italian shirts simply because of the fold of the button hole and that stitching by the sleeve.

(The downside is that I absolutely will never send a shirt to the cleaners so I find myself ironing more than perhaps I have time for. I justify it on the grounds ironing is therapeutic. But I don't send any of my shirts to the cleaners anyway because of how brutally they murder buttons, collars, cuffs, and pretty much everything about the shirt that matters.)

 

[SenatorV]

At the risk of sounding pedantic, I believe the word is "yoke," not "yolk." Not that I don't enjoy a lovely scrambled egg on toasted rye with lashings of fresh ground black pepper.

 

[aristoi bcn]

Armholes.

 

[Seaminglyso]

At the risk of sounding pedantic, I believe the word is "yoke," not "yolk." Not that I don't enjoy a lovely scrambled egg on toasted rye with lashings of fresh ground black pepper.

Haha. So long as they are hand applied to the back of the shirt, they are welcome.

 

[Seaminglyso]

Interesting that yoke and shoulders were the clear leaders for the early respondents, but things are evening out quite a bit now.

 

[Thun242]

I don't like handmade garments, they are mainly for common type of people and mindset, not very extraordinary. Usually I looking for small designers with unique mindset. So for a dress shirt I looking for extraordinary ideas, like shoulder straps, asymmetric buttons, different materials on 1 shirt, and things like these.

 

[gimpwiz]

That's one of the most self-important, condescending, and arrogant things I've read this week.

 

[camez_]

That's one of the most self-important, condescending, and arrogant things I've read this week.

the best part of the forum
we need these mentally unstable comments to gear up the heat

 

[bobby jonathan]

It should cover arms, and torso.

bobby jonathan

 

[bobby jonathan]

I don't like handmade garments, they are mainly for common type of people and mindset, not very extraordinary. Usually I looking for small designers with unique mindset. So for a dress shirt I looking for extraordinary ideas, like shoulder straps, asymmetric buttons, different materials on 1 shirt, and things like these.

are you relative, of michael rother? i don't believe, he would care.

bobby jonathan

 

[strider11]

Armholes.

Life is often about quality holes.

 

[DorianGreen]

Even though I highly appreciate a well done hand-made work, think that sometimes its importance is overrated, especially on a shirt. I certainly want to have hand-made buttonholes and hand-attached sleeves and yoke, but the main stitches look better if machine-made. Maybe it's a matter of customing, but a collar, as well as a cuff, just looks better with a neat high-number machine stitching.

Very nice, accurate stitching on these shirts from Camiceria Eri.

As I said, whilst I admire the great work, I prefer a mashine stitching on collars and cuffs.

 

[Tried and True]

Handwork on shirts is a needless affectation. Suits are a different thing.

 

[bobby jonathan]

the most important handiwork , is the one no no else care about, except the one who over paid.

bobby jonathan

 

[Seaminglyso]

I generally only wear white dress shirts these days and I don't think anyone would ever tell the handwork, but when I put my shirt on in the morning, I linger over the stitching. To the extent it's an affectation, it's a personal one.