Custom made shirts online?

[KING HARDCASTLE]

Need to buy a few button down dress shirts for work and decided to try buying them custom made online rather than having them tailored locally.

My preferences:
1- price (under $50 + shipping if possible)
2- machine washable (no dry cleaning)
3- quality shirt + quality fit
4- breathable (I live in a very hot + humid area)
5- wrinkle free (this is a bonus)

I'll mostly be purchasing traditional white collar shirts and very conservative fabrics and designs.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

 

[phxlawstudent]

Unfortunately, 1, 3, and 4 are at odds with each other.

Try Modern Tailor or cottonworks. Your budget doesn't allow you much better.

I like Propercloth's fit guarantee and consistency. No problems with them, except they're not made in the US anymore.

 

[TheWraith]

You need to pay more if you want something even remotely close to being quality. With that in mind, I suggest either Tailorstore or Barrington Ayre. Your quoted price levels are completely unrealistic.

 

[KING HARDCASTLE]

Originally Posted by phxlawstudent

Unfortunately, 1, 3, and 4 are at odds with each other.

Try Modern Tailor or cottonworks. Your budget doesn't allow you much better.

I like Propercloth's fit guarantee and consistency. No problems with them, except they're not made in the US anymore.

Originally Posted by TheWraith

You need to pay more if you want something even remotely close to being quality. With that in mind, I suggest either Tailorstore or Barrington Ayre. Your quoted price levels are completely unrealistic.

Thanks guys.

I am completely ignorant about this subject. What's an average price for the preferences I listed above?

I don't want to spend a ton of $$ on shirts because I like variety and I like slim fitting shirts, which is a particular problem for me because I'm very into weightlifting and my body will definitely change in the next year and might make the shirts I get now unwearable. Don't want to keep getting a new expensive wardrobe every time.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Matt S]

You can get a shirt from Modern Tailor if you pick a fabric from their sale section. The best fabrics are 2-ply. Plain weaves will breath better than twill/herringbone/oxford/pinpoint. Their shirts are decently made and if you know how to measure you can get a good fit. All shirts are machine washable. When you take shirts to the cleaners they are washed in a machine, not dry cleaned. You will just need to wash and iron. Wrinkle free shirts are always of lower quality than regular cotton and almost always will still need some ironing.

 

[razl]

Originally Posted by KING HARDCASTLE

I don't want to spend a ton of $$ on shirts because I like variety and I like slim fitting shirts, which is a particular problem for me because I'm very into weightlifting and my body will definitely change in the next year and might make the shirts I get now unwearable. Don't want to keep getting a new expensive wardrobe every time.
Sorry, but given your premise your goal is impossible. Bottom line is that if you're going to get something that is slim fitting now, it's most definitely not going to work when you bulk up. It really is as simple as that. Or, alternatively, if you do find a way to bend time/space, the entire forum will be your friend for life. Well, maybe not Vox, but he's already bent it.

 

[phxlawstudent]

Originally Posted by razl

Sorry, but given your premise your goal is impossible. Bottom line is that if you're going to get something that is slim fitting now, it's most definitely not going to work when you bulk up. It really is as simple as that.

Or, alternatively, if you do find a way to bend time/space, the entire forum will be your friend for life. Well, maybe not Vox, but he's already bent it.

Yup.

Probably cheaper to pay the alterations lady $10-20 per shirt and get some at clearance for $10 somewhere.

But to answer your question, good quality fabric and workmanship starts at the absolute bottom $100 and goes up to $500

 

[malat]

Originally Posted by phxlawstudent

Yup. Probably cheaper to pay the alterations lady $10-20 per shirt and get some at clearance for $10 somewhere. But to answer your question, good quality fabric and workmanship starts at the absolute bottom $100 and goes up to $500
Totally agreed. OP will likely do better just waiting for the next Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, Neiman's etc men's sale and picking up some quality shirts at very cheap, and then taking them to your local trusted tailor to be hacked up. My tailor charges less than $20 to completely hack up any shirts I bring in (shorten legnth, sleeves, take in, move pockets etc). As long as you get a decent fit going in, this is the most cost effective way to get a good collection of quality shirts that fit really well, in my opinion.

 

[Rugger]

Buy a sewing machine and tailor your own shirts.

 

[dragon8]

I don't know if your stuck on the custom route or not but at your price point I'd try Charles Tyrwitt and TM Lewin since they have 3 for $149 sales. CT has one going on right now.

They have slim shirts available but unsure if they carry button down ones.

 

[dragon8]

Originally Posted by Rugger

Buy a sewing machine and tailor your own shirts.

LOL!

 

[TheWraith]

Originally Posted by KING HARDCASTLE

Thanks guys. I am completely ignorant about this subject. What's an average price for the preferences I listed above? I don't want to spend a ton of $$ on shirts because I like variety and I like slim fitting shirts, which is a particular problem for me because I'm very into weightlifting and my body will definitely change in the next year and might make the shirts I get now unwearable. Don't want to keep getting a new expensive wardrobe every time. Thanks for the help.
The options I supplied you have cheap, but good, quality shirtings available. Not as cheap as you stated in your original post, but that was an impossibility. The two possibilities I listed are your best bets IMO.

 

[Rugger]

Originally Posted by dragon8

LOL!

Thats funny?

 

[Rugger]

Originally Posted by bkstone

This would only lead to disastrous results for the average man.

A monkey could take the sides in on a shirt.

 

[TheWraith]

When I find a monkey talented enough to do that, then I'll hire him