Dress Shirt: 1/4" stitching vs contemporary stitching

[laxexquis]

Hello,

I have been on mytailor.com designing my own dress shirts.

These shirts will be worn to work with a suit. They will also have button cuffs, placket front and side vents.

What you you recommend?

Thanks
John

 

[grimslade]

1/4".

 

[laxexquis]

Originally Posted by grimslade

1/4".
Ok, now those shirts would be for wearing to work like I said. I am also going to order a few shirts which I'll wear to weddings with suits when I don't need to wear a tux. They will have square french cuffs, no back pleats and french front buttons. I'm thinking these shirt should have contemporary stitching, am I right?

 

[grimslade]

Do you mean a french placket or a fly front? If it has a turn-down collar then it should be a pique collar to match the pique bib of your tuxedo shirt. And yes, edge stitching would probably be better in that case.

 

[laxexquis]

Originally Posted by grimslade

Do you mean a french placket or a fly front? If it has a turn-down collar then it should be a pique collar to match the pique bib of your tuxedo shirt. And yes, edge stitching would probably be better in that case.

I mean a fly front. It is going to have a classic spread collar, no back pleats and square french cuffs.

This is not going to be a tuxedo shirt. Just a formal suit shirt compared to my everyday work shirt.

 

[grimslade]

Sorry; I misread. My mind saw tux and elided "not" or something. I might still get 1/4" stitching. I somehow associate edge stitching with cheaper, wannabe shirts. But maybe that's just me.

 

[StopPolloition]

Originally Posted by grimslade

Sorry; I misread. My mind saw tux and elided "not" or something. I might still get 1/4" stitching. I somehow associate edge stitching with cheaper, wannabe shirts. But maybe that's just me.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this way. I always thought edge stitching looked really tacky.

 

[Kaplan]

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[Kaplan]

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[tlmusic]

1/4" stitching on the placket cuffs and collar is my preference.

 

[southbound35]

I prefer the 1/4" stitching and am not a fan of edge stitching or the Pink shirt collar linked above. But, the only explanation I have for that opinion is that 1/4' stitching is what I'm used to.

For an opposing view, you might do a search on AAAC. I seem to recall a thread in which Kabbaz (a very well-known/respected shirtmaker) preached the gospel of edge-stitching.

 

[UserNameToronto]

I've gotten edge stitching on all of my Jantzens so far. I like the cleaner look, but at the end of the day fitting in at work is more important than expressing my individuality (I'm in banking, not a creative field).

Faux pas? Should I switch from edge to 1/4 moving forward?

 

[sartorialexecutive]

Originally Posted by laxexquis

Hello,

I have been on mytailor.com designing my own dress shirts.

These shirts will be worn to work with a suit. They will also have button cuffs, placket front and side vents.

What you you recommend?

Thanks
John

Edge stitching is, in my opinion, nasty

 

[Kaplan]

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[tlmusic]

Originally Posted by Kaplan

I doubt that any one will notice.

Actually that's something I notice right away. Collars are right next to a person's face. A person can benefit greatly from a collar that flatters their features.

Originally Posted by Kaplan

Does anybody have any historic insights? Did they have edge stitching on their collars in the 50's and 60's, for instance?

I believe "edge stitching" has existed for a long time. I looked at my vintage shirts and found one from the late 1950s that has 1/8" stitching on the collar--which is pretty close to the edge. Actually, it looks pretty cool on that shirt since it has a non-fused spread collar, and there must be 25+ stitches per inch.