Seaminglyso
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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.)
(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.)