I'm just baffled by trying to find the right size shirt, despite numerous attempts. I'm 180lbs, 5'11'', and ~39 inch chest.
I was initially dumb and went for a 15 slim dress shirt, which I wore for a while trying to convince myself that they were okay but honestly they were too small.
The next shirts I got were 15 contemporary sports shirts, which have essentially the same measurements as a 15.5 slim but with slightly shorter sleeves, good for my stub arms. I basically feel like they fit okay enough the next time I needed a dress shirt I went for a 15.5 slim.
Surprisingly, since they have almost identical measurements, I found that the 15.5 slim dress shirt felt a lot better than my 15 contemporary sports shirts. One explanation could be that the shoulders are very slightly wider on the 15.5 slim dress shirt (18.25 vs 18) but I busted out the measuring tape and it seems like the dress shirt is actually cut a bit wider in the chest, despite the measurements being stated as the same...
I figured this was a fluke and decided to go up a size for my next order to 16 slim dress shirt. However, the increase in size is actually quite large, and now that it just arrived I feel like it's definitely too big.
So I guess I'm left with a few options:
1) try 15.5 slim again and pray that in fact my one shirt in that size is not a fluke and others will fit like it
2) try 15.5 contemporary, which is actually slightly narrower in the chest than 16 slim (44 vs 44.5), and see if that splits the difference well enough
3) just give up
Not much point to this post, just felt like ranting
I was initially dumb and went for a 15 slim dress shirt, which I wore for a while trying to convince myself that they were okay but honestly they were too small.
The next shirts I got were 15 contemporary sports shirts, which have essentially the same measurements as a 15.5 slim but with slightly shorter sleeves, good for my stub arms. I basically feel like they fit okay enough the next time I needed a dress shirt I went for a 15.5 slim.
Surprisingly, since they have almost identical measurements, I found that the 15.5 slim dress shirt felt a lot better than my 15 contemporary sports shirts. One explanation could be that the shoulders are very slightly wider on the 15.5 slim dress shirt (18.25 vs 18) but I busted out the measuring tape and it seems like the dress shirt is actually cut a bit wider in the chest, despite the measurements being stated as the same...
I figured this was a fluke and decided to go up a size for my next order to 16 slim dress shirt. However, the increase in size is actually quite large, and now that it just arrived I feel like it's definitely too big.
So I guess I'm left with a few options:
1) try 15.5 slim again and pray that in fact my one shirt in that size is not a fluke and others will fit like it
2) try 15.5 contemporary, which is actually slightly narrower in the chest than 16 slim (44 vs 44.5), and see if that splits the difference well enough
3) just give up
Not much point to this post, just felt like ranting