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shirt length and button placement

Phat Ham

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I almost always wear my shirts uncutcked but don't like the really long shirt tail look. So I usually get them hemmed. The problem is with some shirts the button placement gets all weird once you cut off the bottom 2 or 3 inches of the shirt. Here's a few pics of what I'm talking about:

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same shirt, but with the bottom button unbuttoned:

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same shirt but different color and unhemmed:

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Does the hemmed shirt look weird to you guys? I'm trying to decide what to do with the purple shirt. Hem it like the orange shirt, compromise and hem it a little longer than the orange shirt, leave it as is, or give up and return it. What does SF say?
 

shanker

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hemmed shirt looks wrong. that style shirt is meant to be tucked.

either tuck or buy shirts meant to be worn untucked.
 

Master-Classter

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IMO those are pretty short tails, so I say just keep it as is. The straight cut is ok in principle, but I do think it looks a little funny with the orange/red one. Unbuttoning that bottom button helps. I'd just keep the purple on as is.


PS - standing on a toilet seat would really help, just sayin'
 

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If you're going to wear a shirt untucked it should have that curvature to the front of it or else it will look awkward. If you do anything to the purple shirt I'd say take only an inch off or so but to make sure that the tailor retains the shape of the bottom.
 

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Originally Posted by rustyshack
If you're going to wear a shirt untucked it should have that curvature to the front of it or else it will look awkward. If you do anything to the purple shirt I'd say take only an inch off or so but to make sure that the tailor retains the shape of the bottom.

So the hem on the orange shirt, which is more straight across, should be tucked? And the curved hem of the purple shirt is meant to be worn untucked? Why is this?
 

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Purple looks good in the front; but I'm guessing those are Jcrew shirts, so the length is longer in the back. I find that this extra length makes the shirt unflattering.
 

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Originally Posted by rustyshack
If you're going to wear a shirt untucked it should have that curvature to the front of it or else it will look awkward. If you do anything to the purple shirt I'd say take only an inch off or so but to make sure that the tailor retains the shape of the bottom.
This. The shirt length doesn't matter too much so long as you can pull it off (and don't unbutton that bottom button, a shirt is not a suit), but that straight across hem looks terrible untucked.
 

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Originally Posted by Rosenberg
The purple is ok as is, all other advice is highly questionable

+3

I think if I tucked that in, it would pull out as soon as started moving around so its a fine length to go untucked (the straight hem is more of a rule of thumb thing...)

What kind of shirt is it? I can never find shirts that fit like that
 

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