Custom Tailored shirts. Without getting felt up.

I have been on a quest for a perfect shirt, but my proportions apparently do not match the prototypical North American male. I will for example buy a dress shirt based on the largish collar size (time spent in gokarts?) but then the waste is all puffy. I match the sleeves and then it is too narrow in the chest. Nothing works. Maybe Hugo Boss slim fit is the closest.

I thought about a custom tailored shirt, and I even got a phone number for someone in San Francisco, but the trip, the cost ($300), and, ahem ...the personal nature of the examination and measuring had put me off. It was probably mostly the laziness.

I never, ever click on Facebook ads. But it was probably the fact that the posting mentioned the word "algorithm", as it pertained to clothing. It was a site called Custom Dress Shirts | Custom Made to the Highest Standards - Proper Cloth
You go in and get interviewed: waist size, collar size, jacket size, weight, height, tucked/untucked preferences. Maybe 12 questions. Then the algorithm goes to work. The fun part comes later, which is designing your own shirt. I can pick from fabrics/patterns, dozens of collar styles, button colors, linings, pockets/no pockets, cuffs with 1/2 buttons, or multi-colored initials.

2 weeks later...some children in an exotic country are done and I get my shirt.
It really fits! And they tell you to launder it and return it for alterations, if need be.

I think propercloth has competitors online, but this is the first ad clicking on FB, and it was positive.

PM me if you want a $20 off coupon code for first order, should you want to play with fabrics. I get some credit towards my next creation. I am thinking black with a purple pattern collar lining and a Londoner collar.

 

yes, "unfiltered reviews" will always be good for some entertainment.

In general...copy editing in the age of internet is a lost art. I see cnn and mainstream pubs with glaring errors and typos. I would be depressed if journalism were my profession due to the seemingly lowered standards. I actually still pay for content (NYT), where the editors pay more attention to originality and quality. Everyone else regurgitates the same old garbage that is seldom fact-checked. I guess it appeals to the lowest common denominator reader, and they are happy enough with this titillating click-bait.

 

Here is the link if anyone wants to try them and it is good for $20 off the first order:

https://propercloth.com/i/8axkr9