For any fashion conscious professional in Shanghai, it’s all about tailoring when it comes to dress and work shirts. From about RMB300 (₤30.00), you can get a pretty decent quality work shirt tailor-made to your exact measurements, or splurge on an RMB800.00 (₤80.00) one at one of the more high-end bespoke tailors. At 6ft 3in tall, I have to get work shirts tailor-made or shipped over, since all the off-the-rack shirts (heaven forbid) are made for Chinese sizes, meaning the bottom cut is wee-bit too short for my long torso.
Unfortunately the tailors in Shanghai, as skilled as they can be, just don’t have the creative flair to design truly amazing dress shirts. However, I recently came across www.ShirtsMyWay.com, this site set up by a bunch of Danish fellas (gotta love those Danes!) provide a start-to-finish online custom order dress & work shirt service.
Not only can you choose the fabric, collar, placket, cuffs, etc. You can mix and match colours and fabrics for different sections of the shirt and give them that little extra something. The number of options is so great; they claim that there are 7 million different combinations.
Unfortunately the tailors in Shanghai, as skilled as they can be, just don’t have the creative flair to design truly amazing dress shirts. However, I recently came across www.ShirtsMyWay.com, this site set up by a bunch of Danish fellas (gotta love those Danes!) provide a start-to-finish online custom order dress & work shirt service.
Not only can you choose the fabric, collar, placket, cuffs, etc. You can mix and match colours and fabrics for different sections of the shirt and give them that little extra something. The number of options is so great; they claim that there are 7 million different combinations.
It truly is amazing service in tailoring for the 21st century, and at US$65.00 (₤43.50) a shirt, and free international shipping (yes on ALL orders, regardless of quantity) you can't loose. There interface allows you to see the finished product and you can choose from either standard sizes or input exact measurements for a truly bespoke, tailored shirt. What’s even better is you can name your design and keep it stored in your account for when you want to order it again.
Currently I’m working on this grey shirt, with white outer collar & cuffs and salmon inner collar & cuffs, plus a salmon conceald placket (God I love a concealed placket), which I’m calling "Urban Calm". I think I'll be easily addicted to designing a number of shirts for the rest of this week.
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