How to buy a good dress shirt?

[Albis]

a tailor won't cost too much

you can get something decent for like 50 bucks a shirt if you go into major metros

 

[Kelvrick]

Get the stretch ones. They're like 97% cotton and like 3% something, lycra or something. I usually get mine from Express (damn the name change!) and Banana Republic. The ones from express wrinkles up much more hten the one from Banana but are often on sale for 20 bucks a pop. Ironing the express ones is also time consuming, but ever since I got one of those steamers, they've been great. I wash them on the gentlest cycle and let them hang dry. Both are slim fitting and get me compliments and questions of where I got em.

I find the only department store ones that are similar are the Calvin Klein ones.

 

[cchen]

ATOT is really not the place to ask about fashion advice. If you can give your budget, then I can reccomend some brands that have great slim fit shirts. I usually wear Thomas Pink or Turnbull and Asser. I did recently discover that Polo Ralph Lauren's custom fit shirts also fit very nicely.

 

[edprush]

any other online suggestions/recommendations for trim/fitted shirts?

 

[desteffy]

banana republic

 

[Kalbi]

ROSS

 

[LS20]

i JUST went shopping this weekend... dillars/foleys/jc penny/express/jcrew/nordstrom had nothing... the associates recommended stuff like Hugo Boss but they didnt have it in my neck/length size... found nice dress 'tailored fit' shirts at Gap retailing at 54.99$ on sale for 39.99. Fit and finish are both nice... got me a white one. Macys carry much more fitted shirts than do the other department stores... im going there next weekend for more colors/patterns


edit: this is what i bought Text

 

[abc]

Originally posted by: Lifted
Brooks Bothers has what you need. You can find shirts on sale every once in a while, just load up then. $40 - $50 marked down from $100 - $120.

They also look much better, feel much better, and will last you much longer than some JC Penny crap. Well worth it in my opinion.

yup yup... bbrothers... you can get some online too.

their retail stores carry better quality stuff than their pseudo outlets.

landsend as mentioned, is good too. both have some shirts in 'regular' 'tall' and 'fitted'.

what you looking for, button down, straight, american straight, european stitched collars? european straightd i've seen on cK, DKNY, BOSS in dept. stores.

 

[Zanix]

Gay.





/jealous

 

[rnmcd]

dfi, what did you end up buying?