Introducing Shirts My Way
February 4, 2009 by Dexie Wharton
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Shirts My Way, those 3 words sound appealing, no? How about if I tell you that www.ShirtsMyWay.com just launched an online website with a platform to help you design and then buy your own shirts. It’s a user-friendly platform designed to make your shopping experience for dress shirt so much better.
www.ShirtsMyWay.com has cuffs, buttons, collars, prints, etc to make designing your dress shirts fun and innovative. The possibilities are endless. Can you imagine 7 trillion different ways to design a shirt?
What are you waiting for, start creating your shirt now at www.ShirtsMyWay.com. Dressing up has never been this fun.
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I gave ShirtsMyWay a try some time back, so here are my two cents.
I generally found designing my shirt a very pleasant experience, I love that they go so deep into details with the options.
I was amazed at the quality level of fabric and workmanship of the shirt I had designed. I was actually just giving them a try because I really liked their website, but with this kind of performance I think I have found my new home of dress shirts.
I ordered the fabric called ‘fast track’ and although it is priced at $85, I have other shirts with this kind of fabric that cost $150 and they were not custom made.
One thing before trying them out I was a bit skeptical about was the fit. I got my partner to take the measurements according to their guide. Fortunately, the fit was good. I think I can make a few small adjustments for my next order and I will be getting perfect fitting shirts.
My recommendation: Give these guys a try, if it turns out as well for you as it did for me, I think you will only be using ShirtsMyWay from now on for buying shirts.
Cheers,
Richard
I love the idea and the range of shape tweaks was great, but I was really dissappointed with the range of colours and fabrics
A fair word of warning to people interested in http://www.shirtsmyway.com. I wish I had read one before I ordered.
I was very excited to find an alternative to ordering bespoke shirts from my tailor. Not that he doesn’t deserve the mark-up – it’s just that as a post-doc I can’t really afford his spectacular service. So imagine the euphoria, when I thought I could get shirts matching in quality, for a quarter of the price, straight from the Internet.
I meticulously measured the required lengths with the help of my wife. I could’ve done something wrong, but it really was in the right ballpark – at least compared to the received outcome. The shirt arrived in just 6 business days – despite me skipping the more expensive 9 day-delivery and opting for the free 15-day one. That is where the positive surprises ended.
Firstly, the fabric. I ordered the basic white option, described as ‘medium thick’ cotton. I kid you not – I own towels and rugs more suited for use in a formal dress shirt! The coarseness, the thickness, hardness of the fabric – tt would be unimaginable to wear the shirt on a hot, sunny day. I do not know, what they did to the collar – it is thicker than the lapels of my suits. The overall finish quality is appalling – stitching is a bit sloppy and over the place – lines aren’t straight, there are a couple of loose threads hanging here and there.
Even if one could live with the fabric, or assuming the other fabrics are better, I found lots of disappointing details.
Starting from the top: collar stays. I ordered the removable ones – the opening for them is non-standard (at least mine do not fit), and none were shipped with the shirt.
Amount of buttons. 6? 6?!! My dress shirts have 8-9 buttons on the placket. I can just imagine the charm of my chest hair sticking out of the shirt.
This relates closely to the length of the shirt and form of the bottom cut. The shirt is 4cm too short, despite the measurement being made according to the instructions, following a perfect exemplary bespoke shirt. The variance of the lengths of the side and front of the ‘tail’ cut is almost twice as big, as I’ve used to. Result: On the sides, the lower seam of the shirt isn’t covered by my suit trousers!
The same applies to the length of the sleeve and the cuffs. I don’t need to unbutton the cuffs to put the shirt on. And when it is on, the cuffs are 10 cm above my knuckles. Despite best efforts to make the measurements right, once again.
And finally, even if I could live with all this, the fit of the shirt is awful. The tailor obviously had problems with understanding the ‘slim fit’ option. Despite being a tall guy with big bones, I sure as heck want to show off my athletic build, in which my previous bespoke shirts have definitely helped – try finding a slim fit dress shirt with a 112cm chest and 87cm gut! The result of shirtsmyway.com attempting those measurements: the whole shirt looks funny and a bit skewed. And it isn’t even close to my definition of slim fit – it hangs loose.
I deeply regret spending 59$ on this shirt. Perhaps this was just an unfortunate accident, and all other customers are satisfied – I will be more than glad to see this business and the business model evolve into something usable.