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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Slater's is the best place I've found for shirts, and men's formal wear in general.
We got suits for my wedding there, they can't do enough to help. My dad, who was best man, is disproportionately shaped, to be kind. He's not tall but needs a 16 1/2" collar which usually equates to the end of his shirt sleeves flapping in the wind. Slater's do a nice range of shirts with sleeve length options and in a range of cuts to suit different body types.
They also do free alterations for life for any suit, jacket or trousers bought from them. Can't really fault them for anything, even their prices are good.
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In ye olde days, all the bits of a shirt were built in. Now we have these bits that fall out, get bent in the wash, create creases when ironed....
Grump grump, grump...
Clothes sizing is nuts anyway I am a large in most mens shops apart from superdry where I am XL or fat face where I am M
At those prices it would cost around £1k to replace my work shirts with tailored ones. Nobody would notice, or indeed care, apart from me. And then all my casual shirts would have to be custom made because I couldn't be wearing that cheap tat on a weekend when I was tailored during the week. And then the trousers would have to be tailored. And the shoes cobbled. And the phone Vertu'd. Where does it end?
If one's tailoring is going to give a competitive edge at work over someone only high-street smart, then fair enough. The expense is justified. But there's no way in the average job that's ever going to be the case, so high street it is. The odd custom-made piece for a special occasion is nice, but overkill for work IMHO. None of the streets I sweep would care.
TL;DR - buy slim fit by default.
I get that £100 is a lot of money for a shirt but 3-4 of those is imho a better solution than 10x£30 off the peg shirts that don’t fit and don’t last.
Even 1 for important events would be in my ‘essentials’ category.
And they last.
I have tailored shirts that I’ve worn for 10 years and they still look fresh. Fresher than I do anyway.
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That's because the plastic ones are rubbish and the loose ones are only meant to be there temporarily until you can replace them with the metal ones
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They start at £49 with lots of options (most of which are free) and they're made to your measurements. Just remember to measure your wrist with your watch on, if you wear one.
Better made than the Tyrwhitt and Lewis shirts I used to buy, and as you might expect they fit beautifully.
I buy all my shirts from Charles Tyrwhitt, far better quality than M+S, I gave up on M+S over 10 years ago
For a few years they've done a "Slim fit", these work perfectly for me. They now also do "Extra slim fit"
I'd try them, and T.M. Lewin, and anywhere else you see Slim or extra slim on sale.
If you go to an outlet village place where they have Charles Tyrwhitt and TM Lewin, they are 4 shirts for £100