ShirtsMyWay.com – Design your own custom dress shirts
5th March 2009
ShirtsMyWay.com is a unique website giving you the opportunity to design your own shirt in every detail. From fabric, colour, number of buttons on the collar, cuffs, how the buttons are arranged, you can change the colour of every part of the shirt; inside colar, cuffs, pocket, etc.
Prices are in US Dollars which isn’t hard to convert but the best thing is that there is FREE worldwide shipping.
The basic price is $60.
Watch the video as it gives a good overview of what to do and at the end there is an indepth section advising you on how to take measurements so you get the best fitting shirt possible.
If you’ve always wanted to design your own shirt then this is a great website to check out.
Some extras I’d like to see would be design advice (they mention an ebook) and also shirts designed by other people that users can vote on and buy themselves if they want. I’d probably design a total nightmare of a shirt so it would be good to buy great designs done by others.
(4.20 out of 5)
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March 21st, 2009
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.
March 21st, 2009
Thanks for the feedback Dan. Have you tried getting in contact with them about your order?