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Buying a shirt may sound like the simplest of tasks, but buying the perfect shirt takes a little more time and expertise. It’s worth it though, as a well-fitted shirt can not only make you look leaner and slimmer, but it can also increase your confidence and make you feel like the boss! Here are a few helpful hints and tips for finding the perfect shirt: • If you can fit more than two fingers between the collar and your neck – it’s too big! To get your right neck size, measure around the base of the neck with the tape flat against your skin. Allow room for a single finger to fit in between the tape measure and your neck – you don’t want to end up choking yourself after all! • When trying on a shirt with a suit half an inch of your cuff should show below the cuff of your jacket when your arm is at rest. Likewise, half an inch of shirt collar should show above your jacket collar, any more or any less than this and you’ll look ridiculous! • Your arms are asymmetrical, so a good tailor will always measures from your thumb tips to avoid you ending up with a shirt, or suit, that’s got one arm too long and the other too short! For more tips on buying the perfect shirt, check out the infographic below from retailer Joseph Turner
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&fabric weave
oxford
twill
end on end
a dash of detailEnd-on-end is a variant of poplin but with two di�erent coloured threads. �is gives the appearance of a solid colour from a distance, but more subtle detail up
close.
the lightest shirt weave Poplin weave shirts are ideal for wearing in the summer and they look crisp
when ironed. Poplin is a plain weave which means the threads alternatively cross over and under each other.
a more casual weave Oxford shirts can be worn professionally when there is a higher thread count. it is a basket weave where multiple weft threads are crossed over the same number
of warp threads, usually one coloured and one white thread to give the traditional checkerboard �nish.
poplin
a very durable fabricTwill is less likely to crease and easier to iron. It has a weft thread which runs over and under multiple warp threads to create patterns such as houndstooth
and herringbone:
sources: gq | ct shirts
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