Slim Fit Dress Shirts

In the world of ready-to-wear everything a man with a narrow frame, narrow shoulders, and long legs may have a hard time finding slim fit shirts that compliment his body type especially if he shops in popular priced retail establishments. The standard small, medium and large sizes found in most stores usually make a slim framed man look like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man or a baggy, disheveled wrinkled version of a well-dressed man.

Men who don’t fit into the mold labeled “normal” need dress shirt help and usually pay an expensive price to get it. Slim fit dress shirts are designed for men who need a tapered fit because they have broader shoulders and a narrow waist or they have have a slimmer chest and longer arms. Custom made shirts can solve the problem, but they can be budget breakers.

Before designers like Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna, Luigi Borelli, and Budd came on the fashion scene the only brands that manufactured slim fit dress shirts were companies like Brooks Brothers, Hermes, and a one or two other high-end dress shirt manufacturers that were proud of their products and priced them accordingly. Even though wearing a dress shirt is not as popular as it once was there is still huge demand for slim fit dress shirts that compliment the frame of any body type.

Producing slim fit shirts does require a little extra work for the manufacturer, but the material consumption is lower. Dress shirts labeled slim are usually five inches trimmer in the chest and five inches slimmer in the waist, and have a yoke that is one and three quarters inches deep at center back and it extends to the natural shoulder line. The armholes are trimmer and the sleeves come in several different lengths. Most designer labels produce a slim fit dress shirt using measurements similar to those standards, so in a way they are ready-to-wear shirts that fit most slim men, but they may not work for everybody.

One of the best ways to find slim fit shirts that fits is to know your measurements and find a company that will build a slim fit shirt for you. There are companies that allow you to pick the material, your collar shape, your cuff preference, and button and pocket type. Some companies don’t have minimum order requirements and the shirts come with a thirty day guarantee.

Custom shirt companies work for men who have unusual measurements that don’t conform to the slim shirt sizes available in stock. Buying a custom shirt doesn’t have to cost more than a rack shirt if you have a little knowledge of material and labor costs. Shirts made in China are everywhere and the prices fit into almost any budget. The quality varies depending on the amount of material used as well as the quality of the buttons and method of stitching.

Thanks to the global market it’s hard not to find a dress shirt that fits any slim body.