Custom dress shirts online

September 22, 2024 5:40 PM

What is your experience buying custom dress shirts online from sites such as Indochino, Proper Cloth and Hockerty? Is it worth the price? Do they fit well?
posted by roaring beast to Shopping (11 answers total)

I'd encourage you to check out /r/malefashionadvice/, which has a ton of first-person reviews of experience and result for all of these companies, and others.
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 6:17 PM on September 22

Yes, they generally fit well if you get the measurements right. I've ordered from Indochino and another MTM store whose name escapes me.

Depending on your body type you might get just as good results for less by buying a shirt from a department store that fits well in the shoulder and collar, then having a tailor make adjustments.
posted by justkevin at 6:46 PM on September 22

I get shirts on Proper Cloth - they generally fit well and the value is good - I have shirts from them that I have worn ~5 years or more on a regular basis. In my experience, the first few you order won't be perfect, but you can make small adjustments in the measurements and eventually get a shirt that you can reorder many times and have it fit very well. However, occasionally when I try a new style of shirt - like going from a dress shirt to a flannel shirt -- the measurements do not carry over well and the shirt does not fit well - this happened to me recently. If you are diligent about returning stuff that does not fit (I am not great at this), it will mitigate the risk of duds.
posted by Mid at 7:10 PM on September 22

Husband got it. A nice splurge for sure.
posted by St. Peepsburg at 7:19 PM on September 22

I get shirts from Surmesur, which is similar to those places (It's a Canadian place and I'm in Canada). The shirts I get from them fit better than any off-the-rack shirt. I go in to the store to be measured - you may want to do that if it's an option
posted by ManInSuit at 7:45 PM on September 22

Proper Cloth is the best at doing this. It’s a quality product.

Not shirts, but I had a bad experience with an Indochino jacket, which didn’t turn out to have very high quality construction and against my direction was in that way-too-close fit that thankfully seems to be going out of fashion.
posted by slkinsey at 5:47 AM on September 23

Ratio Clothing provides good service and durable MTM shirts at a non-eye-watering price. The style is classic, not trendy, the needlework excellent, the construction precise. They can accommodate for unusual body shapes, if that's important to you.
posted by seanmpuckett at 6:04 AM on September 23

My partner also has had shirts from MakeYourOwnJeans dot com, which are branded as Oliveo. It takes a couple go-rounds with them to get the sizing right. The prices are maybe half that of typical MTM. Once your pattern is made, the shirts are reliably good fit, but if you don't pay for the good fabric the shirts will wear out more quickly, which makes the value not so great. That said the variety of styles and fabrics is much greater than anywhere else.

Also the jeans are durable for the price. We haven't tried any of their other product.
posted by seanmpuckett at 6:10 AM on September 23

Nthing proper cloth.
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 6:54 AM on September 23

we use Todd Shelton. They send sample shirts to help get the measurements right and it's a great experience, great customer service.
posted by dpx.mfx at 8:15 AM on September 23

I can compare experiences with Indochino and Proper Cloth, in case it's helpful.

Indochino. I have not purchased a shirt from Indochino ever, but I have purchased chinos and a suit. The chinos are meh and the suit was terribly constructed and the whole neck basically separated from the rest of the suit after relatively few wears. The thing I absolutely hate about Indochino is they take all your measurements (because I live in LA, I did it in person) and create a size for you, but they refuse to share with you what are the measurements they are using to make your clothing. They don't want you ever going anywhere else. I guess if you send in the measurements based on another's tailor's work, this is a non-issue, but again, the quality of the clothing is meh-to-crap.

Proper Cloth. I purchased a shirt and a suit from Proper Cloth. For the shirt, they gave me TWO free re-makes so that the sizing was right, and by the third shirt, it was pretty damn near perfect. The third go-around I even changed fabrics and they were good with that too. They assigned me an extremely responsive customer service person, and I was able to send in photos of me wearing the shirt, describe the issues I had with the fit, and they made tweaks accordingly. I came to it very skeptical of using online services to get custom clothing (as opposed to being measured by a tailor), but I ended up happy. And all of your measurements--every tweak they make--is entirely and totally transparent and available to you.
posted by kensington314 at 1:50 PM on September 23