Fit Advice (60)

Overshirts are meant to have a more casual and boxy fit than your business and formal dress shirts have. As such, we recommend you adjust your usual shirt size and save a separate size specifically for … Read →

How It Should Fit: Slight taper from elbow to cuff When standing upright with your arms at rest, the jacket sleeves should be slim enough to look fitted at the wrist, or Sleeve Opening Width, but … Read →

How It Should Fit: Resting flat along neck and shoulders A proper Shoulder Slope should match the natural angle of your shoulders. Whether you have broad, squared, rounded, or sloped shoulders, Proper Cloth offers six Shoulder … Read →

How It Should Fit: Close to the biceps, tapering slightly to the cuff When standing upright with your arms at rest, the jacket sleeves should hug your biceps, but not so tight as to cause creasing, … Read →

Our Ludlow and Waverly jogger pants are designed with a drawstring elastic waistband and elastic cuffs for a sporty, casual look. We think jogger-style pants look best with the elastic cuff sitting at or above the … Read →

How It Should Fit: Covering the seat The perfect jacket Center Back Length should cover your rear and end at the base of your seat for a stylish, universally appropriate look. For a more modern look, … Read →

The Polo Shirt Fit: Relaxed and Not Too Slim Since polo shirts will fit differently from your typical dress shirts, we recommend you adjust your usual shirt size and save a separate size specifically for polo … Read →

Pleated trousers are constructed differently from non-pleated trousers and so they require an entirely new sewing pattern. The pleats are open when the garment measurements are taken, but they are closed when the trousers are cut … Read →

How It Should Fit: Gently hugging your torso A well–tailored jacket should lightly hug your midsection and follow the curve of your back in a smooth, uninterrupted drape. There should be no pulling or bunching when … Read →

How It Should Fit: The jacket lapels should rest flat against your chest When you button the top button of your jacket, the lapels should rest smoothly and unbent on your chest. There should be no … Read →

How It Should Fit: Slightly past your shoulder bones The shoulders of a jacket should highlight your natural silhouette with smooth, uninterrupted lines and a clean drape throughout the upper chest, upper sleeves, sleeve head, and … Read →

How It Should Fit: Above your wrists, never past the heel of your palm The Proper Cloth rule of thumb holds that a jacket sleeve should expose 0.25”- 0.50” of your dress shirt cuff for a … Read →

The Very Tailored Shoulder/Armpit Fit is a new Shoulder/Armpit Fit option that can improve the fit of your shirts. If you’re looking to achieve a slimmer bicep fit (Sleeve Width) without compromising on Chest Width, the … Read →

We offer three hem shape options for your custom shirt design: the Rounded Hem, Straight Hem, and Polo Hem. The Straight Hem and Polo Hem are great options for casual shirts you intend to wear untucked, … Read →

There are a few ways you can create the perfect custom size for your 5-pocket pants. We make it easy to start from scratch, or to tweak an existing fit to make a slightly different one. … Read →

In order to maintain equal Shirt Front and Shirt Back Lengths when applying a neck posture adjustment to an existing shirt size, we suggest adjusting the Shirt Back Length. The front shirttail length is controlled automatically, … Read →

What Are Darts? Darts are two seams sewn into the back of a shirt that together remove a total of 1.5” of fabric. Each dart takes out .75” at its widest point. Darts start just below … Read →

Converting to a Short Sleeve Size Proper Cloth provides a tool to automate the process of creating a Short Sleeve shirt size. Head to your Custom Sizes page, then click the “+ Create New Size” button … Read →

With Proper Cloth you can order custom shirts in any size and style you desire. Perhaps you have your dress shirt fit perfected and are looking to create a casual shirt to wear untucked outside of … Read →

The number of buttons on the front of your shirt is a function of the Top Button Placement, the Back Length, and your Posture setting. Generally speaking, longer shirts or shirts with a higher Top Button Placement … Read →