Shirts (95)

How the chest should fit The perfect fit of a dress shirt at the chest is a matter of personal preference. If you prefer a more relaxed fit, you can make the chest as large as … Read →

Updated 2/21/2023 Most shirts are expected to shrink by some amount and at Proper Cloth we take this into account. It is generally not necessary to understand why or how this works. The important thing to … Read →

To order a short sleeve shirt, you’ll first want to create a short sleeve shirt size in the Custom Sizes section of your account. You can use our handy tool for converting your long sleeve dress … Read →

Creating A Style Profile Proper Cloth offers the ability to save your favorite collar, cuff, pocket, placket, yoke, button, and monogramming options as a ‘Style Profile’ in your account. Style Profiles can be created and modified … Read →

We offer a few different short sleeve design options: (Plain) Short Sleeve, Cuffed Short Sleeve, and Polo Short Sleeve. Each design option has particular use cases you might consider when designing your short sleeve shirt. (Plain) … Read →

While we do our best to sew each garment precisely to its specification every time, hand sewing and different fabric types naturally result in small variations. Following are the tolerances that we consider acceptable for each … Read →

The overshirt as a casual layering piece has had a surge in popularity in recent years. It can be worn as a mid layer, as light outerwear, and works well in a relaxed approach to tailored … 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 →

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 →

Milano Buttons A slim, high quality faux-horn button made from durable plastic resin, these are incredibly resistant to cracking. They feature a beautiful color variation and a subtle off-white hue. While these plastic resin buttons will … Read →

In 2015, Proper Cloth became the first menswear brand to offer custom Washed Indigo shirts. Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions we get about them. What is Washed Indigo? Washed indigo shirts go … Read →

Knit shirts have long been a staple of business casual menswear. Comfortable and versatile, they can be styled with garments of different texture, weight, and formality to achieve a wide variety of looks. Our custom knit … 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 →

The shirt hem, often defined by its shape, is the bottom end of the shirt, which is folded and hemmed to create a finished edge on the garment. Proper Cloth has three types of hems to choose … 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 →

We’ve launched exciting new improvements to our custom shirt sizing. The major changes these improvements make are: Tenth inch (0.1″) increments for all shirt dimensions. More consistent bottom button distance for all shirt lengths. Better alignment … Read →

We’re excited to announce that we’ve made some updates to our custom shirt sizing algorithm. Here are the updates, what they provide, and how they will affect custom sizes created prior to the updates. Tenth Inch … Read →

The addition of knit fabric options for custom shirts also introduces new front placket design options exclusive to these casual, stretchy fabrics. One Button Polo Front A timeless One Button Polo Front style. For those who … Read →

To add rear side pleats, a center box pleat, or center box pleat with a locker loop to your shirt, simply change the “Rear Pleats” selection within the Saved Size you want to use for the … Read →

Differences between the President Spread and English Spread collar When choosing a collar, one should consider more than just the spread of the collar–size will also be an important consideration. We made our President Spread collar … Read →