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I am the proprietor of a forty year old custom tailoring business located in Madeira, Ohio. I am searching for a RTW shirt to compliment our custom shirts and custom tailored clothing.

I currently stock Aster and in the past I have carried Hilditch and Key. Do you have other suggestions? I am mostly concerned about quality and fabric selection.

Thank you in advance.

Trevor

I am from Dayton, not too far from you. I have tried virtually every Jermyn St rtw shirt maker for the past five years. I have found that Harvie and Hudson is the best and possibly the most stylish. You can check their web site to get a sampling. Their stripes are truly what a British shirt should look like and they are still made in the UK>

I once bought an American RTW shirt that I thought excellent, made by "__ Gordon" or "Gordon __", if I remember correctly. I do remember that the label claimed manufacture in New Orleans, and that the maker had some affiliation with Robert Talbot, the maker of neckties.

From the way you have asked, i figured you wher looking for American made.
But otherwise there are several I would reccomend from personal experience.
Baldesarini (hugo Boss) Canali, Zegna, Brioni and several other Italian.
I guess there are some In england, but so far the british shirts i have tryed have not been to my liking.

My2c

Good morning Trevor,

i don`t want to insult anyone, but personally can`t quite understand the recomendation of Harvie&Hudson shirts. They indeed have some nice and unique fabrics but I think their construction is not the best. For example they us double needle stitching, they don`t match the patterns, the double-cuffs are not rounded, the lining of the collars is a bit "cardboardy", the MOP buttons tend to break easily because they are very thin and i personally don´t like the style of their RTW spread collar. Saying that I only have experience with H&H RTW.
I would rather recommend T&A or H&K. But there is another company which I can highly recommend from personal experience: Coles Shirtmakers of London. They have everything I am looking for in a RTW shirt: single-needle-stitiching (lots of stitches per inch), pattern-matching, rounded cuffs, a nice cutaway-collar, nice MOP buttons, and, what matters most to me several sleeve lengths (to be fair H&H has that as well) and a slim-fit-line. Check out their website: coles-shirtmakers-com.

Kind regards Oliver

RWS wrote:I once bought an American RTW shirt that I thought excellent, made by "__ Gordon" or "Gordon __", if I remember correctly. I do remember that the label claimed manufacture in New Orleans, and that the maker had some affiliation with Robert Talbot, the maker of neckties.

Would that be Kenneth Gordon? They're part of IAG.

The best RTW shirts I have used are Charvet. However, there are Italian makes like Truzzi and Fray which are very good.

Is Charvet RTW really all that it's cracked up to be?

Yes, RJ, Kenneth Gordon -- thanks. If they're now owned by IAG, my information about affiliation with Talbot[t] either is outdated or never was accurate.

What of Hamilton, in Texas? I've read that the company make RTW as well as to-measure, and that the shirts (especially now, with the sinking dollar) give best value for price.

1. Individualized Shirts through its y'Pres division. I am guessing that it would carry a retail price of about $300. Made in the USA.

2. Luigi Borrelli. It seems that the retail price is $400+.