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Hi,

Ordered a shirt from The White Shirt Company. Good cotton, defintely better than the slim white shirt cotton I usualy buy from Thomas Pink (office shirt) though not as good as the cotton as the Zegna shirt (special occassions) I have. Split yoke good but the french cuffs have pointed corners so the jacket cuffs can get in a tangle with them:( Also too loose, I don't like shirts that fit like wet suits neither ones that are too loose. This one looser than the regular fit Zegna, which I feel is hitting the maximum looseness that I would like to wear. For £130 I'm disappointed. I look at Coles shirt makers stock specials...

http://www.coles-shirtmakers.com/madetoorder.aspx



Thanks
Haider

Haider wrote:. . . . For £130[,] I'm disappointed. . . .

For £130, you could have a decent shirt made for you. Why not go that route instead?

With so many established quality RTW makers at lower prices - EW, Budd, Dege & Skinner, Emmett, H&H, Coles, T&A, N&L, I can't see the reason to risk a higher price on these people. I'm afraid, like Pink or Henry Jermyn, it's a bit of a marketing scam for people that don't really know better. Not that the product is entirely without value. But there are probably better options out there. I also note that sleeve length is set per collar width. This lack of configuration seems strange for a choice-led proposition at that price.

Thomas Mahon plugged the White Shirt Company on this blog - http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000242.html. £130 is too much. I would rather go bespoke at Alexander Boyd, i.e. Rayner & Sturges, at that price.

Bishop of Briggs wrote:Thomas Mahon plugged the White Shirt Company on this blog - http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000242.html. £130 is too much. I would rather go bespoke at Alexander Boyd, i.e. Rayner & Sturges, at that price.

My impression was that Teh White Shirt Company used R&S. Anyway, I think the premium is in part due to their "same day" delivery service in London, no?

rjman wrote:

Bishop of Briggs wrote:Thomas Mahon plugged the White Shirt Company on this blog - http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000242.html. £130 is too much. I would rather go bespoke at Alexander Boyd, i.e. Rayner & Sturges, at that price.

My impression was that Teh White Shirt Company used R&S. Anyway, I think the premium is in part due to their "same day" delivery service in London, no?

If I needed a white (or another colour or pattern) shirt with same day delivery, I'd call Colin at H&K in Jermyn Street. He would send it across town in a taxi. Cheaper than £130, even more so during sale time, about half the year.

rjman wrote:

Bishop of Briggs wrote:Thomas Mahon plugged the White Shirt Company on this blog - http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000242.html. £130 is too much. I would rather go bespoke at Alexander Boyd, i.e. Rayner & Sturges, at that price.

My impression was that Teh White Shirt Company used R&S. Anyway, I think the premium is in part due to their "same day" delivery service in London, no?

I was in Kerry Ford's shop on Windmill Street and saw a number of cardboard boxes with The White Shirt Company stencilled on the side several days after TM's blog. I asked him about it and Kerry said that he is the manufacturer for them.

ER wrote:I was in Kerry Ford's shop on Windmill Street and saw a number of cardboard boxes with The White Shirt Company stencilled on the side several days after TM's blog. I asked him about it and Kerry said that he is the manufacturer for them.

Hm. Given the example of Russell & Hodge's work that was posted here, I can't say I'd want to try them...

rjman wrote:

ER wrote:I was in Kerry Ford's shop on Windmill Street and saw a number of cardboard boxes with The White Shirt Company stencilled on the side several days after TM's blog. I asked him about it and Kerry said that he is the manufacturer for them.

Hm. Given the example of Russell & Hodge's work that was posted here, I can't say I'd want to try them...

I hear what you're saying and concur. I believe that whilst he is responsible for production they are not being made in the workroom/shop in London but in a production house somewhere else in the UK.

Beyond Rayner & Sturgess on the RTW front, Dege & Skinner seem to do a nice white shirt at £75. It's poplin but I don't know what quality. However, they have an excellent reputation as a bespoke shirtmaker so I imagine the RTW shirt is good quality and possibly good value as well, though I haven't as yet seen any posts with first-hand commentary.