I understand that they make a good shirt at a rockbottom price.
How are they and how do they work?
Does the customer send a shirt to copy?
Do they send swatches?
What are the prices like?
How is the customer service?
Thanks.
Jantzen Shirtmaker
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Guest
You may want to go to
styleforum.net
and do a search on that site or ask your question there
Lots of Jantzen customers on that board.
styleforum.net
and do a search on that site or ask your question there
Lots of Jantzen customers on that board.
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Guest
First, the contact information:
(Ricky) 8522-570-5901 info@jantzentailor.com http://www.jantzentailor.com/
I personally think Jantzen is great for anyone, even future devotes of the AK. First, working with Jantzen is a cheap way to define your pattern and preferences, albeit painful if you are impatient (like myself). Any craftsman is improved by an educated customer who knows what he wants.
The shirts are nicely (machine) made, with nice buttons.
One reason I may be so happy with them is that long distance bespoke works best for someone like myself who does not have a nice body and therefore does not want a tight-fitting shirt.
The main drawback to Jantzen is the materials: there is absolutely no way to pry their hands from a swatch book. The best way I have found to get shirts is to ask Ricky to select from a type such as "your best summer-weight white fabric" or "a selection of winter weight French blues." LAso, use the phone, not email or the web site, unless you do not mind gambling with delivery times.
I could imagine being very happy with most of my shirts' being from Jantzen but any special patterns or materials from a local (expensive) shirtmaker who would allow me the opportunity to pick fabrics in the shop.
Here are the shirts I would recommend to anyone, for various reasons:
1) Jantzen: for the reasons above
2) Giampaulo: one of many (I imagine) Barba-like brands, only available at a Philadelphia boutique called Uomo e Nella so far as as I know, made out of exceptionally robust cottons and extremely well-made. He also sells Marol.
3) Bugelli: superbly crafted. In the end, as nice as he is (and he is very nice), he is very difficult to deal with at a distance. But the shirts were a valuable lesson for me as to the upper limits of shirt craftsmanship.
I could take or leave my Barbas, ironically: too much variation in fit and style, too hard to get in the USA. Purdey and Bruar Tattersalls are nothing to write home about. Forget Liste Rouge, just another MTM shirt and still one concerned with the "rules," like NYC T&A is supposed to be.
(Ricky) 8522-570-5901 info@jantzentailor.com http://www.jantzentailor.com/
I personally think Jantzen is great for anyone, even future devotes of the AK. First, working with Jantzen is a cheap way to define your pattern and preferences, albeit painful if you are impatient (like myself). Any craftsman is improved by an educated customer who knows what he wants.
The shirts are nicely (machine) made, with nice buttons.
One reason I may be so happy with them is that long distance bespoke works best for someone like myself who does not have a nice body and therefore does not want a tight-fitting shirt.
The main drawback to Jantzen is the materials: there is absolutely no way to pry their hands from a swatch book. The best way I have found to get shirts is to ask Ricky to select from a type such as "your best summer-weight white fabric" or "a selection of winter weight French blues." LAso, use the phone, not email or the web site, unless you do not mind gambling with delivery times.
I could imagine being very happy with most of my shirts' being from Jantzen but any special patterns or materials from a local (expensive) shirtmaker who would allow me the opportunity to pick fabrics in the shop.
Here are the shirts I would recommend to anyone, for various reasons:
1) Jantzen: for the reasons above
2) Giampaulo: one of many (I imagine) Barba-like brands, only available at a Philadelphia boutique called Uomo e Nella so far as as I know, made out of exceptionally robust cottons and extremely well-made. He also sells Marol.
3) Bugelli: superbly crafted. In the end, as nice as he is (and he is very nice), he is very difficult to deal with at a distance. But the shirts were a valuable lesson for me as to the upper limits of shirt craftsmanship.
I could take or leave my Barbas, ironically: too much variation in fit and style, too hard to get in the USA. Purdey and Bruar Tattersalls are nothing to write home about. Forget Liste Rouge, just another MTM shirt and still one concerned with the "rules," like NYC T&A is supposed to be.
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