Lately, for say, the past two weeks, I've been dressing more business like. I've been really getting into it. It makes me feel a little more respectable and it is actually a bit more comfortable than street clothes, in my opinion. Dressing nice is something I've been wanting to do for a while, but really couldn't find any good motivation to. With the new job and location, I figured it would be a good time to start.
I've got a few dress shirts from over the past few years that I wear. I'm a tall guy, with abnormally long arms. I'm also pretty thin compared to most. Seems every shirt I have or have tried on does not fit quite right. It's like they are designed in a way that says I need to gain 30lbs. This also includes most fitted shirts. The back of these shirts puff out like a boat sail. I can't necessarily get a smaller size, either, since the smaller shirts don't have the correct arm length.
How is it, that I am more or less a healthy size and nothing fits? This may be laughable, but I actually did some Googling on the subject of how to find a decent fitted dress shirt, and most places I came across would forward a concern that America in whole is a bigger country than it was 50 years ago. The average American shirt size is a bit larger than it used to be and is also tailored baggier as more men find that comfortable. It only makes sense to tailor shirts based on an average demographic, but it leaves me with few options.
From what I read, these are a few routes I could go: I could get my shirts tailored at $8-10 a pop, or I could buy $80 Italian dress shirts. Both sound much less appealing than throwing $20 on the table for a shirt at JC Penny. I should have been alive in the earlier half of the 20th century, I guess.
posted at 11/17/2007 1 Comments