Posted on July 3, 2010.
How to get great men Mounting dress shirt Copyright (c) 2008 Janine Giorgenti
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Everywhere you look, there are men with long hanging sleeves, neck squeezed by collars that are too tight bulge or with a very swollen tissue around their waists to sail the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. Many men seem to be either drowned in their shirts or look like stuffed sausages.
Renowned image consultant and designer clothing for men Giorgenti Janine spent 20 years measuring thousands of men for dress shirts. After listening to their frustrations, it is concluded that men want to look sharp and clean, but can not find a darn shirt that corresponds!
Homogenized America
With the onslaught of Wal-Mart stores and superstores, "men's specialty stores that once served people have disappeared as the dodo.
Mass production abroad, coupled with the reader from America to make products as cheaply as possible, caused men shirt manufacturers to "simplify" and size options lower barrier to maximize productivity.
What is the link to you? "Well, it's like, Fat Chance found that 14 ½ times available neck with a sleeve 35 and over as" Tough noog we have 14 ½ with a neck 32/33 sleeve combo, (leaving the guy with more than average arms looking like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz), so take it or leave it. "Wow, you just get a good deal to look stupid. What a deal!
Which is outside the so-called standard?
- Guys with big necks and thinner bodies. (If the shirt fits your neck, then the body is like a parachute.)
- The guy with the small neck and long arms. (The industry is now assumed that if men have a narrow neck, they are short, with short arms.)
- The guy with an athletic build. (Fuggedaboutit! If it fits your chest and shoulders, the rest of the shirt will be a tent. If it suits you from the waist down, you might as well be in a straitjacket.)
- Guy with a relatively short neck. (The necklace will be your gills.)
- Guy with long necks. (When you talk, we expect to hear, "Gobble, swallow!)
- The guys with neck sizes over 18 ½. (If you have short arms, be prepared to have your sleeves hanging by your side.)
- The guys short. (Proportions of shirts available will make you look like you're a child playing dress shirt in your father.)
- Tall, thin guys. (Good luck finding a sleeve long enough and long tail shirt with a body that does not match you two.)
How Shirt Men must register: Five tips for a great dress T-shirt
The Neck: The shirt collar should allow you to slide two fingers in the neck-band, between the throat and neck, while buttoned, without gagging. There should be room for the head to rotate and move without choking. The shirt must first have an extra ¼ - 3 ½ allow the withdrawal.
The shoulders and body: you should be able to move the arm freely without the shirt pulling uncomfortable on the shoulders. The body of the shirt should not be too broad and formless, it should not pull or pucker.
Headlines: The wrists should be just tight enough that they do not hang onto your hand and you should not be able to slide your hand through the cuffs without first unbuttoning.
Sleeves: When your arms are by your side, your wrist should end slightly below your wrist bones with just enough shirt sleeves to make it easy to fold your arms.
The tail Shirt: Your shirt tail should not be so long that it bunches when retracted, but the SLA.
