What's Up With Men's Dress Shirts?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 10:27am

What is it with men's dress shirts? They come wrapped in plastic, held together with numerous minute pins, and shaped with cardboard. Is all this really necessary?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 12:55pm

Yes.

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 1:07pm

Seconded.

And the pins don't hold the shirts together, they hold them to the cardboard. If the pins actually held the shirt together, they would scratch you when you wore them and set off metal detectors at the airport. Instead, they use a very thin type of string.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 1:10pm

Yes.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 1:21pm

My biggest pet peeve with men's dress shirts is the way stores tack them snugly to mannequins. It suggests the shirts are fitted when they are not. Given the amount of ill-fitting dress shirts I see hourly, I imagine this is part of the problem.

That is all.

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 2:00pm

^ My experience has been that for many brands, the package will actually say "fitted" if they are and in the absence of that, you can assume that they are not.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 2:05pm

But even so, finebydesign is right: The way clothes are pinned on mannequins (and models, too) give you no idea of how they will actually fit.

Updated On: 1/8/14 at 02:05 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 3:13pm

I feel comforted to know from the little tag inside that it was inspected by #48

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 3:17pm

^Ha, I know! Right?

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/8/14 at 3:42pm

The only pinning and attaching that bothers me is not with packaged shirts, but more casual shirts on hangers that I might want to try on in the store. They have some of them tagged/pinned in such a way that you have to remove the tags because they go through the button hole, around the button and back out in such a way that you can't unbutton the shirt to try it on. You also have to take out a dozen pins and tabs holding the collar closed, etc. Then you have to leave all this in a pile in the dressing room and return the shirt to the rack all undone.

[Scripps2]

Posted: 1/10/14 at 6:59am

I could happily see whoever invented "tailored fit/slim fit/semi-fitted/semi-slim fit" shirts hung, drawn and quartered, en flambé, on my front lawn.

These shirts seem to be for Olympic marathon runners who are 7 feet tall and whose arms come down to their knees - it makes shirt buying such an inconvenient hassle. And the colours are so dull currently too.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 1/10/14 at 9:03am

It's a liberal conspiracy. And they put all those pins in there so you are more likely to ****yourself and have to use Obamacare...